Yet they seek Me daily, and delight to know My ways, as a nation that did righteousness, and did not forsake the ordinance of their God. They ask of Me the ordinances of justice; they take delight in drawing near to God.

Moreover I will make you a waste and a reproach among the nations that are all around you, in the eyes of all who pass by.

So they come to you as people do, they sit before you as My people, and they hear your words, but they do not do them; for with their mouth they act out love, but their hearts go after their unjust gain.

Indeed you are to them as a singer of love songs, as one who has a pleasant voice and can play well on an instrument; for they hear your words, but they do not do them.

Will a man rob God? Yet you have robbed Me. But you say, How have we robbed You? In the tithe and the offering.

The young man said to Him, All these things I have 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 to himself, God, I thank You that I am not like other men; extortioners, unjust, adulterers, or even as this tax collector.

I fast twice a week; I give tithes of all that I possess.

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

concerning zeal, persecuting the church; concerning the righteousness which is in the Law, blameless.

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