Isaiah 1:11
What use to me is the number of the offerings which you give me? says the Lord; your burned offerings of sheep, and the best parts of fat cattle, are a weariness to me; I take no pleasure in the blood of oxen, or of lambs, or of he-goats.
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Isaiah 1:11
What use to me is the number of the offerings which you give me? says the Lord; your burned offerings of sheep, and the best parts of fat cattle, are a weariness to me; I take no pleasure in the blood of oxen, or of lambs, or of he-goats.
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Isaiah 1:10
Give ear to the word of the Lord, you rulers of Sodom; let your hearts be turned to the law of our God, you people of Gomorrah.
Isaiah 1:11
What use to me is the number of the offerings which you give me? says the Lord; your burned offerings of sheep, and the best parts of fat cattle, are a weariness to me; I take no pleasure in the blood of oxen, or of lambs, or of he-goats.
Isaiah 1:12
At whose request do you come before me, making my house unclean with your feet?
Isaiah 1:13
Give me no more false offerings; the smoke of burning flesh is disgusting to me, so are your new moons and Sabbaths and your holy meetings.
Isaiah 1:14
Your new moons and your regular feasts are a grief to my soul: they are a weight in my spirit; I am crushed under them.
Isaiah 1:15
And when your hands are stretched out to me, my eyes will be turned away from you: even though you go on making prayers, I will not give ear: your hands are full of blood.
Proverbs 15:8
The offering of the evil-doer is disgusting to the Lord, but the prayer of the upright man is his delight.
Malachi 1:10
If only there was one among you who would see that the doors were shut, so that you might not put a light to the fire on my altar for nothing! I have no pleasure in you, says the Lord of armies, and I will not take an offering from your hands.
Leviticus 7:18
And if any of the flesh of the peace-offering is taken as food on the third day, it will not be pleasing to God and will not be put to the account of him who gives it; it will be unclean and a cause of sin to him who takes it as food.
Jeremiah 14:12
When they go without food, I will not give ear to their cry; when they give burned offerings and meal offerings, I will not take pleasure in them: but I will put an end to them by the sword and by need of food and by disease.
Isaiah 61:8
For I, the Lord, take pleasure in upright judging; I will not put up with the violent taking away of right; and I will certainly give them their reward, and I will make an eternal agreement with them.
1 Samuel 13:9
Then Saul said, Come here and give me the burned offering and the peace-offerings. And he made a burned offering to the Lord.
Psalms 66:18
I said in my heart, The Lord will not give ear to me:
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Jeremiah 6:20
To what purpose does sweet perfume come to me from Sheba, and spices from a far country? your burned offerings give me no pleasure, your offerings of beasts are not pleasing to me.
Amos 5:22
Even if you give me your burned offerings and your meal offerings, I will not take pleasure in them: I will have nothing to do with the peace-offerings of your fat beasts.
Isaiah 66:2
For all these things my hand has made, and they are mine, says the Lord; but to this man only will I give attention, to him who is poor and broken in spirit, fearing my word.
Isaiah 66:3
He who puts an ox to death puts a man to death; he who makes an offering of a lamb puts a dog to death; he who makes a meal offering makes an offering of pig's blood; he who makes an offering of perfumes for a sign gives worship to an image: as they have gone after their desires, and their soul takes pleasure in their disgusting things;
Hosea 6:6
Because my desire is for mercy and not offerings; for the knowledge of God more than for burned offerings.
1 Samuel 15:22
And Samuel said, Has the Lord as much delight in offerings and burned offerings as in the doing of his orders? Truly, to do his pleasure is better than to make offerings, and to give ear to him than the fat of sheep.
1 Samuel 15:23
For to go against his orders is like the sin of those who make use of secret arts, and pride is like giving worship to images. Because you have put away from you the word of the Lord, he has put you from your place as king.
Psalms 50:8
I will not take up a cause against you because of your offerings, or because of your burned offerings, which are ever before me.
Psalms 50:9
I will take no ox out of your house, or he-goats from your flocks;
Psalms 66:15
I will give you burned offerings of fat beasts, and the smoke of sheep; I will make offerings of oxen and goats. (Selah.)
Romans 12:1
For this reason I make request to you, brothers, by the mercies of God, that you will give your bodies as a living offering, holy, pleasing to God, which is the worship it is right for you to give him.
Exodus 29:18
And let them all be burned on the altar as a burned offering to the Lord: a sweet smell, an offering made by fire to the Lord.
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Amos 5:21
Your feasts are disgusting to me, I will have nothing to do with them; I will take no delight in your holy meetings.
Jeremiah 7:21
These are the words of the Lord of armies, the God of Israel: Put your burned offerings with your offerings of beasts, and take flesh for your food.
Jeremiah 7:22
For I said nothing to your fathers, and gave them no orders, on the day when I took them out of Egypt, about burned offerings or offerings of beasts:
Psalms 50:10
For every beast of the woodland is mine, and the cattle on a thousand hills.
Psalms 50:11
I see all the birds of the mountains, and the beasts of the field are mine.
Psalms 50:12
If I had need of food, I would not give you word of it; for the earth is mine and all its wealth.
Psalms 50:13
Am I to take the flesh of the ox for my food, or the blood of goats for my drink?
Psalms 51:17
The offerings of God are a broken spirit; a broken and sorrowing heart, O God, you will not put from you.
Leviticus 26:31
And I will make your towns waste and send destruction on your holy places; I will take no pleasure in the smell of your sweet perfumes;
Ecclesiastes 5:1
Put your feet down with care when you go to the house of God, for it is better to give ear than to make the burned offerings of the foolish, whose knowledge is only of doing evil.
Mark 12:33
And to have love for him with all the heart, and with all the mind, and with all the strength, and to have the same love for his neighbour as for himself, is much more than all forms of offerings.
Isaiah 43:24
You have not got me sweet-smelling plants with your money, or given me pleasure with the fat of your offerings: but you have made me a servant to your sins, and you have made me tired with your evil doings.
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Micah 6:7
Will the Lord be pleased with thousands of sheep or with ten thousand rivers of oil? am I to give my first child for my wrongdoing, the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul?
Psalms 51:16
You have no desire for an offering or I would give it; you have no delight in burned offerings.
Amos 5:23
Take away from me the noise of your songs; my ears are shut to the melody of your instruments.
Amos 5:24
But let the right go rolling on like waters, and righteousness like an ever-flowing stream.
Proverbs 21:3
To do what is right and true is more pleasing to the Lord than an offering.
Psalms 51:18
Do good to Zion in your good pleasure, building up the walls of Jerusalem.
Psalms 51:19
Then you will have delight in the offerings of righteousness, in burned offerings and offerings of beasts; then they will make offerings of oxen on your altar.
Psalms 50:14
Make an offering of praise to God; keep the agreements which you have made with the Most High;
Isaiah 43:23
You have not made me burned offerings of sheep, or given me honour with your offerings of beasts; I did not make you servants to give me an offering, and I did not make you tired with requests for perfumes.
1 Samuel 15:21
But the people took some of their goods, sheep and oxen, the chief of the things which were put to the curse, to make an offering of them to the Lord your God in Gilgal.
Isaiah 40:16
And Lebanon is not enough to make a fire with, or all its cattle enough for a burned offering.
Matthew 23:23
A curse is on you, scribes and Pharisees, false ones! for you make men give a tenth of all sorts of sweet-smelling plants, but you give no thought to the more important things of the law, righteousness, and mercy, and faith; but it is right for you to do these, and not to let the others be undone.
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Micah 6:6
With what am I to come before the Lord and go with bent head before the high God? am I to come before him with burned offerings, with young oxen a year old?
Micah 6:8
He has made clear to you, O man, what is good; and what is desired from you by the Lord; only doing what is right, and loving mercy, and walking without pride before your God.
Jeremiah 7:23
But this was the order I gave them, saying, Give ear to my voice, and I will be your God, and you will be my people: go in all the way ordered by me, so that all may be well for you.
Jeremiah 7:24
But they took no note and did not give ear, but were guided by the thoughts and the pride of their evil hearts, going back and not forward.
Matthew 9:13
But go and take to heart the sense of these words, My desire is for mercy, not offerings: for I have come not to get the upright, but sinners.
Matthew 12:7
But if these words had been in your minds, My desire is for mercy and not for offerings, you would not have been judging those who have done no wrong.
Psalms 50:7
Give ear, O my people, to my words; O Israel, I will be a witness against you; I am God, even your God.
Jeremiah 7:27
And you are to say all these words to them, but they will not give ear to you: you will send out your voice to them, but they will give no answer.
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Proverbs 21:27
The offering of evil-doers is disgusting: how much more when they give it with an evil purpose!
Hosea 5:6
They will go, with their flocks and their herds, in search of the Lord, but they will not see him; he has taken himself out of their view.
Hosea 8:13
He gives the offerings of his lovers, and takes the flesh for food; but the Lord has no pleasure in them; now he will keep in mind their evil-doing and give them the punishment of their sins; they will go back to Egypt.
Hosea 9:4
They will give no wine offering to the Lord, they will not make offerings ready for him; their bread will be like the bread of those in sorrow; all who take it will be unclean, because their bread will be only for their desire, it will not come into the house of the Lord.
Numbers 23:1
And Balaam said to Balak, Make me here seven altars and get ready seven oxen and seven male sheep.
Numbers 23:14
So he took him into the country of Zophim, to the top of Pisgah, and there they made seven altars, offering an ox and a male sheep on every altar.
Hosea 12:11
In Gilead there is evil. They are quite without value; in Gilgal they make offerings of oxen; truly their altars are like masses of stones in the hollows of a ploughed field.
Deuteronomy 26:14
No part of these things has been used for food in a time of weeping, or put away when I was unclean, or given for the dead: I have given ear to the voice of the Lord my God, and have done all you have given me orders to do.
2 Samuel 15:12
And Absalom sent for Ahithophel the Gilonite, one of David's helpers, from Giloh his town, while he was making the offerings. And the design against David became strong, for more and more people were joined to Absalom.
Ezekiel 33:31
And they come to you as my people come, and are seated before you as my people, hearing your words but doing them not: for deceit is in their mouth and their heart goes after profit for themselves.
Luke 16:15
And he said, You take care to seem right in the eyes of men, but God sees your hearts: and those things which are important in the opinion of men, are evil in the eyes of God.
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Psalms 40:6
You had no desire for offerings of beasts or fruits of the earth; ears you made for me: for burned offerings and sin offerings you made no request.
Psalms 40:7
Then I said, See, I come; it is recorded of me in the roll of the book,
Psalms 40:8
My delight is to do your pleasure, O my God; truly, your law is in my heart.
Hebrews 10:6
You had no joy in burned offerings or in offerings for sin.
Hebrews 10:7
Then I said, See, I have come to do your pleasure, O God (as it is said of me in the roll of the book).
Hebrews 10:8
After saying, You had no desire for offerings, for burned offerings or offerings for sin (which are made by the law) and you had no pleasure in them,
Hebrews 10:9
Then he said, See, I have come to do your pleasure. He took away the old order, so that he might put the new order in its place.
Hebrews 10:10
By that pleasure we have been made holy, by the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once and for ever.
Hebrews 10:11
And every priest takes his place at the altar day by day, doing what is necessary, and making again and again the same offerings which are never able to take away sins.
Daniel 9:27
And a strong order will be sent out against the great number for one week; and so for half of the week the offering and the meal offering will come to an end; and in its place will be an unclean thing causing fear; till the destruction which has been fixed is let loose on him who has made waste.
Hebrews 9:9
And this is an image of the present time; when the offerings which are given are not able to make the heart of the worshipper completely clean,
Hebrews 10:4
Because it is not possible for the blood of oxen and goats to take away sins.
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Isaiah 1:16
Be washed, make yourselves clean; put away the evil of your doings from before my eyes; let there be an end of sinning;
Isaiah 1:17
Take pleasure in well-doing; let your ways be upright, keep down the cruel, give a right decision for the child who has no father, see to the cause of the widow.
Isaiah 1:18
Come now, and let us have an argument together, says the Lord: how may your sins which are red like blood be white as snow? how may their dark purple seem like wool?
Isaiah 1:19
If you will give ear to my word and do it, the good things of the land will be yours;
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Psalms 50:16
But to the sinner, God says, What are you doing, talking of my laws, or taking the words of my agreement in your mouth?
Psalms 50:17
Seeing that you have no desire for my teaching, turning your back on my words.
Psalms 50:18
When you saw a thief, you were in agreement with him, and you were joined with those who took other men's wives.
Psalms 50:19
You have given your mouth to evil, your tongue to words of deceit.
Psalms 50:20
You say evil of your brother; you make false statements against your mother's son.
Psalms 50:21
These things have you done, and I said nothing; it seemed to you that I was such a one as yourself; but I will make a protest against you, and put them in order before your eyes.
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Proverbs 28:9
As for the man whose ear is turned away from hearing the law, even his prayer is disgusting.
Amos 4:4
Come to Beth-el and do evil; to Gilgal, increasing the number of your sins; come with your offerings every morning and your tenths every three days:
Amos 4:5
Let that which is leavened be burned as a praise-offering, let the news of your free offerings be given out publicly; for this is pleasing to you, O children of Israel, says the Lord.
Matthew 15:9
But their worship is to no purpose, while they give as their teaching the rules of men.
John 4:24
God is Spirit: then let his worshippers give him worship in the true way of the spirit.
John 18:28
So they took Jesus from the house of Caiaphas to the Praetorium. It was early. They themselves did not go into the Praetorium, so that they might not become unclean, but might take the Passover.
Deuteronomy 33:19
They will send out the word for the people to come to the mountain, taking there the offerings of righteousness: for the store of the seas will be theirs, and the secret wealth of the sand.
Ezekiel 20:39
As for you, O children of Israel, the Lord has said: Let every man completely put away his images and give ear to me: and let my holy name no longer be shamed by your offerings and your images.
Micah 3:4
Then they will be crying to the Lord for help, but he will not give them an answer: yes, he will keep his face veiled from them at that time, because their acts have been evil.
Malachi 1:11
For, from the coming up of the sun till its going down, my name is great among the Gentiles; and in every place the smell of burning flesh is offered to my name, and a clean offering: for my name is great among the Gentiles, says the Lord of armies.
Malachi 2:13
And this again you do: covering the altar of the Lord with weeping and with grief, so that he gives no more thought to the offering, and does not take it with pleasure from your hand.
Matthew 5:23
If then you are making an offering at the altar and there it comes to your mind that your brother has something against you,
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Hebrews 10:5
So that when he comes into the world, he says, You had no desire for offerings, but you made a body ready for me;
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Isaiah 41:21
Put forward your cause, says the Lord; let your strong argument come out, says the King of Jacob.
Isaiah 33:10
Now will I come forward, says the Lord; now will I be lifted up; now will my power be seen.
Isaiah 40:1
Give comfort, give comfort, to my people, says your God.
Isaiah 66:9
Will I by whom the birth was started, not make it complete? says the Lord. Will I who make children come to birth, let them be kept back? says your God.
Isaiah 40:25
Who then seems to you to be my equal? says the Holy One.
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Jeremiah 7:4
Put no faith in false words, saying, The Temple of the Lord, the Temple of the Lord, the Temple of the Lord, are these.
Jeremiah 7:5
For if your ways and your doings are truly changed for the better; if you truly give right decisions between a man and his neighbour;
Jeremiah 7:6
If you are not cruel to the man from a strange country, and to the child without a father, and to the widow, and do not put the upright to death in this place, or go after other gods, causing damage to yourselves:
Jeremiah 7:7
Then I will let you go on living in this place, in the land which I gave to your fathers in the past and for ever.
Jeremiah 7:8
See, you put your faith in false words which are of no profit.
Jeremiah 7:9
Will you take the goods of others, put men to death, and be untrue to your wives, and take false oaths, and have perfumes burned to the Baal, and go after other gods which are strange to you;
Jeremiah 7:10
And come and take your place before me in this house, which is named by my name, and say, We have been made safe; so that you may do all these disgusting things?
Jeremiah 7:11
Has this house, which is named by my name, become a hole of thieves to you? Truly I, even I, have seen it, says the Lord.
Jeremiah 7:12
But go now to my place which was in Shiloh, where I put my name at first, and see what I did to it because of the evil-doing of my people Israel.
Matthew 3:9
And say not to yourselves, We have Abraham for our father; because I say to you that God is able from these stones to make children for Abraham.
Matthew 3:10
And even now the axe is put to the root of the trees; every tree then which does not give good fruit is cut down, and put into the fire.
Isaiah 48:2
For they say that they are of the holy town, and put their faith in the God of Israel: the Lord of armies is his name.
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Malachi 1:7
You put unclean bread on my altar. And you say, How have we made it unclean? By your saying, The table of the Lord is of no value.
Malachi 1:8
And when you give what is blind for an offering, it is no evil! and when you give what is damaged and ill, it is no evil! Give it now to your ruler; will he be pleased with you, or will you have his approval? says the Lord of armies.
Malachi 1:9
And now, make request for the grace of God so that he may have mercy on us: this has been your doing: will he give his approval to any of you? says the Lord of armies.
Malachi 1:13
And you say, See, what a weariness it is! and you let out your breath at it, says the Lord of armies; and you have given what has been cut about by beasts, and what is damaged in its feet and ill; this is the offering you give: will this be pleasing to me from your hands? says the Lord.
Malachi 1:14
A curse on the false man who has a male in his flock, and takes his oath, and gives to the Lord a damaged thing: for I am a great King, says the Lord of armies, and my name is to be feared among the Gentiles.
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Isaiah 1:9
If the Lord of armies had not kept some at least of us safe, we would have been like Sodom, and the fate of Gomorrah would have been ours.
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Genesis 4:5
But in Cain and his offering he had no pleasure. And Cain was angry and his face became sad.
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Isaiah 34:6
The sword of the Lord is full of blood, it is fat with the best of the meat, with the blood of lambs and goats, with the best parts of the sheep: for the Lord has a feast in Bozrah, and much cattle will be put to death in the land of Edom.
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Romans 2:28
The true Jew is not one who is only so publicly, and circumcision is not that which may be seen in the flesh:
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Isaiah 1:5
Why will you have more and more punishment? why keep on in your evil ways? Every head is tired and every heart is feeble.
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Isaiah 58:4
If keeping from food makes you quickly angry, ready for fighting and giving blows with evil hands; your holy days are not such as to make your voice come to my ears on high.
Isaiah 58:5
Have I given orders for such a day as this? a day for keeping yourselves from pleasure? is it only a question of the bent head, of putting on haircloth, and being seated in the dust? is this what seems to you a holy day, well-pleasing to the Lord?
Isaiah 58:6
Is not this the holy day for which I have given orders: to let loose those who have wrongly been made prisoners, to undo the bands of the yoke, and to let the crushed go free, and every yoke be broken?
Zechariah 7:5
Say to all the people of the land and to the priests, When you went without food and gave yourselves to grief in the fifth and the seventh months for these seventy years, did you ever do it because of me?
Zechariah 7:6
And when you are feasting and drinking, are you not doing it only for yourselves?
Romans 14:17
For the kingdom of God is not food and drink, but righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit.
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Romans 2:29
But he is a Jew who is a secret one, whose circumcision is of the heart, in the spirit and not in the letter; whose praise is not from men, but from God.
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Genesis 4:4
And Abel gave an offering of the young lambs of his flock and of their fat. And the Lord was pleased with Abel's offering;
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Leviticus 3:4
And the two kidneys, and the fat on them, which is by the top part of the legs, and the fat joining the liver and the kidneys, he is to take away;
Leviticus 3:15
And the two kidneys, with the fat on them, which is by the top part of the legs, and the fat joining the liver and the kidneys, let him take away;
Leviticus 3:16
That it may be burned by the priest on the altar; it is the food of the offering made by fire for a sweet smell: all the fat is the Lord's.
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Leviticus 4:23
When the sin which he has done is made clear to him, let him give for his offering a goat, a male without any mark.
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Isaiah 1:6
The body, from head to foot, is all diseased; it is a mass of open wounds, marks of blows, and broken flesh: the flow of blood has not been stopped, and no oil has been put on the wounds.
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Isaiah 6:6
Then a winged one came to me with a burning coal in his hand, which he had taken from off the altar with the fire-spoon.
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Isaiah 6:7
And after touching my mouth with it, he said, See, your lips have been touched with this; and your evil is taken away, and you are made clean from sin.
Isaiah 6:8
And the voice of the Lord came to my ears, saying, Whom am I to send, and who will go for us? Then I said, Here am I, send me.
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Ezekiel 39:18
The flesh of the men of war will be your food, and your drink the blood of the princes of the earth, of sheep and lambs, of he-goats, of oxen, all of them fat beasts of Bashan.
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Hosea 2:11
And I will put an end to all her joy, her feasts, her new moons, and her Sabbaths, and all her regular meetings.
Luke 12:1
At that time, when thousands of the people had come together, in such numbers that they were crushing one another, he said first to his disciples, Have nothing to do with the leaven of the Pharisees, which is deceit.
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