Greeks, Chapter 3
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Next, I suppose you especially desire to hear concerning how [Christian] godliness differs from that of the Jews.
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The Jews then, if they abstain from this previously described service, rightly choose to worship the one God over all and esteem him Master; yet if they offer him this worship in the same manner as those previously described, they err.
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For the Greeks exhibit an example of folly by offering to those without touch and the deaf [objects]. And the Jews, reckoning they offer the same to God as though he were in need, should rather count it foolishness, not godliness.
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For he who made the heaven and the earth and all things in them, and supplies us all with whatever we need, himself needs none of those things — the very things he supplies to the ones who think they are giving to him.
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But those who think to offer him sacrifices of blood and fat and whole burnt-offerings, and to honor him with such honors, seem to me no different from those who show the same devotion to the deaf [objects]. The [Greeks] offer to things unable to partake of the honor; the [Jews] think they give to the one who needs nothing.