Matthew 15:9

Matthew 15:9
But their worship is to no purpose, while they give as their teaching the rules of men.

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1 Samuel 16:7
But the Lord said to Samuel, Do not take note of his face or how tall he is, because I will not have him: for the Lord's view is not man's; man takes note of the outer form, but the Lord sees the heart.

Isaiah 44:20
As for him whose food is the dust of a dead fire, he has been turned from the way by a twisted mind, so that he is unable to keep himself safe by saying, What I have here in my hand is false.

Ezekiel 33:31
And they come to you as my people come, and are seated before you as my people, hearing your words but doing them not: for deceit is in their mouth and their heart goes after profit for themselves.

Matthew 6:1
Take care not to do your good works before men, to be seen by them; or you will have no reward from your Father in heaven.

Matthew 6:5
And when you make your prayers, be not like the false-hearted men, who take pleasure in getting up and saying their prayers in the Synagogues and at the street turnings so that they may be seen by men. Truly I say to you, They have their reward.

Matthew 6:7
And in your prayer do not make use of the same words again and again, as the Gentiles do: for they have the idea that God will give attention to them because of the number of their words.

Matthew 9:14
Then the disciples of John came to him, saying, Why do we and the Pharisees frequently go without food, but your disciples do not?

Matthew 23:24
You blind guides, who take out a fly from your drink, but make no trouble over a camel.

Luke 18:12
Twice in the week I go without food; I give a tenth of all I have.

Galatians 1:14
And I went farther in the Jews' religion than a number of my generation among my countrymen, having a more burning interest in the beliefs handed down from my fathers.

Philippians 3:6
In bitter hate I was cruel to the church; I kept all the righteousness of the law to the last detail.

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1 Chronicles 28:11
Then David gave to his son Solomon the design of the doorway of the house of God and of its houses and its store-houses, and the higher rooms and the inner rooms and the place for the mercy-seat;

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1 Chronicles 28:19
All this, said David, the design for all these things, has been made dear to me in writing by the hand of the Lord.

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Psalms 50:15
Let your voice come up to me in the day of trouble; I will be your saviour, so that you may give glory to me.

Psalms 50:21
These things have you done, and I said nothing; it seemed to you that I was such a one as yourself; but I will make a protest against you, and put them in order before your eyes.

Proverbs 15:8
The offering of the evil-doer is disgusting to the Lord, but the prayer of the upright man is his delight.

Isaiah 1:14
Your new moons and your regular feasts are a grief to my soul: they are a weight in my spirit; I am crushed under them.

Isaiah 58:1
Make a loud cry, do not be quiet, let your voice be sounding like a horn, and make clear to my people their evil doings, and to the family of Jacob their sins.

Isaiah 66:3
He who puts an ox to death puts a man to death; he who makes an offering of a lamb puts a dog to death; he who makes a meal offering makes an offering of pig's blood; he who makes an offering of perfumes for a sign gives worship to an image: as they have gone after their desires, and their soul takes pleasure in their disgusting things;

Hosea 6:6
Because my desire is for mercy and not offerings; for the knowledge of God more than for burned offerings.

Amos 4:5
Let that which is leavened be burned as a praise-offering, let the news of your free offerings be given out publicly; for this is pleasing to you, O children of Israel, says the Lord.

John 4:23
But the time is coming, and is even now here, when the true worshippers will give worship to the Father in the true way of the spirit, for these are the worshippers desired by the Father.

James 4:3
You make your request but you do not get it, because your request has been wrongly made, desiring the thing only so that you may make use of it for your pleasure.

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Psalms 73:13
As for me, I have made my heart clean to no purpose, washing my hands in righteousness;

1 Corinthians 15:14
And if Christ did not come again from the dead, then our good news and your faith in it are of no effect.

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Matthew 23:13
But a curse is on you, scribes and Pharisees, false ones! because you are shutting the kingdom of heaven against men: for you do not go in yourselves, and those who are going in, you keep back.

Mark 7:6
And he said, Well did Isaiah say of you, you false ones: These people give me honour with their lips, but their heart is far from me.

Mark 7:9
And he said to them, Truly you put on one side the law of God, so that you may keep the rules which have been handed down to you.

Mark 7:10
For Moses said, Give honour to your father and mother, and, He who says evil of father or mother, let him have the punishment of death:

Mark 7:11
But you say, If a man says to his father or his mother, That by which you might have had profit from me is Corban, that is to say, Given to God,

Mark 7:12
You no longer let him do anything for his father or his mother;

Mark 7:13
Making the word of God of no effect by your rule, which you have given: and a number of other such things you do.

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Colossians 2:8
Take care that no one takes you away by force, through man's wisdom and deceit, going after the beliefs of men and the theories of the world, and not after Christ:

Colossians 2:18
Let no man take your reward from you by consciously making little of himself and giving worship to angels; having his thoughts fixed on the things which he has seen, being foolishly lifted up in his natural mind,

Colossians 2:20
If you were made free, by your death with Christ, from the rules of the world, why do you put yourselves under the authority of orders

Colossians 2:23
These things seem to have a sort of wisdom in self-ordered worship and making little of oneself, and being cruel to the body, not honouring it by giving it its natural use.

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1 Timothy 1:4
Or to give attention to stories and long lists of generations, from which come questionings and doubts, in place of God's ordered way of life which is in faith;

1 Timothy 4:1
But the Spirit says clearly that in later times some will be turned away from the faith, giving their minds to spirits of deceit, and the teachings of evil spirits,

1 Timothy 4:6
If you keep these things before the minds of the brothers, you will be a good servant of Christ Jesus, trained in the words of the faith and of the right teaching which has been your guide:

1 Timothy 4:7
But have nothing to do with unclean and foolish stories. Give yourself training in religion:

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