Bible verses about "religion" | CLV

⁵⁰ This is the Bread which is descending out of heaven that anyone may be eating of it and may not be dying. ⁵¹ I am the living Bread which descends out of heaven. If anyone should be eating of this Bread, he shall be living for the eon. Now the Bread also, which I shall be giving for the sake of the life of the world, is My flesh." ⁵² The Jews, then, fought with one another, saying, "How then can this one give us his flesh to eat? ⁵³ Jesus, then, said to them, "Verily, verily, I am saying to you, If you should not be eating the flesh of the Son of Mankind and drinking His blood, you have no eonian life in yourselves." ⁵⁴ He who is masticating My flesh and drinking My blood has life eonian, and I shall be raising him in the last day, ⁵⁵ for My flesh is true food, and My blood is true drink." ⁵⁶ He who is masticating My flesh and drinking My blood is remaining in Me, and I in him." ⁵⁷ According as the living Father commissions Me, I, also, am living because of the Father. And he who is masticating Me, he also will be living because of Me." ⁵⁸ This is the Bread which descends out of heaven. Not according as the fathers ate and died; he who is masticating this Bread shall be living for the eon." ⁵⁹ These things He said, teaching in a synagogue in Capernaum." ⁶⁰ Many of His disciples, then, hearing it, said, "Hard is this saying! Who can hear it? ⁶¹ Now Jesus, being aware in Himself that His disciples are murmuring concerning this, said to them, "This is snaring you? ⁶² If, then, you should be beholding the Son of Mankind ascending where He was formerly - ? ⁶³ The Spirit is that which is vivifying. The flesh is not benefiting anything. The declarations which I have spoken to you are spirit and are life. ⁶⁴ But there are some of you who are not believing.For Jesus had perceived from the beginning who those are who are not believing, and who it is that gives Him up." ⁶⁵ And He said, "Therefore have I declared to you that no one can be coming to Me if it should not be given him of the Father." ⁶⁶ At this, then, many of His disciples came away, dropping behind, and walked no longer with Him." ⁶⁷ Jesus, then, said to the twelve, "Not you also are wanting to go away!" ⁶⁸ Simon Peter answered Him, "Lord, to whom shall we come away? Declarations of life eonian hast Thou!" ⁶⁹ And we believe and know that Thou art the Holy One of God." ⁷⁰ Jesus answered and said to them, "Do not I choose you, the twelve, and one of you is an adversary? ⁷¹ Now He said it of Judas, son of Simon Iscariot, for this man was about to give Him up, being one of the twelve."

⁶ Who also makes us competent dispensers of a new covenant, not of the letter, but of the spirit, for the letter is killing, yet the spirit is vivifying."

¹ Nothing, consequently, is now condemnation to those in Christ Jesus. Not according to flesh are they walking, but according to spirit, ² for the spirit's law of life in Christ Jesus frees you from the law of sin and death. ³ For what was impossible to the law, in which it was infirm through the flesh, did God, sending His own Son in the likeness of sin's flesh and concerning sin, He condemns sin in the flesh, ⁴ that the just requirement of the law may be fulfilled in us, who are not walking in accord with flesh, but in accord with spirit." ⁵ For those who are in accord with flesh are disposed to that which is of the flesh, yet those who are in accord with spirit to that which is of the spirit." ⁶ For the disposition of the flesh is death, yet the disposition of the spirit is life and peace, ⁷ because the disposition of the flesh is enmity to God, for it is not subject to the law of God, for neither is it able." ⁸ Now those who are in flesh are not able to please God. ⁹ Yet you are not in flesh, but in spirit, if so be that God's spirit is making its home in you. Now if anyone has not Christ's spirit, this one is not His." ¹⁰ Now if Christ is in you, the body, indeed, is dead because of sin, yet the spirit is life because of righteousness." ¹¹ Now if the spirit of Him Who rouses Jesus from among the dead is making its home in you, He Who rouses Christ Jesus from among the dead will also be vivifying your mortal bodies because of His spirit making its home in you." ¹² Consequently, then, brethren, debtors are we, not to the flesh, to be living in accord with flesh, ¹³ for if you are living in accord with flesh, you are about to be dying. Yet if, in spirit, you are putting the practices of the body to death, you will be living." ¹⁴ For whoever are being led by God's spirit, these are sons of God." ¹⁵ For you did not get slavery's spirit to fear again, but you got the spirit of sonship, in which we are crying, "Abba, Father!" ¹⁶ The spirit itself is testifying together with our spirit that we are children of God. ¹⁷ Yet if children, enjoyers also of an allotment, enjoyers, indeed, of an allotment from God, yet joint enjoyers of Christ's allotment, if so be that we are suffering together, that we should be glorified together also." ¹⁸ For I am reckoning that the sufferings of the current era do not deserve the glory about to be revealed for us.

⁶ Who will be paying each one in accord with his acts: ⁷ to those, indeed, who by endurance in good acts are seeking glory and honor and incorruption, life eonian;" ⁸ yet to those of faction and stubborn, indeed, as to the truth, yet persuaded to injustice, indignation and fury,

⁸ For in grace, through faith, are you saved, and this is not out of you; it is God's approach present, ⁹ not of works, lest anyone should be boasting." ¹⁰ For anyone who should be keeping the whole law, yet should be tripping in one thing, has become liable for all."

⁵ not for works which are wrought in righteousness which we do, but according to His mercy, He saves us, through the bath of renascence and renewal of holy spirit,

¹ Yet take heed not to be doing your righteousness in front of men, in order to be gazed at by them, otherwise surely you have no wages with your Father Who is in the heavens." ² Whenever, then, you may be doing alms, you should not be trumpeting in front of you, even as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, so that they should be glorified by men. Verily, I am saying to you, They are collecting their wages!" ³ Yet you, doing alms, let not your left hand know what your right is doing, ⁴ so that your alms may be in hiding, and your Father, Who is observing in hiding, will be paying you." ⁵ And whenever you may be praying, you shall not be as the hypocrites, for they are fond of standing in the synagogues and at the corners of the squares to be praying, so that they may appear to men. Verily, I am saying to you, They are collecting their wages!" ⁶ Now you, whenever you may be praying, enter into your storeroom, and, locking your door, pray to your Father Who is in hiding, and your Father, Who is observing in hiding, will be paying you." ⁷ Now, in praying, you should not use useless repetitions even as those of the nations. For they are supposing that they will be hearkened to in their loquacity." ⁸ Do not, then, be like them, for aware is God, your Father, of what you have need before you request Him." ⁹ Thus, then, you be praying: 'Our Father Who art in the heavens, hallowed be Thy name." ¹⁰ Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done, as in heaven, on earth also." ¹¹ Our bread, our dole, be giving us today." ¹² And remit to us our debts, as we also remit those of our debtors." ¹³ And mayest Thou not be bringing us into trial, but rescue us from the wicked one.'" ¹⁴ For if you should be forgiving men their offenses, your heavenly Father also will be forgiving you." ¹⁵ Yet if you should not be forgiving men their offenses, neither will your Father be forgiving your offenses." ¹⁶ Now whenever you may be fasting, become not, as the hypocrites, of a sad countenance, for they disguise their faces so that they may appear to men to be fasting. Verily, I am saying to you: They are collecting their wages." ¹⁷ Now you, when fasting, rub your head with oil and wash your face, ¹⁸ so that you may not appear to men to be fasting, but to your Father Who is in hiding, and your Father, Who is observing in hiding, will be paying you." ¹⁹ Do not hoard for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and corrosion are causing them to disappear, and where thieves are tunneling and stealing." ²⁰ Yet hoard for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor corrosion are causing them to disappear, and where thieves are not tunneling nor stealing;" ²¹ for wherever your treasure is, there will your heart be also." ²² The lamp of the body is your eye. If, then, your eye should be single, your whole body will be luminous." ²³ Yet if your eye should be wicked, your whole body will be dark. If, then, the light that is in you is darkness, how dense is the darkness!" ²⁴ Now no one can be slaving for two lords, for either he will be hating the one and loving the other, or will be upholding one and despising the other. You can not be slaving for God and mammon." ²⁵ Therefore I am saying to you, Do not worry about you soul, what you may be eating, or what you may be drinking, nor yet about your body, what you should be putting on. Is not the soul more than nourishment, and the body than apparel? ²⁶ Look at the flying creatures of heaven, that they are not sowing, neither are they reaping, nor are they gathering into barns, and your heavenly Father is nourishing them. Are not you of more consequence than they? ²⁷ Now who of you by worrying is able to add on to his stature one cubit? ²⁸ And why are you worrying about apparel? Study the anemones of the field, how they are growing. Not toiling are they, nor yet are they spinning." ²⁹ Yet I am saying to you that not even Solomon in all his glory was clothed as one of these. ³⁰ Now if the grass of the field, which is today, and tomorrow is cast into the stove, God thus is garbing; not much rather you, scant of faith? ³¹ You, then, should not be worrying, saying, 'What may we be eating?' or 'What may we be drinking?' or 'With what may we be clothed?'" ³² For for all these the nations are seeking. For aware is your heavenly Father that you need all of these. ³³ Yet seek first the kingdom and its righteousness, and these all shall be added to you." ³⁴ You should not, then, be worrying about the morrow, for the morrow will be worrying of itself. Sufficient for the day is its own evil."

²⁶ If anyone is seeming to be a ritualist, not bridling his tongue, but seducing his heart, the ritual of this one is vain, ²⁷ for ritual clean and undefiled with God the Father is this: to be visiting the bereaved and widowed in their affliction, to be keeping oneself unspotted from the world."

¹⁵ And He said to them, "Go into all the world; herald the evangel to the entire creation." ¹⁶ He who believes and is baptized shall be saved, yet he who disbelieves shall be condemned."