Bible Dictionary: Vanity: Mere External Religion Is

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1 Timothy 4:8
For bodily exercise profits little: but godliness is profitable to all things, having promise of the life that now is, and of that which is to come.
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Hebrews 13:9
Be not carried about with divers and strange doctrines. For it is a good thing that the heart be established with grace; not with meats, which have not profited them that have been occupied therein.
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Library

Vanity of Human Glory.
... a celebrated name; that is, for a something external to ourselves ... go out of his way
to have his mere name praised ... may be tempted to indulge in vanity, which is ...
/.../newman/parochial and plain sermons vol viii/sermon xii vanity of human.htm

Sebastian Franck: an Apostle of Inward Religion
... now nor at any time was Franck a mere copier of ... aller menschlichen Kunst und Weisheit
("The Vanity of Arts ... in religion: (a) It is outward, external, while the ...
/.../chapter iv sebastian franck an.htm

The Monk Nilus.
... temptations, might have been crushed by pride and vanity. ... a false confidence in a
mere external Christianity, dead ... that their abiding by a religion in which ...
//christianbookshelf.org/neander/light in the dark places/the monk nilus.htm

On Religion; the Natural and Divine Life; and the Exemplification ...
... which is constrained, and depends upon external causes ... no small difference in the
deportment of mere natural men ... of his miraculous power for vanity or ostentation ...
/.../scougal/the life of god in the soul of man/part i on religion the.htm

Spiritual Religion in High Places --Rous, Vane, and Sterry
... Christ"on the lower level as mere "restoration-work ... Baxter's pun on their names:
"Vanity and sterility ... contrast a religion founded on external performances or ...
/.../chapter xiv spiritual religion in.htm

section second.
... It was a proof of the vanity of their ... the requirements of legal piety or mere human
rectitude ... their religious service consisting only in external things, their ...
/.../the epistle of paul to the philippians practically explained/section second.htm

The Date of the Beginning of Noonday.
... church of Jesus reduced to a mere worldly sanctuary. ... The external dignity of the
ministers of religion ... and voluptuousness, puffed up with vanity, arrogance and ...
//christianbookshelf.org/orr/the gospel day /chapter i the date of.htm

Patrick, the Apostle of the Irish.
... by the Druids against the strange religion, and, on ... more easily persuaded of the
vanity of idolatry ... of the princes to bring about a mere external conversion of ...
/.../neander/light in the dark places/patrick the apostle of the.htm

That the Self-Existent Being Can be but One.
... From hence we may observe the vanity, folly, and weakness ... but must needs depend all
upon some external cause, that ... to be a voluntary, but a mere necessary agent ...
/.../vii proposition vii that the.htm

The Home-Parlor.
... in the pomp and pageantry of a vanity fair ... they learn to judge character by the external
habiliments in ... not the ornaments and magnificence of mere outward life ...
/.../philips/the christian home/chapter xxii the home-parlor.htm