6 Bible Verses about True Religion

And to love him with all your heart, with all your mind, and with all your strength and to love your neighbor as yourself is more important than all burnt offerings and sacrifices."

For I delight in faithfulness, not simply in sacrifice; I delight in acknowledging God, not simply in whole burnt offerings.

Pure and undefiled religion before God the Father is this: to care for orphans and widows in their misfortune and to keep oneself unstained by the world.

He has told you, O man, what is good, and what the Lord really wants from you: He wants you to promote justice, to be faithful, and to live obediently before your God.

Having heard everything, I have reached this conclusion: Fear God and keep his commandments, because this is the whole duty of man.

because he was a good man, full of the Holy Spirit and of faith, and a significant number of people were brought to the Lord.

He was a devout, God-fearing man, as was all his household; he did many acts of charity for the people and prayed to God regularly.

Now obey the Lord and worship him with integrity and loyalty. Put aside the gods your ancestors worshiped beyond the Euphrates and in Egypt and worship the Lord.

so that you can decide what is best, and thus be sincere and blameless for the day of Christ,

So then, let us celebrate the festival, not with the old yeast, the yeast of vice and evil, but with the bread without yeast, the bread of sincerity and truth.

For our reason for confidence is this: the testimony of our conscience, that with pure motives and sincerity which are from God -- not by human wisdom but by the grace of God -- we conducted ourselves in the world, and all the more toward you.

For we are not like so many others, hucksters who peddle the word of God for profit, but we are speaking in Christ before God as persons of sincerity, as persons sent from God.

And to love him with all your heart, with all your mind, and with all your strength and to love your neighbor as yourself is more important than all burnt offerings and sacrifices."

For I delight in faithfulness, not simply in sacrifice; I delight in acknowledging God, not simply in whole burnt offerings.

Pure and undefiled religion before God the Father is this: to care for orphans and widows in their misfortune and to keep oneself unstained by the world.

He has told you, O man, what is good, and what the Lord really wants from you: He wants you to promote justice, to be faithful, and to live obediently before your God.

Having heard everything, I have reached this conclusion: Fear God and keep his commandments, because this is the whole duty of man.

This is what Hezekiah did throughout Judah. He did what the Lord his God considered good and right and faithful.

Jabez called out to the God of Israel, "If only you would greatly bless me and expand my territory! May your hand be with me! Keep me from harm so I might not endure pain!" God answered his prayer.

I recall your sincere faith that was alive first in your grandmother Lois and in your mother Eunice, and I am sure is in you.

Enoch walked with God, and then he disappeared because God took him away.

This is the account of Noah. Noah was a godly man; he was blameless among his contemporaries. He walked with God.

When Daniel realized that a written decree had been issued, he entered his home, where the windows in his upper room opened toward Jerusalem. Three times daily he was kneeling and offering prayers and thanks to his God just as he had been accustomed to do previously.

A man named Ananias, a devout man according to the law, well spoken of by all the Jews who live there,

Jesus saw Nathanael coming toward him and exclaimed, "Look, a true Israelite in whom there is no deceit!"

And the one who sent me is with me. He has not left me alone, because I always do those things that please him."

Now there was a man in Jerusalem named Simeon who was righteous and devout, looking for the restoration of Israel, and the Holy Spirit was upon him.

She had lived as a widow since then for eighty-four years. She never left 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 pure and upright, one who feared God and turned away from evil.