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 his neighbor as himself, is more important than all whole burnt offerings and sacrifices."

For I desire mercy, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings.

Pure religion and undefiled before our God and Father is this: to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained by the world.

He has shown you, O man, what is good. What does the LORD require of you, but to act justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God?

This is 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, and full of the Holy Spirit and of faith, and many people were added to the Lord.

a devout man, and one who feared God with all his house, who gave gifts for the needy generously to the people, and always prayed to God.

Now therefore fear the LORD, and serve him in sincerity and in truth. Put away the gods which your fathers served beyond the River, in Egypt; and serve the LORD.

so that you may approve the things that are excellent; that you may be sincere and without offense to the day of Christ;

Therefore let us keep the feast, not with old yeast, neither with the yeast of malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.

For our boasting is this: the testimony of our conscience, that with pure motives and sincerity of God, not in fleshly wisdom but in the grace of God we conducted ourselves in the world, and more abundantly toward you.

For we are not, like so many, peddling the word of God. But as of sincerity, but as of 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 his neighbor as himself, is more important than all whole burnt offerings and sacrifices."

For I desire mercy, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings.

Pure religion and undefiled before our God and Father is this: to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained by the world.

He has shown you, O man, what is good. What does the LORD require of you, but to act justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God?

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

Hezekiah did so throughout all Judah; and he worked that which was good and right and faithful before the LORD his God.

Jabez called on the God of Israel, saying, Oh that you would bless me indeed, and enlarge my border, and that your hand might be with me, and that you would keep me from evil, that it not be to my sorrow. God granted him that which he requested.

having been reminded of the unfeigned faith that is in you; which lived first in your grandmother Lois, and your mother Eunice, and, I am persuaded, in you also.

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

This is the history of the generations of Noah. Noah was a righteous man, blameless among the people of his time. Noah walked with God.

When Daniel knew that the writing was signed, he went into his house (now his windows were open in his chamber toward Jerusalem) and he kneeled on his knees three times a day, and prayed, and gave thanks before his God, as he did before.

One Ananias, a devout man according to the Law, well reported of by all the Jews who lived in Damascus,

Jesus saw Nathanael coming to him, and said about him, "Look, a true Israelite in whom there is no deceit."

He who sent me is with me. The Father hasn't left me alone, for I always do the things that are pleasing to him."

At that time there was a man in Jerusalem whose name was Simeon. This man was righteous and devout, looking for the consolation of Israel, and the Holy Spirit was on him.

and she had been a widow for about eighty-four years), who did not depart from the temple, worshipping with fastings and petitions night and day.

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