7 Bible Verses about Rewards Of Ritual

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

be not then carried about by various and strange doctrines; for it is good that the heart be established by grace, and not in meats, in which those that have been most exact, have not profited by them.

Christ is become nothing to you, whosoever of you are seeking to be justified by the law: ye are fallen from the grace of the gospel.

but in vain do they worship me, teaching for doctrines the injunctions of men.

Let no one deprive you of your reward by an affected humility and worshipping of angels, intruding into what he hath not seen, vainly puffed up by his carnal mind; and not adhering to the head, from which all the body, being supplied and held together as by joints and bands, increaseth with the increase of God. If therefore ye be dead with Christ from the elements of the world; why, as if living in the world, are ye subject to ceremonial ordinances,read more.
(such as "touch not, taste not, handle not," which all tend to corruption in the using,) according to the commandments and doctrines of men?

But if ye should even suffer for righteousness sake, happy are ye: and therefore be not afraid of their menaces, neither be troubled; but sanctify the Lord God in your hearts:

for John came unto you in the way of righteousness, and ye did not believe him; but publicans and harlots believed him; and though ye saw that, ye did not repent afterwards, to believe him.