13 Bible Verses about Rewards Of Ritual

Why to Me the abundance of your sacrifices? saith Jehovah, I have been satiated with burnt-offerings of rams, And fat of fatlings; And blood of bullocks, and lambs, And he-goats I have not desired.

And -- praying -- ye may not use vain repetitions like the nations, for they think that in their much speaking they shall be heard,

with teachings manifold and strange be not carried about, for it is good that by grace the heart be confirmed, not with meats, in which they who were occupied were not profited;

ye were freed from the Christ, ye who in law are declared righteous; from the grace ye fell away;

and in vain do they worship Me, teaching teachings -- commands of men.'

let no one beguile you of your prize, delighting in humble-mindedness and in worship of the messengers, intruding into the things he hath not seen, being vainly puffed up by the mind of his flesh, and not holding the head, from which all the body -- through the joints and bands gathering supply, and being knit together -- may increase with the increase of God. If, then, ye did die with the Christ from the rudiments of the world, why, as living in the world, are ye subject to ordinances?read more.
-- thou mayest not touch, nor taste, nor handle -- which are all for destruction with the using, after the commands and teachings of men,

but if ye also should suffer because of righteousness, happy are ye! and of their fear be not afraid, nor be troubled,

'Ye do not say, A confederacy, To all to whom this people saith, A confederacy, And its fear ye do not fear, Nor declare fearful. Jehovah of Hosts -- Him ye do sanctify, And He is your Fear, and He your Dread,

Be Thou exalted, O Jehovah in, Thy strength, We sing and we praise Thy might!

for John came unto you in the way of righteousness, and ye did not believe him, and the tax-gatherers and the harlots did believe him, and ye, having seen, repented not at last -- to believe him.

For coals thou art putting on his head, And Jehovah giveth recompense to thee.

And it hath been, like people, like priest, And I have charged on it its ways, And its habitual doings I return to it.

Her heads for a bribe do judge, And her priests for hire do teach, And her prophets for silver divine, And on Jehovah they lean, saying, 'Is not Jehovah in our midst? Evil doth not come in upon us.'