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RELIGION DEFINED IN SCRIPTURE
threskeia
=
outward religious service
threskos
= religions, superstitious
sebomai
= to venerate, worship, adore
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Acts 26:4-5 “My manner
of life from my youth, which was at the first among mine own
nation at Jerusalem, know all the Jews; Which knew me from the
beginning, if they would testify, that after the most straitest
sect of our religion
(threskeia)I
lived a Pharisee.”
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James 1:26 “If any man
among you seem to be religious
(threskos),
and bridleth not his tongue, but deceiveth his own heart, this
man's religion (threskeia)
is vain.”
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James 1:27 “Pure
religion (threskeia)
and undefiled, before God and the Father is this, To visit the
fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself
unspotted from the world.”
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Acts 13:43 “Now when the
congregation was broken up, many of the Jews and religious
(sebomai)
proselytes followed Paul and Barnabas: who, speaking to them,
persuade them to continue in the grace of God.”
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