Isaiah 1:11-
15 To
what purpose [
is] the multitude of your sacrifices unto me? saith the LORD: I am full of the burnt offerings of rams, and the fat of fed beasts; and I delight not in the blood of bullocks, or of lambs, or of he goats. ... And
when ye spread forth
your hands,
I will hide mine eyes from you: yea, when ye
make many prayers, I will not hear: your hands are full of
blood.
Isaiah 58:2-
6 Yet
they seek me daily, and delight to know my ways, as a nation that did righteousness, and forsook not the ordinance of their God:
they ask of me the ordinances of justice; they take delight in approaching to God. ... [
Is] not this the fast that I have chosen?
to loose the bands of wickedness, to undo the
heavy burdens, and to let the oppressed go free, and that ye break every yoke?
Isaiah 59:6-
8 Their
webs shall not become garments,
neither shall they cover themselves with
their works: their works [
are] works of iniquity, and the act of violence [
is] in their hands. ... The
way of peace they know not; and [
there is]
no judgment in their goings: they have made them
crooked paths:
whosoever goeth therein shall not know peace.
Isaiah 64:5 Thou
meetest him that
rejoiceth and worketh righteousness,
[those that] remember thee in thy ways: behold,
thou art wroth; for we have sinned:
in those is continuance, and we shall be saved.
Isaiah 66:3-
4 He that
killeth an ox [
is as if] he slew a man; he that sacrificeth a
lamb, [
as if] he cut off a dog's neck; he that offereth an oblation,
[as if he offered] swine's blood; he that
burneth incense, [
as if] he blessed an idol. Yea,
they have chosen their own ways, and their soul delighteth in their abominations. ... I also
will choose their
delusions, and will bring their fears upon them; because
when I called, none did answer; when I spake,
they did not hear: but they did evil before mine eyes, and chose [
that] in which I delighted not.
Jeremiah 7:4-
11 Trust ye not in lying words, saying,
The temple of the LORD, The temple of the LORD, The temple of the LORD, [
are] these. ... Is
this house, which is called by my name, become a den of robbers in your eyes? Behold,
even I have seen [
it], saith the LORD.
Micah 3:2-
4 Who
hate the good, and
love the evil; who
pluck off their skin from off them, and their flesh from off their bones; ...
Then shall they
cry unto the LORD, but he will not hear them:
he will even hide his face from them at that time,
as they have behaved themselves ill in their doings.
Matthew 23:5 But
all their works they do for to be seen of men:
they make broad their phylacteries, and enlarge
the borders of their garments,
Matthew 23:14 Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites!
for ye devour widows' houses, and for a pretence make
long prayer:
therefore ye shall receive the greater damnation.
Romans 3:10-
20 As it is written,
There is
none righteous, no, not one: ...
Therefore by the deeds of the law there shall
no flesh be justified
in his sight:
for by the law [
is] the knowledge of sin.
Romans 10:2-
3 For
I bear them record
that they have a zeal of God,
but not according to knowledge. ... For they being ignorant of
God's righteousness, and going about
to establish their own righteousness, have not
submitted themselves unto the righteousness of God.
