Jesus replied: You are nothing but show-offs! The prophet Isaiah was right when he wrote that God had said, “All of you praise me with your words, but you never really think about me… Mark 7:6 (CEV)
Anyone who
sets himself up as “religious” by talking a good game is self-deceived.
This kind of religion is hot air and only hot air. Real religion, the
kind that passes muster before God the Father, is this: Reach out to the
homeless and loveless in their plight, and guard against corruption
from the godless world. James 1:27 (the message)
sets himself up as “religious” by talking a good game is self-deceived.
This kind of religion is hot air and only hot air. Real religion, the
kind that passes muster before God the Father, is this: Reach out to the
homeless and loveless in their plight, and guard against corruption
from the godless world. James 1:27 (the message)
Pure and undefiled religion before God and the Father is this: to visit orphans and widows in their trouble, and to keep oneself unspotted from the world. James 1:27 (NKJV)
