Woe to you… you give a tenth of your spices-mint, dill and cumin. But you have neglected the more important matters of the law-justice, mercy and faithfulness. Matthew 23:23.
These people honor me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me. Mark 7:6.
You have let go of the commands of God and are holding on to the traditions of men.
And he laid to them: “You have a fine way of getting aside the commands of God in order to observe your own traditions. For Moses said, ‘Honor your father...’ But you say that if a man says to his father or mother: ‘Whatever help you might otherwise have received from me is Corban’ (that is, a gift devoted to God), then you no longer let him do anything for his father or mother. Thus you nullify the word of God by your tradition that you have handed down. And you do many things like that.” Mark 7:8-13.
Suppose a brother or sister is without clothes and daily food. If one of you says to him, “Go, I wish you well, keep warm and well fed,” but does nothing about his physical needs, what good is it?
In the same way, faith by itself, if it is not accompanied by action is dead. James 2: 15-17. Amen.
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