6 Bible Verses about True Religion

and to love him with all the heart, and with all the intelligence, and with all the soul, and with all the strength, and to love one's neighbour as one's self, is more than all the burnt-offerings and sacrifices.

For I delight in loving-kindness, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more than burnt-offerings.

Pure and undefiled religion before God and the Father is this: to visit orphans and widows in their affliction, to keep oneself unspotted from the world.

He hath shewn thee, O man, what is good: and what doth Jehovah require of thee, but to do justly, and to love goodness, and to walk humbly with thy God?

Let us hear the end of the whole matter: Fear God, and keep his commandments; for this is the whole of man.

for he was a good man and full of the Holy Spirit and of faith; and a large crowd of people were added to the Lord.

pious, and fearing God with all his house, both giving much alms to the people, and supplicating God continually,

And now fear Jehovah and serve him in perfectness and in truth; and put away the gods which your fathers served on the other side of the river, and in Egypt; and serve Jehovah.

that ye may judge of and approve the things that are more excellent, in order that ye may be pure and without offence for Christ's day,

so that let us celebrate the feast, not with old leaven, nor with leaven of malice and wickedness, but with unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.

For our boasting is this, the testimony of our conscience, that in simplicity and sincerity before God, (not in fleshly wisdom but in God's grace,) we have had our conversation in the world, and more abundantly towards you.

For we do not, as the many, make a trade of the word of God; but as of sincerity, but as of God, before God, we speak in Christ.

and to love him with all the heart, and with all the intelligence, and with all the soul, and with all the strength, and to love one's neighbour as one's self, is more than all the burnt-offerings and sacrifices.

For I delight in loving-kindness, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more than burnt-offerings.

Pure and undefiled religion before God and the Father is this: to visit orphans and widows in their affliction, to keep oneself unspotted from the world.

He hath shewn thee, O man, what is good: and what doth Jehovah require of thee, but to do justly, and to love goodness, and to walk humbly with thy God?

Let us hear the end of the whole matter: Fear God, and keep his commandments; for this is the whole of man.

And thus did Hezekiah throughout Judah, and wrought what was good and right and true before Jehovah his God.

And Jabez called on the God of Israel saying, Oh that thou wouldest richly bless me, and enlarge my border, and that thy hand might be with me, and that thou wouldest keep me from evil, that it may not grieve me! And God brought about what he had requested.

calling to mind the unfeigned faith which has been in thee, which dwelt first in thy grandmother Lois, and in thy mother Eunice, and I am persuaded that in thee also.

And Enoch walked with God; and he was not, for God took him.

This is the history of Noah. Noah was a just man, perfect amongst his generations: Noah walked with God.

And when Daniel knew that the writing was signed, he went into his house; and, his windows being open in his upper chamber toward Jerusalem, he kneeled on his knees three times a day, and prayed and gave thanks before his God, as he did aforetime.

And a certain Ananias, a pious man according to the law, borne witness to by all the Jews who dwelt there,

Jesus saw Nathanael coming to him, and says of him, Behold one truly an Israelite, in whom there is no guile.

And he that has sent me is with me; he has not left me alone, because I do always the things that are pleasing to him.

And behold, there was a man in Jerusalem whose name was Simeon; and this man was just and pious, awaiting the consolation of Israel, and the Holy Spirit was upon him.

and herself a widow up to eighty-four years; who did not depart from the temple, serving night and day with fastings and prayers;

There was a man in the land of Uz whose name was Job; and this man was perfect and upright, and one that feared God and abstained from evil.