Truth in Worship
MATTHEW 15:7-9
7 Ye hypocrites, well did Esaias prophesy of you, saying, 8 This people draweth nigh unto me with their mouth, and honoureth me with their lips; but their heart is far from me. 9 But in vain they do worship me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men.
MARK 7:7-9
7 Howbeit in vain do they worship me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men. 8 For laying aside the commandment of God, ye hold the tradition of men, as the washing of pots and cups: and many other such like things ye do. 9 And he said unto them, Full well ye reject the commandment of God, that ye may keep your own tradition.
EXODUS 34:6
And the LORD passed by before him, and proclaimed, The LORD, The LORD God, merciful and gracious, longsuffering, and abundant in goodness and truth,
DEUTERONOMY 13:14
Then shalt thou enquire, and make search, and ask diligently; and, behold, if it be truth, and the thing certain, that such abomination is wrought among you;
DEUTERONOMY 32:4
He is the Rock, his work is perfect: for all his ways are judgment: a God of truth and without iniquity, just and right is he.
JOSHUA 24:14
Now therefore fear the LORD, and serve him in sincerity and in truth: and put away the gods which your fathers served on the other side of the flood, and in Egypt; and serve ye the LORD.
1 SAMUEL 12:24
Only fear the LORD, and serve him in truth with all your heart: for consider how great things he hath done for you.
Psalms 15:1-2
1 LORD, who shall abide in thy tabernacle? who shall dwell in thy holy hill? 2 He that walketh uprightly, and worketh righteousness, and speaketh the truth in his heart.
PSALM 25:5
Lead me in thy truth, and teach me: for thou art the God of my salvation; on thee do I wait all the day.
PSALM 25:10
All the paths of the LORD are mercy and truth unto such as keep his covenant and his testimonies.
PSALM 26:3
For thy lovingkindness is before mine eyes: and I have walked in thy truth.
PSALM 71:22
I will also praise thee with the psaltery, even thy truth, O my God: unto thee will I sing with the harp, O thou Holy One of Israel.
PSALM 145:18
The LORD is nigh unto all them that call upon him, to all that call upon him in truth.
PSALM 146:6
Which made heaven, and earth, the sea, and all that therein is: which keepeth truth for ever:
PROVERBS 3:3
Let not mercy and truth forsake thee: bind them about thy neck; write them upon the table of thine heart:
PROVERBS 23:23
Buy the truth, and sell it not; also wisdom, and instruction, and understanding.
ECCLESIASTES 12:10
The preacher sought to find out acceptable words: and that which was written was upright, even words of truth.
JOHN 1:17
For the law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ.
JOHN 4:23-24
23 But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth: for the Father seeketh such to worship him. 24 God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth.
John 8:31-32
31 Then said Jesus to those Jews which believed on him, If ye continue in my word, then are ye my disciples indeed; 32 And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.
John 14:15-17
15 If ye love me, keep my commandments. 16 And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you for ever; 17 Even the Spirit of truth; whom the world cannot receive, because it seeth him not, neither knoweth him: but ye know him; for he dwelleth with you, and shall be in you.
JOHN 17:17
Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth.
1 CORINTHIANS 13:6
Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth;
The two essential ingredients, which when joined together, comprise truth.
John 17:17
17 Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth.
1 JOHN 5:6
This is he that came by water and blood, even Jesus Christ; not by water only, but by water and blood. And it is the Spirit that beareth witness, because the Spirit is truth.
1 JOHN 4:6
We are of God: he that knoweth God heareth us; he that is not of God heareth not us. Hereby know we the spirit of truth, and the spirit of error.
Only when God's Word is quickened, or made alive, by His Spirit is truth present. Any pope, priest, preacher, pastor, prophet, or organization can make the Word of God say what they want it to say. But only when the Spirit of the Lord is speaking clearly through His Word, without man-made interpretations and applications, can truth be found.
