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.
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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.
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Genesis 4:3
And after a time, Cain gave to the Lord an offering of the fruits of the earth.
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;
Genesis 4:5
But in Cain and his offering he had no pleasure. And Cain was angry and his face became sad.
Leviticus 1:2
Give these orders to the children of Israel: When anyone of you makes an offering to the Lord, you are to take it from the cattle, from the herd or from the flock.
1 Samuel 3:14
So I have made an oath to the family of Eli that no offering of meat or of meal which they may make will ever take away the sin of his family.
Malachi 2:10
Have we not all one father? has not one God made us? why are we, every one of us, acting falsely to his brother, putting shame on the agreement of our fathers?
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Genesis 9:16
And the bow will be in the cloud, and looking on it, I will keep in mind the eternal agreement between God and every living thing on the earth.
Leviticus 24:8
Every Sabbath day regularly, the priest is to put it in order before the Lord: it is offered for the children of Israel, an agreement made for ever.
1 Chronicles 16:17
And he gave it to Jacob for a law, and to Israel for an eternal agreement;
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Genesis 18:19
For I have made him mine so that he may give orders to his children and those of his line after him, to keep the ways of the Lord, to do what is good and right: so that the Lord may do to Abraham as he has said.
Psalms 112:2
His seed will be strong on the earth; blessings will be on the generation of the upright.
Psalms 115:13
He will send blessings on the worshippers of the Lord, on the small and on the great.
Psalms 115:14
May the Lord give you and your children still greater increase.
Proverbs 20:7
An upright man goes on in his righteousness: happy are his children after him!
Jeremiah 32:39
And I will give them one heart and one way, so that they may go on in the worship of me for ever, for their good and the good of their children after them:
Luke 19:10
For the Son of man came to make search for those who are wandering from the way, and to be their Saviour.
Acts 2:39
For the word of God is for you and for your children and for all those who are far off, even all those who may be marked out by the Lord our God.
Acts 11:14
Who will say words to you through which you and all your family may get salvation.
Acts 16:15
And when she and her family had had baptism, she made a request to us, saying, If it seems to you that I am true to the Lord, come into my house and be my guests. And she made us come.
Acts 16:31
And they said, Have faith in the Lord Jesus, and you and your family will have salvation.
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Exodus 21:6
Then his master is to take him to the gods of the house, and at the door, or at its framework, he is to make a hole in his ear with a sharp-pointed instrument; and he will be his servant for ever.
Exodus 22:7
If a man puts money or goods in the care of his neighbour to keep for him, and it is taken from the man's house, if they get the thief, he will have to make payment of twice the value.
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Leviticus 19:13
Do not be cruel to your neighbour or take what is his; do not keep back a servant's payment from him all night till the morning.
Isaiah 40:10
See, the Lord God will come as a strong one, ruling in power: see, those made free by him are with him, and those whom he has made safe go before him.
Isaiah 49:4
And I said, I have undergone weariness for nothing, I have given my strength for no purpose or profit: but still the Lord will take up my cause, and my God will give me my reward.
Isaiah 62:11
The Lord has sent out word to the end of the earth, Say to the daughter of Zion, See, your saviour comes; those whom he has made free are with him, and those to whom he has given salvation go before him.
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Exodus 23:32
Make no agreement with them or with their gods.
Exodus 34:12
But take care, and do not make any agreement with the people of the land where you are going, for it will be a cause of sin to you.
Exodus 34:15
So see that you make no agreement with the people of the land, and do not go after their gods, or take part in their offerings, or be guests at their feasts,
Deuteronomy 7:2
And when the Lord has given them up into your hands and you have overcome them, give them up to complete destruction: make no agreement with them, and have no mercy on them:
Joshua 9:6
And they came to Joshua to the tent-circle at Gilgal, and said to him and to the men of Israel, We have come from a far country: so now make an agreement with us.
Joshua 9:7
And the men of Israel said to the Hivites, It may be that you are living among us; how then may we make an agreement with you?
Joshua 9:11
So the responsible men and all the people of our country said to us, Take food with you for the journey and go to them, and say to them, We are your servants: so now make an agreement with us.
Joshua 9:15
So Joshua made peace with them, and made an agreement with them that they were not to be put to death: and the chiefs of the people took an oath to them.
Joshua 9:16
Now three days after, when they had made this agreement with them, they had word that these men were their neighbours, living near them.
Joshua 24:25
So Joshua made an agreement with the people that day, and gave them a rule and a law in Shechem.
Judges 2:2
And you are to make no agreement with the people of this land; you are to see that their altars are broken down: but you have not given ear to my voice: what have you done?
1 Samuel 9:1
Now there was a man of Benjamin named Kish, the son of Abiel, the son of Zeror, the son of Becorath, the son of Aphiah, a Benjamite, a man of wealth.
1 Samuel 9:2
He had a son named Saul, a specially good-looking young man; there was no one better-looking among the children of Israel: he was taller by a head than any other of the people.
2 Samuel 5:3
So all the responsible men of Israel came to the king at Hebron; and King David made an agreement with them in Hebron before the Lord: and they put the holy oil on David and made him king over Israel.
1 Kings 20:34
And Ben-hadad said to him, The towns my father took from your father I will give back; and you may make streets for yourself in Damascus as my father did in Samaria. And as for me, at the price of this agreement you will let me go. So he made an agreement with him and let him go.
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2 Kings 11:4
Then in the seventh year, Jehoiada sent for the captains of hundreds of the Carians, and the armed men, and taking them into the house of the Lord, made an agreement with them, and made them take an oath in the house of the Lord, and let them see the king's son.
1 Chronicles 11:13
He was with David at Pas-dammim, where the Philistines had come together for the fight, near a bit of land full of barley; and the people went in flight before the Philistines.
2 Chronicles 7:18
Then I will make strong the seat of your kingdom, as I gave my word to David your father, saying, You will never be without a man to be ruler in Israel.
Job 31:1
I made an agreement with my eyes; how then might my eyes be looking on a virgin?
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Job 5:16
So the poor man has hope, and the mouth of the evil-doer is stopped.
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Job 13:10
He will certainly put you right, if you have respect for persons in secret.
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Job 24:20
The public place of his town has no more knowledge of him, and his name has gone from the memory of men: he is rooted up like a dead tree.
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Psalms 16:4
Their sorrows will be increased who go after another god: I will not take drink offerings from their hands, or take their names on my lips.
Hosea 2:18
And in that day I will make an agreement for them with the beasts of the field and the birds of heaven and the things which go low on the earth; I will put an end to the bow and the sword and war in all the land, and will make them take their rest in peace.
Hosea 2:19
And I will take you as my bride for ever; truly, I will take you as my bride in righteousness and in right judging, in love and in mercies.
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Psalms 25:8
Good and upright is the Lord: so he will be the teacher of sinners in the way.
Psalms 25:9
He will be an upright guide to the poor in spirit: he will make his way clear to them.
Psalms 25:10
All the ways of the Lord are mercy and good faith for those who keep his agreement and his witness.
Psalms 25:11
Because of your name, O Lord, let me have forgiveness for my sin, which is very great.
Psalms 25:12
If a man has the fear of the Lord, the Lord will be his teacher in the way of his pleasure.
Psalms 32:8
I will give you knowledge, teaching you the way to go; my eye will be your guide.
Proverbs 3:6
In all your ways give ear to him, and he will make straight your footsteps.
Proverbs 8:20
I go in the road of righteousness, in the way of right judging:
2 Thessalonians 3:5
And may your hearts be guided by the Lord into the love of God and quiet waiting for Christ.
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Psalms 49:16
Have no fear when wealth comes to a man, and the glory of his house is increased;
Psalms 62:10
Have no faith in the rewards of evil-doing, or in profits wrongly made: if your wealth is increased, do not put your hopes on it.
Jeremiah 17:11
Like the partridge, getting eggs together but not producing young, is a man who gets wealth but not by right; before half his days are ended, it will go from him, and at his end he will be foolish.
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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.
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.
Psalms 50:14
Make an offering of praise to God; keep the agreements which you have made with the Most High;
Psalms 51:18
Do good to Zion in your good pleasure, building up the walls of Jerusalem.
Psalms 146:8
The Lord makes open the eyes of the blind; the Lord is the lifter up of those who are bent down; the Lord is a lover of the upright;
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 2:22
Have no more to do with man, whose life is only a breath, for he is of no value.
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.
John 4:24
God is Spirit: then let his worshippers give him worship in the true way of the spirit.
Hebrews 9:14
How much more will the blood of Christ, who, being without sin, made an offering of himself to God through the Holy Spirit, make your hearts clean from dead works to be servants of the living God?
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Psalms 58:3
The evil-doers are strange from the first; from the hour of their birth they go out of the true way, saying false words.
Psalms 64:7
But God sends out an arrow against them; suddenly they are wounded.
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2 Samuel 7:14
I will be to him a father and he will be to me a son: if he does wrong, I will give him punishment with the rod of men and with the blows of the children of men;
2 Samuel 7:15
But my mercy will not be taken away from him, as I took it from him who was before you.
2 Samuel 7:16
And your family and your kingdom will keep their place before me for ever: the seat of your authority will never be overturned.
1 Chronicles 17:11
And when the time comes for you to go to your fathers, I will put in your place your seed after you, one of your sons, and I will make his kingdom strong.
1 Chronicles 17:12
He will be the builder of my house, and I will make the seat of his authority certain for ever.
1 Chronicles 17:13
I will be to him a father and he will be to me a son; and I will not take my mercy away from him as I took it from him who was before you;
1 Chronicles 17:14
But I will make his place in my house and in my kingdom certain for ever; and the seat of his authority will never be overturned.
Psalms 89:3
I have made an agreement with the man of my selection, I have made an oath to David my servant;
Psalms 89:28
I will keep my mercy for him for ever; my agreement with him will not be changed.
Jeremiah 33:25
The Lord has said, If I have not made day and night, and if the limits of heaven and earth have not been fixed by me,
Jeremiah 33:26
Then I will give up caring for the seed of Jacob and of David my servant, so that I will not take of his seed to be rulers over the seed of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob: for I will let their fate be changed and will have mercy on them.
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Psalms 107:42
The upright see it and are glad: the mouth of the sinner is stopped.
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Exodus 31:16
And the children of Israel are to keep the Sabbath holy, from generation to generation, by an eternal agreement.
Exodus 34:7
Having mercy on thousands, overlooking evil and wrongdoing and sin; he will not let wrongdoers go free, but will send punishment on children for the sins of their fathers, and on their children's children to the third and fourth generation.
Psalms 103:17
But the mercy of the Lord is eternal for his worshippers, and their children's children will see his righteousness;
Isaiah 30:18
For this cause the Lord will be waiting, so that he may be kind to you; and he will be lifted up, so that he may have mercy on you; for the Lord is a God of righteousness: there is a blessing on all whose hope is in him.
Isaiah 54:8
In overflowing wrath my face was veiled from you for a minute, but I will have pity on you for ever, says the Lord who takes up your cause.
Isaiah 56:4
For the Lord says, As for the unsexed who keep my Sabbaths, and give their hearts to pleasing me, and keep their agreement with me:
Isaiah 56:6
And as for those from a strange country, who are joined to the Lord, to give worship to him and honour to his name, to be his servants, even everyone who keeps the Sabbath holy, and keeps his agreement with me:
Micah 7:18
Who is a God like you, offering forgiveness for evil-doing and overlooking the sins of the rest of his heritage? he does not keep his wrath for ever, because his delight is in mercy.
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Isaiah 49:18
Let your eyes be lifted up round about, and see: they are all coming together to you. By my life, says the Lord, truly you will put them all on you as an ornament, and be clothed with them like a bride.
Isaiah 54:3
For I will make wide your limits on the right hand and on the left; and your seed will take the nations for a heritage, and make the waste towns full of people.
Isaiah 60:10
And men from strange countries will be building up your walls, and their kings will be your servants: for in my wrath I sent punishment on you, but in my grace I have had mercy on you.
Isaiah 60:11
Your doors will be open at all times; they will not be shut day or night; so that men may come into you with the wealth of the nations, with their kings at their head.
Isaiah 60:12
For the nation or kingdom which will not be your servant will come to destruction; such nations will be completely waste.
Isaiah 60:13
The glory of Lebanon will come to you, the cypress, the plane, and the sherbin-tree together, to make my holy place beautiful; and the resting-place of my feet will be full of glory.
Isaiah 60:15
And though you were turned away from, and hated, and had no helper, I will make you a pride for ever, a joy from generation to generation.
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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 15:24
And Saul said to Samuel, Great is my sin: for I have gone against the orders of the Lord and against your words: because, fearing the people, I did what they said.
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.
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.
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Psalms 50:5
Let my saints come together to me; those who have made an agreement with me by offerings.
Isaiah 38:3
O Lord, keep in mind how I have been true to you with all my heart, and have done what is good in your eyes. And Hezekiah gave way to bitter weeping.
Isaiah 66:5
Give ear to the word of the Lord, you who are in fear at his word: your countrymen, hating you, and driving you out because of my name, have said, Let the Lord's glory be made clear, so that we may see your joy; but they will be put to shame.
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.
Romans 11:25
For it is my desire, brothers, that this secret may be clear to you, so that you may not have pride in your knowledge, that Israel has been made hard in part, till all the Gentiles have come in;
1 John 3:17
But if a man has this world's goods, and sees that his brother is in need, and keeps his heart shut against his brother, how is it possible for the love of God to be in him?
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Psalms 40:8
My delight is to do your pleasure, O my God; truly, your law is in my heart.
Psalms 51:15
O Lord, let my lips be open, so that my mouth may make clear your praise.
Psalms 51:16
You have no desire for an offering or I would give it; you have no delight in burned offerings.
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.
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.
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:
Hosea 6:6
Because my desire is for mercy and not offerings; for the knowledge of God more than for burned offerings.
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 1:11
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.
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.
Hebrews 13:16
But go on doing good and giving to others, because God is well-pleased with such offerings.
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Ezekiel 29:20
I have given him the land of Egypt as the reward for his hard work, because they were working for me, says the Lord.
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Ezekiel 36:26
And I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit in you: I will take away the heart of stone from your flesh, and give you a heart of flesh.
Ezekiel 36:27
And I will put my spirit in you, causing you to be guided by my rules, and you will keep my orders and do them.
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.
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Psalms 45:6
Your seat of power, O God, is for ever and ever; the rod of your kingdom is a rod of honour.
Isaiah 9:6
For to us a child has come, to us a son is given; and the government has been placed in his hands; and he has been named Wise Guide, Strong God, Father for ever, Prince of Peace.
Isaiah 9:7
Of the increase of his rule and of peace there will be no end, on the seat of David, and in his kingdom; to make it strong, supporting it with wise decision and righteousness, now and for ever. By the fixed purpose of the Lord of armies this will be done.
Ezekiel 37:25
And they will be living in the land which I gave to Jacob, my servant, in which your fathers were living; and they will go on living there, they and their children and their children's children, for ever: and David, my servant, will be their ruler for ever.
Malachi 3:1
See, I am sending my servant, and he will make ready the way before me; and the Lord, whom you are looking for, will suddenly come to his Temple; and the angel of the agreement, in whom you have delight, see, he is coming, says the Lord of armies.
Malachi 3:2
But by whom may the day of his coming be faced? and who may keep his place when he is seen? for he is like the metal-tester's fire and the cleaner's soap.
Malachi 4:2
But to you who give worship to my name, the sun of righteousness will come up with new life in its wings; and you will go out, playing like young oxen full of food.
Hebrews 1:9
You have been a lover of righteousness and a hater of evil; and so God, your God, has put the oil of joy on your head more than on the heads of those who are with you.
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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.
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Hosea 9:3
They will have no resting-place in the Lord's land, but Ephraim will go back to Egypt, and they will take unclean food in Assyria.
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Leviticus 7:16
But if his offering is made because of an oath or given freely, it may be taken as food on the day when it is offered; and the rest may be used up on the day after:
Deuteronomy 12:6
And there you are to take your burned offerings and other offerings, and the tenth part of your goods, and the offerings to be lifted up to the Lord, and the offerings of your oaths, and those which you give freely from the impulse of your hearts, and the first births among your herds and your flocks;
Deuteronomy 23:21
When you take an oath to the Lord, do not be slow to give effect to it: for without doubt the Lord your God will make you responsible, and will put it to your account as sin.
Psalms 5:4
For you are not a God who takes pleasure in wrongdoing; there is no evil with you.
Psalms 5:6
You will send destruction on those whose words are false; the cruel man and the man of deceit are hated by the Lord.
Psalms 11:5
The Lord puts the upright and the sinner to the test, but he has hate in his soul for the lover of violent acts.
Habakkuk 1:13
Before your holy eyes sin may not be seen, and you are unable to put up with wrong; why, then, are your eyes on the false? why do you say nothing when the evil-doer puts an end to one who is more upright than himself?
Zechariah 8:16
These are the things which you are to do: Let every man say what is true to his neighbour; and let your judging give peace in your towns.
Zechariah 8:17
Let no one have any evil thought in his heart against his neighbour; and have no love for false oaths: for all these things are hated by me, says the Lord.
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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.
Isaiah 42:21
It was the Lord's pleasure, because of his righteousness, to make the teaching great and give it honour.
Isaiah 61:1
The spirit of the Lord is on me, because I am marked out by him to give good news to the poor; he has sent me to make the broken-hearted well, to say that the prisoners will be made free, and that those in chains will see the light again;
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.
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 1:12
But you make it unholy by saying, The Lord's table has become unclean, and his food is of no value.
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,
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.
Hebrews 7:26
It was right for us to have such a high priest, one who is holy and without evil, doing no wrong, having no part with sinners, and made higher than the heavens:
Hebrews 13:21
Make you full of every good work and ready to do all his desires, working in us whatever is pleasing in his eyes through Jesus Christ; and may the glory be given to him for ever and ever. So be it.
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Matthew 27:6
And the chief priests took the silver and said, It is not right to put it in the Temple store for it is the price of blood.
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Matthew 26:27
And he took a cup and, having given praise, he gave it to them, saying,
Matthew 26:28
Take of it, all of you, for this is my blood of the testament, which is given for men for the forgiveness of sins.
Luke 22:20
And in the same way, after the meal, he took the cup, saying, This cup is the new testament, made with my blood which is given for you.
1 Corinthians 11:25
In the same way, with the cup, after the meal, he said, This cup is the new testament in my blood: do this, whenever you take it, in memory of me.
2 Corinthians 3:6
Who has made us able to be servants of a new agreement; not of the letter, but of the Spirit: for the letter gives death, but the Spirit gives life.
Hebrews 8:8
For, protesting against them, he says, See, the days are coming when I will make a new agreement with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah;
Hebrews 8:11
And there will be no need for every man to be teaching his brother, or his neighbour, saying, This is the knowledge of the Lord: for they will all have knowledge of me, great and small.
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Exodus 27:1
And make an altar of hard wood, a square altar, five cubits long, five cubits wide and three cubits high.
Exodus 38:1
The altar of burned offerings he made of hard wood; a square altar, five cubits long, five cubits wide and three cubits high,
2 Chronicles 29:23
Then they took the he-goats for the sin-offering, placing them before the king and the meeting of the people, and they put their hands on them:
2 Chronicles 29:24
And the priests put them to death, and made a sin-offering with their blood on the altar, to take away the sin of all Israel: for the king gave orders that the burned offering and the sin-offering were for all Israel.
Ezekiel 44:11
But they may be caretakers in my holy place, and overseers at the doors of the house, doing the work of the house: they will put to death the burned offering and the beasts offered for the people, and they will take their place before them as their servants.
Hebrews 13:10
We have an altar from which those priests who are servants in the Tent may not take food.
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