They seek Me day by day, and desire to know My ways, as a people that had done righteousness, and had not forsaken the judgment of their God; they now ask of Me righteous judgment, and desire to draw near to God,

And I will make you desolate, and your daughters round about you, in the sight of everyone that passes through.

They approach you as a people that come together, and sit before you, and hear your words, but they will not do them; for [there is] falsehood in their mouth, and their heart [goes] after their pollutions.

And you are to them as a sound of a sweet, well-tuned psaltery, and they will hear your words, but they will not do them.

Will a man insult God? For you insult Me. But you say, How have we insulted You? In that the tithes and firstfruits are with you [still].

The young man said to Him, "All these have I kept from my youth. What do I still lack?"

But he, wanting to justify himself, said to Jesus, "And who is my neighbor?"

The Pharisee stood and prayed thus with himself, 'God, I thank You that I am not like other men--swindlers, unjust, adulterers, or even like this tax collector.

I fast twice a week, I tithe [on] all things, as many as I acquire.'

For I was alive apart from the law once, but when the commandment came, sin revived, but I died.

with respect to zeal, persecuting the church; with respect to righteousness which is in the law, blameless.

having a form of godliness but denying its power. And from these people turn away!