# G2356 θρησκεία

θρησκεία (thrēskeía), Strong’s G2356: ceremonial observance KJV: religion, worshipping. Occurs 8 times.

Source: https://besorah.bible/word/G2356 — Besorah, the whole Bible in Hebrew, Greek and English. Texts and licences: https://besorah.bible/about/credits.html

*thrēskeía* — ceremonial observance

KJV: religion, worshipping

Derived from [θρησκός thrēskós](https://besorah.bible/word/G2357) (ceremonious in worship)

Occurs 8 times.

## Where it occurs
- [Acts 26:5](https://besorah.bible/besorah/acts/26?v=5) — having known me from the first, if they are willing to testify, that after the strictest sect of our religion I lived a…
- [Colossians 2:18](https://besorah.bible/besorah/colossians/2?v=18) — Let no one rob you of your prize by self-abasement and worshiping of the angels, dwelling in the things which he has…
- [Jacob 1:26](https://besorah.bible/besorah/jacob/1?v=26) — If anyone among you thinks himself to be religious while he doesn’t bridle his tongue, but deceives his heart, this…
- [Jacob 1:27](https://besorah.bible/besorah/jacob/1?v=27) — Pure religion and undefiled before our God and Father is this: to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction…
- [Wisdom of Solomon 14:18](https://besorah.bible/tanakh-gr/wisdom-of-solomon/14?v=18) — But worship was raised to a yet higher pitch, even by those who didn’t know him, urged forward by the ambition of the…
- [Wisdom of Solomon 14:27](https://besorah.bible/tanakh-gr/wisdom-of-solomon/14?v=27) — For the worship of idols that may not be named is a beginning and cause and end of every evil.
- [4 Maccabees 5:6](https://besorah.bible/tanakh-gr/4-maccabees/5?v=6) — “I would counsel you, old man, before your tortures begin, to taste the swine’s flesh, and save your life; for I feel…
- [4 Maccabees 5:13](https://besorah.bible/tanakh-gr/4-maccabees/5?v=13) — For bear in mind that if there is any power which watches over this religion of yours, it will pardon you for all…