If you claim to be religious but don’t control your tongue, you are fooling yourself, and your religion is worthless (James 1:26; NLT).
What is our religion worth
If we do not love others?
What is our religion worth
If we do not spread peace?
What is our religion worth
If we don’t speak the truth in love?
What is our religion worth
If all can’t join God’s feast?
What is our religion worth
If we look down on others?
What is our religion worth
If women can’t be priests?
What is our religion worth
If we don’t practise mercy?
These questions are for everyone –
The “greatest” to the “least”.
If only you had paid attention to my commands. Then your peace would have been like a river, and your righteousness like the waves of the sea (Isaiah 48:18; CSB).
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What sorrow awaits you teachers of religious law and you Pharisees. Hypocrites! For you are careful to tithe even the tiniest income from your herb gardens, but you ignore the more important aspects of the law – justice, mercy, and faith (Matthew 23:23; NLT).
What sorrow awaits you teachers of religious law and you Pharisees. Hypocrites! For you are so careful to clean the outside of the cup and the dish, but inside you are filthy – full of greed and self-indulgence (Matthew 23:25; NLT).
Everything is pure to those whose hearts are pure. But nothing is pure to those who are corrupt and unbelieving, because their minds and consciences are corrupted. Such people claim they know God, but they deny him by the way they live. They are detestable and disobedient, worthless for doing anything good (Titus 1:15-16; NLT).
You are the salt of the earth. But what good is salt if it has lost its flavor? Can you make it salty again? It will be thrown out and trampled underfoot as worthless (Matthew 5:13; NLT).
Pure and genuine religion in the sight of God …means caring for orphans and widows in their distress and refusing to let the world corrupt you (James 1:27; NLT).