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.
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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.
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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:
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.
Hosea 6:6
Because my desire is for mercy and not offerings; for the knowledge of God more than for burned offerings.
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.
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.
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;
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.
Psalms 51:16
You have no desire for an offering or I would give it; you have no delight in burned offerings.
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.
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.
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.
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Jeremiah 7:20
So this is what the Lord God has said: See, my wrath and my passion will be let loose on this place, on man and beast, and on the trees of the field, and on the produce of the earth; it will be burning and will not be put out.
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.
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.
Amos 5:25
Did you come to me with offerings of beasts and meal offerings in the waste land for forty years, O Israel?
John 4:24
God is Spirit: then let his worshippers give him worship in the true way of the spirit.
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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.
Jeremiah 7:25
From the day when your fathers came out of Egypt till this day, I have sent my servants the prophets to you, getting up early every day and sending them:
Jeremiah 7:26
But still they took no note and would not give ear, but they made their necks stiff, doing worse than their fathers.
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.
Jeremiah 7:28
And you are to say to them, This is the nation which has not given ear to the voice of their God, or taken his teaching to heart: good faith is dead and is cut off from their mouths.
Jeremiah 11:7
For I gave certain witness to your fathers on the day when I took them up out of the land of Egypt, and even to this day, getting up early and witnessing and saying, Give ear to my voice.
Jeremiah 6:16
This is what the Lord has said: Take your place looking out on the ways; make search for the old roads, saying, Where is the good way? and go in it that you may have rest for your souls. But they said, We will not go in it.
Psalms 81:11
But my people did not give ear to my voice; Israel would have nothing to do with me.
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Jeremiah 11:4
To the order which I gave your fathers on the day when I took them out of the land of Egypt, out of the oven of iron, saying, Give ear to my voice, and do all the orders I have given you: so you will be my people, and I will be your God:
Jeremiah 30:22
And you will be my people, and I will be your God.
Leviticus 26:12
And I will be present among you and will be your God and you will be my people.
Jeremiah 31:33
But this is the agreement which I will make with the people of Israel after those days, says the Lord; I will put my law in their inner parts, writing it in their hearts; and I will be their God, and they will be my people.
Jeremiah 24:7
And I will give them a heart to have knowledge of me, that I am the Lord: and they will be my people, and I will be their God: for they will come back to me with all their heart.
Jeremiah 32:38
And they will be my people, and I will be their God:
Ezekiel 11:20
So that they may be guided by my rules and keep my orders and do them: and they will be to me a people, and I will be to them a God.
Genesis 17:7
And I will make between me and you and your seed after you through all generations, an eternal agreement to be a God to you and to your seed after you.
Exodus 6:7
And I will take you to be my people and I will be your God; and you will be certain that I am the Lord your God, who takes you out from under the yoke of the Egyptians.
Ezekiel 36:28
So that you may go on living in the land which I gave to your fathers; and you will be to me a people, and I will be to you a God.
2 Samuel 7:24
But you took and made strong for yourself your people Israel, to be your people for ever; and you, Lord, became their God.
Isaiah 51:16
And I have put my words in your mouth, covering you with the shade of my hand, stretching out the heavens, and placing the earth on its base, and saying to Zion, You are my people.
Jeremiah 31:1
At that time, says the Lord, I will be the God of all the families of Israel, and they will be my people.
Zechariah 8:8
And I will make them come and be living in Jerusalem and they will be to me a people and I will be to them a God, in good faith and in righteousness.
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Exodus 19:5
If now you will truly give ear to my voice and keep my agreement, you will be my special property out of all the peoples: for all the earth is mine:
Exodus 19:6
And you will be a kingdom of priests to me, and a holy nation. These are the words which you are to say to the children of Israel.
Exodus 24:7
And he took the book of the agreement, reading it in the hearing of the people: and they said, Everything which the Lord has said we will do, and we will keep his laws.
Deuteronomy 7:6
For you are a holy people to the Lord your God: marked out by the Lord your God to be his special people out of all the nations on the face of the earth.
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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 6:7
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?
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.
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.
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.
Psalms 51:17
The offerings of God are a broken spirit; a broken and sorrowing heart, O God, you will not put from you.
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;
Proverbs 15:8
The offering of the evil-doer is disgusting to the Lord, but the prayer of the upright man is his delight.
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;
Proverbs 21:3
To do what is right and true is more pleasing to the Lord than an offering.
Proverbs 21:27
The offering of evil-doers is disgusting: how much more when they give it with an evil purpose!
Proverbs 28:9
As for the man whose ear is turned away from hearing the law, even his prayer is disgusting.
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.
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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 10:5
So that when he comes into the world, he says, You had no desire for offerings, but you made a body ready for me;
Hebrews 10:6
You had no joy in burned offerings or in offerings for sin.
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Deuteronomy 5:33
Go on walking in the way ordered for you by the Lord your God, so that life may be yours and it may be well for you, and your days may be long in the land of your heritage.
Deuteronomy 4:40
Then keep his laws and his orders which I give you today, so that it may be well for you and for your children after you, and that your lives may be long in the land which the Lord your God is giving you for ever.
Deuteronomy 6:3
So give ear, O Israel, and take care to do this; so that it may be well for you, and you may be greatly increased, as the Lord the God of your fathers has given you his word, in a land flowing with milk and honey.
Isaiah 3:10
Happy is the upright man! for he will have joy of the fruit of his ways.
Jeremiah 42:6
If it is good or if it is evil, we will be guided by the voice of the Lord our God, to whom we are sending you; so that it may be well for us when we give ear to the voice of the Lord our God.
1 Timothy 4:8
For the training of the body is of profit for a little, but religion is of profit in every way, giving hope for the life which now is, and for that which is to come.
Ecclesiastes 8:12
Though a sinner does evil a hundred times and his life is long, I am certain that it will be well for those who go in fear of God and are in fear before him.
Isaiah 65:22
They will no longer be building for the use of others, or planting for others to have the fruit: for the days of my people will be like the days of a tree, and my loved ones will have joy in full measure in the work of their hands.
Jeremiah 22:15
Are you to be a king because you make more use of cedar than your father? did not your father take food and drink and do right, judging in righteousness, and then it was well for him?
1 Timothy 6:6
But true faith, with peace of mind, is of great profit:
Titus 3:8
This is a true saying; and it is my desire that you may give certain witness about these things, so that those who have had faith in God may give attention to good works. These things are good and of profit to men;
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Exodus 15:26
And he said, If with all your heart you will give attention to the voice of the Lord your God, and do what is right in his eyes, giving ear to his orders and keeping his laws, I will not put on you any of the diseases which I put on the Egyptians: for I am the Lord your life-giver.
Acts 5:29
But Peter and the Apostles, answering, said, We have to do the orders of God, not of man.
Deuteronomy 5:29
If only they had such a heart in them at all times, so that they might go in fear of me and keep my orders and that it might be well for them and for their children for ever!
Jeremiah 26:13
So now, make a change for the better in your ways and your doings, and give ear to the voice of the Lord your God; then the Lord will let himself be turned from the decision he has made against you for evil.
John 15:14
You are my friends, if you do what I give you orders to do.
1 John 5:3
For loving God is keeping his laws: and his laws are not hard.
Revelation 22:14
A blessing on those whose robes are washed, so that they may have a right to the tree of life, and may go in by the doors into the town.
Deuteronomy 4:30
When you are in trouble and all these things have come on you, if, in the future, you are turned again to the Lord your God, and give ear to his voice:
Deuteronomy 10:12
And now, Israel, what would the Lord your God have you do, but to go in the fear of the Lord your God, walking in all his ways and loving him and doing his pleasure with all your heart and all your soul,
Deuteronomy 11:27
The blessing if you give ear to the orders of the Lord your God, which I give you this day:
Deuteronomy 26:16
Today the Lord your God gives you orders to keep all these laws and decisions: so then keep and do them with all your heart and all your soul.
Deuteronomy 32:46
Moses said to them, Let the words which I have said to you today go deep into your hearts, and give orders to your children to do every word of this law.
Isaiah 1:19
If you will give ear to my word and do it, the good things of the land will be yours;
Hebrews 11:8
By faith Abraham did as God said when he was ordered to go out into a place which was to be given to him as a heritage, and went out without knowledge of where he was going.
1 John 3:22
And he gives us all our requests, because we keep his laws and do the things which are pleasing in his eyes.
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1 Corinthians 7:19
Circumcision is nothing, and its opposite is nothing, but only doing the orders of God is of value.
Joshua 1:8
Let this book of the law be ever on your lips and in your thoughts day and night, so that you may keep with care everything in it; then a blessing will be on all your way, and you will do well.
Matthew 5:19
Whoever then goes against the smallest of these laws, teaching men to do the same, will be named least in the kingdom of heaven; but he who keeps the laws, teaching others to keep them, will be named great in the kingdom of heaven.
Matthew 7:21
Not everyone who says to me, Lord, Lord, will go into the kingdom of heaven; but he who does the pleasure of my Father in heaven.
Luke 8:21
But he said to them in answer, My mother and my brothers are those who have knowledge of the word of God and do it.
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1 John 2:3
And by this we may be certain that we have knowledge of him, if we keep his laws.
1 John 2:4
The man who says, I have knowledge of him, and does not keep his laws, is false, and there is nothing true in him:
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