Yet they seek me daily, and delight to know my ways, as a nation that did righteousness, and forsook not the ordinance of their God: they ask of me the ordinances of justice; they take delight in approaching to God.

Moreover I will make thee waste, and a reproach among the nations that are round about thee, in the sight of all that pass by.

And they come unto thee as the people cometh, and they sit before thee as my people, and they hear thy words, but they will not do them: for with their mouth they shew much love, but their heart goeth after their covetousness.

And, lo, thou art unto them as a very lovely song of one that hath a pleasant voice, and can play well on an instrument: for they hear thy words, but they do them not.

Will a man rob God? Yet ye have robbed me. But ye say, Wherein have we robbed thee? In tithes and offerings.

The young man saith unto him, All these things have I kept from my youth up: what lack I yet?

But he, willing to justify himself, said unto Jesus, And who is my neighbour?

The Pharisee stood and prayed thus with himself, God, I thank thee, that I am not as other men are, extortioners, unjust, adulterers, or even as this publican.

I fast twice in the week, I give tithes of all that I possess.

For I was alive without the law once: but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died.

Concerning zeal, persecuting the church; touching the righteousness which is in the law, blameless.

Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away.