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Isaiah 29:13
The Lord said: These people approach me with their speeches to honor me with lip-service, yet their hearts are far from me, and human rules direct their worship of me.
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Mark 7:7
They worship me in vain, teaching as doctrines human commands.
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1 Timothy 1 4
or to pay attention to myths and endless genealogies. These promote empty speculations rather than God’s plan, which operates by faith.
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Colossians 2:18-22
Let no one condemn you by delighting in ascetic practices and the worship of angels, claiming access to a visionary realm. Such people are inflated by empty notions of their unspiritual mind.He doesn’t hold on to the head, from whom the whole body, nourished and held together by its ligaments and tendons, grows with growth from God.If you died with Christ to the elements of this world, why do you live as if you still belonged to the world? Why do you submit to regulations:“ Don’t handle, don’t taste, don’t touch”?All these regulations refer to what is destined to perish by being used up; they are human commands and doctrines.
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Titus 1:14
and may not pay attention to Jewish myths and the commands of people who reject the truth.
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Hebrews 13:9
Don’t be led astray by various kinds of strange teachings; for it is good for the heart to be established by grace and not by food regulations, since those who observe them have not benefited.
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James 2:20
Senseless person! Are you willing to learn that faith without works is useless?
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1 Samuel 25 21
David had just said,“ I guarded everything that belonged to this man in the wilderness for nothing. He was not missing anything, yet he paid me back evil for good.
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Leviticus 26:16
then I will do this to you: I will bring terror on you— wasting disease and fever that will cause your eyes to fail and your life to ebb away. You will sow your seed in vain because your enemies will eat it.
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Isaiah 58:1-3
“ Cry out loudly, don’t hold back! Raise your voice like a ram’s horn. Tell my people their transgression and the house of Jacob their sins.They seek me day after day and delight to know my ways, like a nation that does what is right and does not abandon the justice of their God. They ask me for righteous judgments; they delight in the nearness of God.”“ Why have we fasted, but you have not seen? We have denied ourselves, but you haven’t noticed!”“ Look, you do as you please on the day of your fast, and oppress all your workers.
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Psalms 73:13
Did I purify my heart and wash my hands in innocence for nothing?
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Proverbs 30:5-6
Every word of God is pure; he is a shield to those who take refuge in him.Don’t add to his words, or he will rebuke you, and you will be proved a liar.
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1 Timothy 4 6-1 Timothy 4 7
If you point these things out to the brothers and sisters, you will be a good servant of Christ Jesus, nourished by the words of the faith and the good teaching that you have followed.But have nothing to do with pointless and silly myths. Rather, train yourself in godliness.
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Deuteronomy 12:32
Be careful to do everything I command you; do not add anything to it or take anything away from it.
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Revelation 22:18
I testify to everyone who hears the words of the prophecy of this book: If anyone adds to them, God will add to him the plagues that are written in this book.
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Leviticus 26:20
and your strength will be used up for nothing. Your land will not yield its produce, and the trees of the land will not bear their fruit.
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1 Timothy 4 1-1 Timothy 4 3
Now the Spirit explicitly says that in later times some will depart from the faith, paying attention to deceitful spirits and the teachings of demons,through the hypocrisy of liars whose consciences are seared.They forbid marriage and demand abstinence from foods that God created to be received with gratitude by those who believe and know the truth.
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Malachi 3:14
You have said,“ It is useless to serve God. What have we gained by keeping his requirements and walking mournfully before the LORD of Armies?
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Exodus 20:7
Do not misuse the name of the LORD your God, because the LORD will not leave anyone unpunished who misuses his name.
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Isaiah 1:13-15
Stop bringing useless offerings. Your incense is detestable to me. New Moons and Sabbaths, and the calling of solemn assemblies— I cannot stand iniquity with a festival.I hate your New Moons and prescribed festivals. They have become a burden to me; I am tired of putting up with them.When you spread out your hands in prayer, I will refuse to look at you; even if you offer countless prayers, I will not listen. Your hands are covered with blood.
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Ecclesiastes 5:2-7
Do not be hasty to speak, and do not be impulsive to make a speech before God. God is in heaven and you are on earth, so let your words be few.Just as dreams accompany much labor, so also a fool’s voice comes with many words.When you make a vow to God, don’t delay fulfilling it, because he does not delight in fools. Fulfill what you vow.Better that you do not vow than that you vow and not fulfill it.Do not let your mouth bring guilt on you, and do not say in the presence of the messenger that it was a mistake. Why should God be angry with your words and destroy the work of your hands?For many dreams bring futility; so do many words. Therefore, fear God.
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Psalms 39:6
Yes, a person goes about like a mere shadow. Indeed, they rush around in vain, gathering possessions without knowing who will get them.
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1 Corinthians 15 2
and by which you are being saved, if you hold to the message I preached to you— unless you believed in vain.