6 Bible Verses about True Religion

And to love him with all the heart and with all the understanding and with all the strength, and to love one's neighbor as oneself, is much more than all whole burnt offerings and sacrifices."

For I desire steadfast love and not sacrifice, the knowledge of God rather than burnt offerings.

Religion that is pure and undefiled before God, the Father, is this: to visit orphans and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained from the world.

He has told you, O man, what is good; and what does the LORD require of you but to do justice, and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your God?

The end of the matter; all has been heard. Fear God and keep his commandments, for this is the whole duty of man.

for he was a good man, full of the Holy Spirit and of faith. And a great many people were added to the Lord.

a devout man who feared God with all his household, gave alms generously to the people, and prayed continually to God.

"Now therefore fear the LORD and serve him in sincerity and in faithfulness. Put away the gods that your fathers served beyond the River and in Egypt, and serve the LORD.

so that you may approve what is excellent, and so be pure and blameless for the day of Christ,

Let us therefore celebrate the festival, not with the old leaven, the leaven of malice and evil, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.

For our boast is this, the testimony of our conscience, that we behaved in the world with simplicity and godly sincerity, not by earthly wisdom but by the grace of God, and supremely so toward you.

For we are not, like so many, peddlers of God's word, but as men of sincerity, as commissioned by God, in the sight of God we speak in Christ.

And to love him with all the heart and with all the understanding and with all the strength, and to love one's neighbor as oneself, is much more than all whole burnt offerings and sacrifices."

For I desire steadfast love and not sacrifice, the knowledge of God rather than burnt offerings.

Religion that is pure and undefiled before God, the Father, is this: to visit orphans and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained from the world.

He has told you, O man, what is good; and what does the LORD require of you but to do justice, and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your God?

The end of the matter; all has been heard. Fear God and keep his commandments, for this is the whole duty of man.

Thus Hezekiah did throughout all Judah, and he did what was good and right and faithful before the LORD his God.

Jabez called upon the God of Israel, saying, "Oh that you would bless me and enlarge my border, and that your hand might be with me, and that you would keep me from harm so that it might not bring me pain!" And God granted what he asked.

I am reminded of your sincere faith, a faith that dwelt first in your grandmother Lois and your mother Eunice and now, I am sure, dwells in you as well.

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

These are the generations of Noah. Noah was a righteous man, blameless in his generation. Noah walked with God.

When Daniel knew that the document had been signed, he went to his house where he had windows in his upper chamber open toward Jerusalem. He got down on his knees three times a day and prayed and gave thanks before his God, as he had done previously.

"And one Ananias, a devout man according to the law, well spoken of by all the Jews who lived there,

Jesus saw Nathanael coming toward him and said of him, "Behold, an Israelite indeed, in whom there is no deceit!"

And he who sent me is with me. He has not left me alone, for I always do the things that are pleasing to him."

Now there was a man in Jerusalem, whose name was Simeon, and this man was righteous and devout, waiting for the consolation of Israel, and the Holy Spirit was upon him.

and then as a widow until she was eighty-four. She did not depart from the temple, worshiping with fasting and prayer night and day.

There was a man in the land of Uz whose name was Job, and that man was blameless and upright, one who feared God and turned away from evil.