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Another great passage!

Ephesians 2.9: "Not of works, lest any man should boast".

@Ziggy Great post! :)

Hebrews 12.2 emphasizes looking up; 'looking unto Jesus'. :)

1 Corinthians 10.32 says there are three. Your comment is indeed valid also, of course.

@Ziggy: Thoughtful comment! :) It would be inaccurate for anyone to say, however, that if one bows one's knees, then this fulfills all reverence requirements, or that if knees are not literally bowed, this supposedly indicates a lack of reverence. In religious ritual, there can be an unhealthy...

@Ziggy: PS: Great header verse there also from the Psalms :) : "Psa 51:6 Behold, thou desirest truth in the inward parts: and in the hidden part thou shalt make me to know wisdom."

@devin553344 Romans 8.15 speaks of crying 'Abba, Father' by the indwelling Spirit; prayer is not primarily an outward matter but an inward and spiritual matter of the heart, as led by the Spirit of God.

Hi @Christophany ; good and apt passage reminding us that defilement is primarily moral and spiritual and it comes via the sinful, human heart (not via an arbitrary list of legalistic shibboleths).

@Ziggy I thought of this passage: "For this cause I bow my knees unto the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, 15 Of whom the whole family in heaven and earth is named, 16 That he would grant you, according to the riches of his glory, to be strengthened with might by his Spirit in the inner man...

@Ziggy From back a bit, you said: Isaiah 11.6 No need for you, @Ziggy, to comment any further, of course. (It can just be instructive for ppl to know that faith based / Biblical inkings are widely obtained.)

@Ziggy: I was thinking there in Psalm 84.3, about the sparrow finding a nest, that Luke 9.58 says: "And Jesus said unto him, Foxes have holes, and birds of the air have nests; but the Son of man hath not where to lay his head." A solemn thought...

While the thread is going off-topic, it's so important to affirm the deity of Christ.