Quotes About Sincerity

for he is keeping track, inwardly counting the cost. “Eat and drink,” he says to you, but his heart is not with you.

When you come to appear before Me, who has required this of you—this trampling of My courts?

Bring your worthless offerings no more; your incense is detestable to Me—your New Moons, Sabbaths, and convocations. I cannot endure iniquity in a solemn assembly.

Therefore the Lord said: “These people draw near to Me with their mouths and honor Me with their lips, but their hearts are far from Me. Their worship of Me is but rules taught by men.

He who walks righteously and speaks with sincerity, who refuses gain from extortion, whose hand never takes a bribe, who stops his ears against murderous plots and shuts his eyes tightly against evil—

Do not trust in deceptive words, chanting: ëThis is the temple of the LORD, the temple of the LORD, the temple of the LORD.í

and then come and stand before Me in this house, which bears My Name, and say, ëWe are delivered, so we can continue with all these abominationsí?

Bring your confessions and return to the LORD. Say to Him: “Take away all our iniquity and receive us graciously, that we may present the fruit of our lips.

“I hate, I despise your feasts! I cannot stand the stench of your solemn assemblies.

Take away from Me the noise of your songs! I will not listen to the music of your harps.

“Ask all the people of the land and the priests, ëWhen you fasted and mourned in the fifth and seventh months for these seventy years, was it really for Me that you fasted?

And when you pray, do not be like the hypocrites. For they love to pray standing in the synagogues and on the street corners to be seen by men. Truly I tell you, they already have their full reward.

And when you pray, do not babble on like pagans, for they think that by their many words they will be heard.

When you fast, do not be somber like the hypocrites, for they disfigure their faces to show men they are fasting. Truly I tell you, they already have their full reward.

But when you fast, anoint your head and wash your face,

Not everyone who says to Me, ëLord, Lord,í will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only he who does the will of My Father in heaven.

ëThese people honor Me with their lips, but their hearts are far from Me.

All their deeds are done for men to see. They broaden their phylacteries and lengthen their tassels.

Jesus answered them, “Isaiah prophesied correctly about you hypocrites, as it is written: ëThese people honor Me with their lips, but their hearts are far from Me.

So they watched Him closely and sent spies who pretended to be sincere. They were hoping to catch Him in His words in order to hand Him over to the rule and authority of the governor.

But Jesus saw through their duplicity and said to them,

God is Spirit, and His worshipers must worship Him in spirit and in truth.”

With one accord they continued to meet daily in the temple courts and to break bread from house to house, sharing their meals with gladness and sincerity of heart,

I speak the truth in Christ; I am not lying, as confirmed by my conscience in the Holy Spirit.