13 Bible Verses about Rewards Of Ritual

To what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices to me? saith the LORD: I am full of the burnt-offerings of rams, and the fat of fed beasts; and I delight not in the blood of bullocks, or of lambs, or of he-goats.

But when ye pray, use not vain repetitions, as the heathen do: for they think that they shall be heard for their much speaking.

Be not carried about with divers and strange doctrines: for it is a good thing that the heart be established with grace; not with meats, which have not profited them that have been occupied in them.

Christ is become of no effect to you, whoever of you are justified by the law; ye have fallen from grace.

But in vain they do worship me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men.

Let no man beguile you of your reward in a voluntary humility and worshiping of angels, intruding into those things which he hath not seen, vainly puffed up by his fleshly mind, And not holding the head, from which all the body by joints and bands having nourishment ministered, and knit together, increaseth with the increase of God. Wherefore, if ye are dead with Christ from the rudiments of the world, why, as though living in the world, are ye subject to ordinances,read more.
(Touch not; taste not; handle not; Which all are to perish with the using;) according to the commandments and doctrines of men?

But if ye suffer for righteousness' sake, happy are ye: and be not afraid of their terror, neither be troubled;

Say ye not, A confederacy, to all them to whom this people shall say, A confederacy; neither fear ye their fear, nor be afraid. Sanctify the LORD of hosts himself; and let him be your fear, and let him be your dread.

Be thou exalted, LORD, in thy own strength: so will we sing and praise thy power.

For John came to you in the way of righteousness, and ye believed him not: but the publicans and the harlots believed him: and ye, when ye had seen it, repented not afterward, that ye might believe him.

For thou shalt heap coals of fire upon his head, and the LORD will reward thee.

And there shall be, like people, like priest: and I will punish them for their ways, and reward them their doings.

Her heads judge for reward, and her priests teach for hire, and her prophets divine for money; yet will they lean upon the LORD, and say, Is not the LORD among us? no evil can come upon us.