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 himself, is much more than all burnt offerings and sacrifices.”

For I delight in loyalty rather than sacrifice,
And in the knowledge of God rather than burnt offerings.

Pure and undefiled religion in the sight of our God and Father is this: to visit orphans and widows in their distress, and to keep oneself unstained by the world.

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

The conclusion, when all has been heard, is: fear God and keep His commandments, because this applies to every person.

for he was a good man, and full of the Holy Spirit and of faith. And considerable numbers were brought to the Lord.

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

“Now, therefore, fear the Lord and serve Him in sincerity and truth; and put away the gods which your fathers served beyond the River and in Egypt, and serve the Lord.

so that you may approve the things that are excellent, in order to be sincere and blameless until the day of Christ;

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

For our proud confidence is this: the testimony of our conscience, that in holiness and godly sincerity, not in fleshly wisdom but in the grace of God, we have conducted ourselves in the world, and especially toward you.

For we are not like many, peddling the word of God, but as from sincerity, but as from God, we speak in Christ in the sight of God.

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 himself, is much more than all burnt offerings and sacrifices.”

For I delight in loyalty rather than sacrifice,
And in the knowledge of God rather than burnt offerings.

Pure and undefiled religion in the sight of our God and Father is this: to visit orphans and widows in their distress, and to keep oneself unstained by the world.

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

The conclusion, when all has been heard, is: fear God and keep His commandments, because this applies to every person.

Thus Hezekiah did throughout all Judah; and he did what was good, right and true before the Lord his God.

Now 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 harm that it may not pain me!” And God granted him what he requested.

For I am mindful of the sincere faith within you, which first dwelt in your grandmother Lois and your mother Eunice, and I am sure that it is in you as well.

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

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

Now when Daniel knew that the document was signed, he entered his house (now in his roof chamber he had windows open toward Jerusalem); and he continued kneeling on his knees three times a day, praying and giving thanks before his God, as he had been doing previously.

“A certain Ananias, a man who was devout by the standard of the Law, and well spoken of by all the Jews who lived there,

Jesus saw Nathanael coming to 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.”

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

and then as a widow to the age of eighty-four. She never left the temple, serving night and day with fastings and prayers.

There was a man in the land of Uz whose name was Job; and that man was blameless, upright, fearing God and turning away from evil.