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Proverbs 15:8
The offering of the evil-doer is disgusting to the Lord, but the prayer of the upright man is his delight.

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Deuteronomy 12:7
There you and all your families are to make a feast before the Lord your God, with joy in everything to which you put your hand, because the Lord has given you his blessing.

Proverbs 17:1
Better a bit of dry bread in peace, than a house full of feasting and violent behaviour.

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Deuteronomy 24:4
Her first husband, who had sent her away, may not take her back after she has been wife to another; for that is disgusting to the Lord: and you are not to be a cause of sin in the land which the Lord your God is giving you for your heritage.

Deuteronomy 25:16
For all who do such things, and all whose ways are not upright, are disgusting to the Lord your God.

Proverbs 17:15
He who gives a decision for the evil-doer and he who gives a decision against the upright, are equally disgusting to the Lord.

Proverbs 20:10
Unequal weights and unequal measures, they are all disgusting to the Lord.

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1 Samuel 13:13
And Samuel said to Saul, You have done a foolish thing: you have not kept the rules which the Lord your God gave you; it was the purpose of the Lord to make your authority over Israel safe for ever.

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.

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.

1 Kings 3:4
And the king went to Gibeon to make an offering there, because that was the chief high place: it was Solomon's way to make a thousand burned offerings on that altar.

Jeremiah 7:8
See, you put your faith in false words which are of no profit.

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Psalms 11:7
For the Lord is upright; he is a lover of righteousness: the upright will see his face.

Psalms 140:13
Truly, the upright will give praise to your name: the holy will have a place in your house.

Proverbs 16:17
The highway of the upright is to be turned away from evil: he who takes care of his way will keep his soul.

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Psalms 19:14
Let the words of my mouth and the thoughts of my heart be pleasing in your eyes, O Lord, my strength and my salvation.

Psalms 51:6
Your desire is for what is true in the inner parts: in the secrets of my soul you will give me knowledge of wisdom.

Psalms 51:15
O Lord, let my lips be open, so that my mouth may make clear your praise.

Psalms 141:2
Let my prayer be ordered before you like a sweet smell; and let the lifting up of my hands be like the evening offering.

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 58:8
Then will light be shining on you like the morning, and your wounds will quickly be well: and your righteousness will go before you, and the glory of the Lord will come after you.

Titus 1:15
To the clean in heart all things are clean: but to those who are unclean and without faith nothing is clean; they become unclean in mind and in thought.

Hebrews 10:22
Let us go in with true hearts, in certain faith, having our hearts made free from the sense of sin and our bodies washed with clean water:

Hebrews 13:15
Let us then make offerings of praise to God at all times through him, that is to say, the fruit of lips giving witness to his name.

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Psalms 145:18
The Lord is near all those who give honour to his name; even to all who give honour to him with true hearts.

Psalms 145:19
To his worshippers, he will give their desire; their cry comes to his ears, and he gives them salvation.

Isaiah 45:11
The Lord, the Holy One of Israel, and his Maker, says, Will you put a question to me about the things which are to come, or will you give me orders about my sons, and the work of my hands?

Jeremiah 29:13
And you will be searching for me and I will be there, when you have gone after me with all your heart.

Matthew 6:7
And in your prayer do not make use of the same words again and again, as the Gentiles do: for they have the idea that God will give attention to them because of the number of their words.

Matthew 6:8
So be not like them; because your Father has knowledge of your needs even before you make your requests to him.

Matthew 15:9
But their worship is to no purpose, while they give as their teaching the rules of men.

Matthew 21:22
And all things, whatever you make request for in prayer, having faith, you will get.

Luke 18:11
The Pharisee, taking up his position, said to himself these words: God, I give you praise because I am not like other men, who take more than their right, who are evil-doers, who are untrue to their wives, or even like this tax-farmer.

John 1:47
Jesus saw Nathanael coming to him and said of him, See, here is a true son of Israel in whom there is nothing false.

Romans 8:26
And in the same way the Spirit is a help to our feeble hearts: for we are not able to make prayer to God in the right way; but the Spirit puts our desires into words which are not in our power to say;

Philippians 4:6
Have no cares; but in everything with prayer and praise put your requests before God.

James 5:17
Elijah was a man of flesh and blood as we are, and he made a strong prayer that there might be no rain; and there was no rain on the earth for three years and six months.

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Ecclesiastes 7:29
This only have I seen, that God made men upright, but they have been searching out all sorts of inventions.

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Haggai 1:8
Go up to the hills and get wood and put up the house; and I will take pleasure in it and be honoured, says the Lord.

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Job 35:13
But God will not give ear to what is false, or the Ruler of all take note of it;

Psalms 18:41
They were crying out, but there was no one to come to their help: even to the Lord, but he gave them no answer.

Proverbs 1:28
Then I will give no answer to their cries; searching for me early, they will not see me:

Zechariah 7:13
And it came about that as they would not give ear to his voice, so I would not give ear to their voice, says the Lord of armies:

Matthew 20:22
But Jesus made answer and said, You have no idea what you are requesting. Are you able to take of the cup which I am about to take?

James 1:7
Let it not seem to such a man that he will get anything from the Lord;

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2 Chronicles 7:15
Now my eyes will be open and my ears awake to the prayers made in this place.

2 Chronicles 33:12
And crying out to the Lord his God in his trouble, he made himself low before the God of his fathers,

Job 8:6
If you are clean and upright; then he will certainly be moved to take up your cause, and will make clear your righteousness by building up your house again.

Psalms 26:6
I will make my hands clean from sin; so will I go round your altar, O Lord;

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 50:14
Make an offering of praise to God; keep the agreements which you have made with the Most High;

Psalms 51:17
The offerings of God are a broken spirit; a broken and sorrowing heart, O God, you will not put from you.

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.

Amos 5:23
Take away from me the noise of your songs; my ears are shut to the melody of your instruments.

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.

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.

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.

John 4:23
But the time is coming, and is even now here, when the true worshippers will give worship to the Father in the true way of the spirit, for these are the worshippers desired by the Father.

Acts 10:4
And he, looking on him in fear, said, What is it, Lord? And he said to him, Your prayers and your offerings have come up to God, and he has kept them in mind.

Philippians 4:18
I have all things and more than enough: I am made full, having had from Epaphroditus the things which came from you, a perfume of a sweet smell, an offering well pleasing to God.

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