12 Bible Verses About Worship in Spirit and Truth

God is spirit, and anyone who worships him has to do it in spirit and truth.”

For it is we who are the circumcision: we who worship by the Spirit of God, who take pride in Christ Jesus, and who put no confidence in human credentials,

So, brothers and sisters, I appeal to you by the mercies of God: offer your bodies to God as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to him. That is your reasonable worship.

The LORD is close to everyone who calls to him, to all who call to him sincerely.

So let us approach with hearts that are true, fully sure in our faith, our hearts sprinkled and cleansed of an evil conscience and our bodies bathed in clean water.

The sacrifices that God accepts are a broken spirit. A heart that is broken and crushed, God, you will never reject.

But the LORD said to Samuel, “Pay no attention to his looks or to how tall he is, because I have rejected him. The LORD does not see in the way a person sees. A person looks at what is there for the eyes, but the LORD looks at the heart.”

‘With their lips this people honors me, but their heart keeps far away from me. Their worship of me is empty, for the doctrines they teach are commands made by human beings.’”

Jesus said to her, “Believe me, Woman: an hour is coming when your worship of the Father will not be on this mountain, nor in Jerusalem either.

God, who made the world and all that is in it, is himself Lord of heaven and earth. He does not dwell in shrines that hands have made. Nor do human hands wait on him as if he lacked anything, since it is he who gives life and breath and all things to everyone.

Who has the right to climb the mountain of the LORD? Who may stand in the place of his holiness? Those whose hands are innocent and whose hearts are pure, who have not called on God’s own life to back what is false, and have not sworn an oath to deceive.