Romans 12:1
Therefore I urge you, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service.
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Romans 12:1
Therefore I urge you, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service.
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Romans 12:2
Don’t be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what is the good, well-pleasing, and perfect will of God.
1 Peter 2:5
You also as living stones are built up as a spiritual house, to be a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.
1 Peter 2:9
But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession, that you may proclaim the excellence of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.
Romans 14:18
For he who serves Christ in these things is acceptable to God and approved by men.
Ephesians 5:2
Walk in love, even as Christ also loved us and gave himself up for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet-smelling fragrance.
2 Corinthians 5:9
Therefore also we make it our aim, whether at home or absent, to be well pleasing to him.
Revelation 5:10
and made us kings and priests to our God; and we will reign on the earth.”
Acts 10:35
but in every nation he who fears him and works righteousness is acceptable to him.
Romans 12:21
Don’t be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.
Exodus 24:6
Moses took half of the blood and put it in basins, and half of the blood he sprinkled on the altar.
Psalms 19:14
Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable in your sight, Yahweh, my rock, and my redeemer.
Luke 2:22
When the days of their purification according to the law of Moses were fulfilled, they brought him up to Jerusalem to present him to the Lord
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Hebrews 13:15
Through him, then, let’s offer up a sacrifice of praise to God continually, that is, the fruit of lips which proclaim allegiance to his name.
Hebrews 13:16
But don’t forget to be doing good and sharing, for with such sacrifices God is well pleased.
Romans 15:16
that I should be a servant of Christ Jesus to the Gentiles, serving as a priest of the Good News of God, that the offering up of the Gentiles might be made acceptable, sanctified by the Holy Spirit.
Isaiah 56:7
I will bring these to my holy mountain, and make them joyful in my house of prayer. Their burnt offerings and their sacrifices will be accepted on my altar; for my house will be called a house of prayer for all peoples.”
Malachi 1:11
For from the rising of the sun even to its going down, my name is great among the nations, and in every place incense will be offered to my name, and a pure offering; for my name is great among the nations,” says Yahweh of Armies.
Hosea 14:2
Take words with you, and return to Yahweh. Tell him, “Forgive all our sins, and accept that which is good; so we offer bulls as we vowed of our lips.
Hebrews 13:10
We have an altar from which those who serve the holy tabernacle have no right to eat.
Isaiah 60:7
All the flocks of Kedar will be gathered together to you. The rams of Nebaioth will serve you. They will be accepted as offerings on my altar; and I will beautify my glorious house.
2 Samuel 24:2
The king said to Joab the captain of the army, who was with him, “Now go back and forth through all the tribes of Israel, from Dan even to Beersheba, and count the people, that I may know the sum of the people.”
Psalms 119:108
Accept, I beg you, the willing offerings of my mouth. Yahweh, teach me your ordinances.
Ezekiel 20:40
For in my holy mountain, in the mountain of the height of Israel,” says the Lord Yahweh, “there all the house of Israel, all of them, shall serve me in the land. There I will accept them, and there I will require your offerings and the first fruits of your offerings, with all your holy things.
Revelation 8:3
Another angel came and stood over the altar, having a golden censer. Much incense was given to him, that he should add it to the prayers of all the saints on the golden altar which was before the throne.
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Romans 6:13
Also, do not present your members to sin as instruments of unrighteousness, but present yourselves to God as alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness to God.
Romans 6:14
For sin will not have dominion over you, for you are not under law, but under grace.
Philippians 1:20
according to my earnest expectation and hope, that I will in no way be disappointed, but with all boldness, as always, now also Christ will be magnified in my body, whether by life or by death.
Romans 14:8
For if we live, we live to the Lord. Or if we die, we die to the Lord. If therefore we live or die, we are the Lord’s.
Romans 6:16
Don’t you know that when you present yourselves as servants and obey someone, you are the servants of whomever you obey, whether of sin to death, or of obedience to righteousness?
Leviticus 8:23
He killed it; and Moses took some of its blood, and put it on the tip of Aaron’s right ear, and on the thumb of his right hand, and on the great toe of his right foot.
2 Timothy 2:21
If anyone therefore purges himself from these, he will be a vessel for honor, sanctified, and suitable for the master’s use, prepared for every good work.
Leviticus 14:14
The priest shall take some of the blood of the trespass offering, and the priest shall put it on the tip of the right ear of him who is to be cleansed, and on the thumb of his right hand, and on the big toe of his right foot.
Leviticus 14:17
The priest shall put some of the rest of the oil that is in his hand on the tip of the right ear of him who is to be cleansed, and on the thumb of his right hand, and on the big toe of his right foot, upon the blood of the trespass offering.
Romans 6:18
Being made free from sin, you became bondservants of righteousness.
1 Corinthians 10:31
Whether therefore you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.
1 Thessalonians 4:3
For this is the will of God: your sanctification, that you abstain from sexual immorality,
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Philippians 4:18
But I have all things and abound. I am filled, having received from Epaphroditus the things that came from you, a sweet-smelling fragrance, an acceptable and well-pleasing sacrifice to God.
Philippians 2:17
Yes, and if I am poured out on the sacrifice and service of your faith, I am glad and rejoice with you all.
Psalms 51:19
Then you will delight in the sacrifices of righteousness, in burnt offerings and in whole burnt offerings. Then they will offer bulls on your altar.
Exodus 32:29
Moses said, “Consecrate yourselves today to Yahweh, for every man was against his son and against his brother, that he may give you a blessing today.”
1 Chronicles 29:5
of gold for the things of gold, and of silver for the things of silver, and for all kinds of work to be made by the hands of artisans. Who then offers willingly to consecrate himself today to Yahweh?”
2 Chronicles 29:31
Then Hezekiah answered, “Now you have consecrated yourselves to Yahweh. Come near and bring sacrifices and thank offerings into Yahweh’s house.” The assembly brought in sacrifices and thank offerings, and as many as were of a willing heart brought burnt offerings.
Psalms 107:22
Let them offer the sacrifices of thanksgiving, and declare his deeds with singing.
Isaiah 60:6
A multitude of camels will cover you, the dromedaries of Midian and Ephah. All from Sheba will come. They will bring gold and frankincense, and will proclaim the praises of Yahweh.
Psalms 51:16
For you don’t delight in sacrifice, or else I would give it. You have no pleasure in burnt offering.
Psalms 69:31
It will please Yahweh better than an ox, or a bull that has horns and hoofs.
Zechariah 13:9
I will bring the third part into the fire, and will refine them as silver is refined, and will test them like gold is tested. They will call on my name, and I will hear them. I will say, ‘It is my people;’ and they will say, ‘Yahweh is my God.’ ”
Mark 12:33
and to love him with all the heart, with all the understanding, all the soul, and with all the strength, and to love his neighbor as himself, is more important than all whole burnt offerings and sacrifices.”
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1 Corinthians 6:19
Or don’t you know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God? You are not your own,
1 Corinthians 6:20
for you were bought with a price. Therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God’s.
Romans 6:19
I speak in human terms because of the weakness of your flesh; for as you presented your members as servants to uncleanness and to wickedness upon wickedness, even so now present your members as servants to righteousness for sanctification.
Romans 6:12
Therefore don’t let sin reign in your mortal body, that you should obey it in its lusts.
1 Thessalonians 5:23
May the God of peace himself sanctify you completely. May your whole spirit, soul, and body be preserved blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Exodus 29:20
Then you shall kill the ram, and take some of its blood, and put it on the tip of the right ear of Aaron, and on the tip of the right ear of his sons, and on the thumb of their right hand, and on the big toe of their right foot; and sprinkle the blood around on the altar.
1 Corinthians 3:16
Don’t you know that you are God’s temple and that God’s Spirit lives in you?
2 Corinthians 7:1
Having therefore these promises, beloved, let’s cleanse ourselves from all defilement of flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.
Luke 1:74
to grant to us that we, being delivered out of the hand of our enemies, should serve him without fear,
John 17:17
Sanctify them in your truth. Your word is truth.
John 17:19
For their sakes I sanctify myself, that they themselves also may be sanctified in truth.
Romans 8:13
For if you live after the flesh, you must die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live.
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Revelation 1:5
and from Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead, and the ruler of the kings of the earth. To him who loves us, and washed us from our sins by his blood—
Revelation 1:6
and he made us to be a Kingdom, priests to his God and Father—to him be the glory and the dominion forever and ever. Amen.
Hebrews 9:14
how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without defect to God, cleanse your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?
1 Peter 2:11
Beloved, I beg you as foreigners and pilgrims to abstain from fleshly lusts which war against the soul,
Revelation 20:6
Blessed and holy is he who has part in the first resurrection. Over these, the second death has no power, but they will be priests of God and of Christ, and will reign with him one thousand years.
Ephesians 5:27
that he might present the assembly to himself gloriously, not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing, but that she should be holy and without defect.
Colossians 1:22
yet now he has reconciled in the body of his flesh through death, to present you holy and without defect and blameless before him,
Romans 3:25
whom God sent to be an atoning sacrifice through faith in his blood, for a demonstration of his righteousness through the passing over of prior sins, in God’s forbearance;
Galatians 4:3
So we also, when we were children, were held in bondage under the elemental principles of the world.
2 Timothy 2:15
Give diligence to present yourself approved by God, a workman who doesn’t need to be ashamed, properly handling the Word of Truth.
Hebrews 10:20
by the way which he dedicated for us, a new and living way, through the veil, that is to say, his flesh,
Hebrews 10:22
let’s draw near with a true heart in fullness of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience and having our body washed with pure water,
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Ephesians 5:10
proving what is well pleasing to the Lord.
1 Peter 2:2
as newborn babies, long for the pure spiritual milk, that with it you may grow,
2 Corinthians 1:3
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort,
Colossians 3:12
Put on therefore, as God’s chosen ones, holy and beloved, a heart of compassion, kindness, lowliness, humility, and perseverance;
1 Thessalonians 4:1
Finally then, brothers, we beg and exhort you in the Lord Jesus, that as you received from us how you ought to walk and to please God, that you abound more and more.
Hebrews 13:21
make you complete in every good work to do his will, working in you that which is well pleasing in his sight, through Jesus Christ, to whom be the glory forever and ever. Amen.
2 Chronicles 5:11
When the priests had come out of the holy place (for all the priests who were present had sanctified themselves, and didn’t keep their divisions;
Ezekiel 48:11
It shall be for the priests who are sanctified of the sons of Zadok, who have kept my instruction, who didn’t go astray when the children of Israel went astray, as the Levites went astray.
John 12:26
If anyone serves me, let him follow me. Where I am, there my servant will also be. If anyone serves me, the Father will honor him.
Ephesians 4:23
and that you be renewed in the spirit of your mind,
Ephesians 4:25
Therefore, putting away falsehood, speak truth each one with his neighbor, for we are members of one another.
Revelation 7:15
Therefore they are before the throne of God, and they serve him day and night in his temple. He who sits on the throne will spread his tabernacle over them.
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2 Corinthians 5:20
We are therefore ambassadors on behalf of Christ, as though God were entreating by us: we beg you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God.
2 Corinthians 6:1
Working together, we entreat also that you do not receive the grace of God in vain.
Romans 15:30
Now I beg you, brothers, by our Lord Jesus Christ and by the love of the Spirit, that you strive together with me in your prayers to God for me,
2 Corinthians 10:1
Now I Paul, myself, entreat you by the humility and gentleness of Christ, I who in your presence am lowly among you, but being absent am bold toward you.
Ephesians 4:1
I therefore, the prisoner in the Lord, beg you to walk worthily of the calling with which you were called,
Philemon 1:9
yet for love’s sake I rather appeal to you, being such a one as Paul, the aged, but also a prisoner of Jesus Christ.
Philemon 1:10
I appeal to you for my child Onesimus, whom I have become the father of in my chains,
1 Corinthians 1:10
Now I beg you, brothers, through the name of our Lord, Jesus Christ, that you all speak the same thing, and that there be no divisions among you, but that you be perfected together in the same mind and in the same judgment.
Galatians 4:12
I beg you, brothers, become as I am, for I also have become as you are. You did me no wrong,
1 Corinthians 4:16
I beg you therefore, be imitators of me.
Hebrews 13:22
But I exhort you, brothers, endure the word of exhortation, for I have written to you in few words.
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Isaiah 61:6
But you will be called Yahweh’s priests. Men will call you the servants of our God. You will eat the wealth of the nations. You will boast in their glory.
1 Peter 2:20
For what glory is it if, when you sin, you patiently endure beating? But if when you do well, you patiently endure suffering, this is commendable with God.
Romans 11:36
For of him and through him and to him are all things. To him be the glory for ever! Amen.
1 Timothy 5:4
But if any widow has children or grandchildren, let them learn first to show piety toward their own family and to repay their parents, for this is acceptable in the sight of God.
Exodus 19:6
and you shall be to me a kingdom of priests and a holy nation.’ These are the words which you shall speak to the children of Israel.”
Ephesians 1:4
even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we would be holy and without defect before him in love,
Ephesians 1:6
to the praise of the glory of his grace, by which he freely gave us favor in the Beloved.
1 Timothy 2:3
For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Savior,
1 Chronicles 15:12
and said to them, “You are the heads of the fathers’ households of the Levites. Sanctify yourselves, both you and your brothers, that you may bring the ark of Yahweh, the God of Israel, up to the place that I have prepared for it.
Isaiah 61:10
I will greatly rejoice in Yahweh! My soul will be joyful in my God, for he has clothed me with the garments of salvation. He has covered me with the robe of righteousness, as a bridegroom decks himself with a garland and as a bride adorns herself with her jewels.
Romans 9:15
For he said to Moses, “I will have mercy on whom I have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion.”
Romans 13:14
But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh, for its lusts.
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Romans 12:3
For I say through the grace that was given me, to everyone who is among you, not to think of yourself more highly than you ought to think; but to think reasonably, as God has apportioned to each person a measure of faith.
Romans 12:4
For even as we have many members in one body, and all the members don’t have the same function,
Romans 12:6
having gifts differing according to the grace that was given to us: if prophecy, let’s prophesy according to the proportion of our faith;
Romans 12:7
or service, let’s give ourselves to service; or he who teaches, to his teaching;
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2 Corinthians 5:14
For the love of Christ compels us; because we judge thus: that one died for all, therefore all died.
2 Corinthians 5:15
He died for all, that those who live should no longer live to themselves, but to him who for their sakes died and rose again.
Romans 14:7
For none of us lives to himself, and none dies to himself.
1 Corinthians 6:13
“Foods for the belly, and the belly for foods,” but God will bring to nothing both it and them. But the body is not for sexual immorality, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body.
1 Corinthians 6:14
Now God raised up the Lord, and will also raise us up by his power.
1 Corinthians 6:15
Don’t you know that your bodies are members of Christ? Shall I then take the members of Christ and make them members of a prostitute? May it never be!
Romans 14:9
For to this end Christ died, rose, and lived again, that he might be Lord of both the dead and the living.
2 Corinthians 8:5
This was not as we had expected, but first they gave their own selves to the Lord, and to us through the will of God.
Daniel 3:28
Nebuchadnezzar spoke and said, “Blessed be the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, who has sent his angel and delivered his servants who trusted in him, and have changed the king’s word, and have yielded their bodies, that they might not serve nor worship any god except their own God.
2 Chronicles 30:8
Now don’t be stiff-necked, as your fathers were, but yield yourselves to Yahweh, and enter into his sanctuary, which he has sanctified forever, and serve Yahweh your God, that his fierce anger may turn away from you.
Matthew 5:16
Even so, let your light shine before men, that they may see your good works and glorify your Father who is in heaven.
James 3:6
And the tongue is a fire. The world of iniquity among our members is the tongue, which defiles the whole body, and sets on fire the course of nature, and is set on fire by Gehenna.
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Proverbs 23:26
My son, give me your heart; and let your eyes keep in my ways.
Leviticus 1:9
but he shall wash its innards and its legs with water. The priest shall burn all of it on the altar, for a burnt offering, an offering made by fire, of a pleasant aroma to Yahweh.
Leviticus 22:21
Whoever offers a sacrifice of peace offerings to Yahweh to accomplish a vow, or for a free will offering of the herd or of the flock, it shall be perfect to be accepted. It shall have no defect.
Deuteronomy 15:21
If it has any defect—is lame or blind, or has any defect whatever, you shall not sacrifice it to Yahweh your God.
Psalms 22:14
I am poured out like water. All my bones are out of joint. My heart is like wax. It is melted within me.
Matthew 22:37
Jesus said to him, “ ‘You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.’
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Psalms 50:23
Whoever offers the sacrifice of thanksgiving glorifies me, and prepares his way so that I will show God’s salvation to him.”
Isaiah 66:20
They shall bring all your brothers out of all the nations for an offering to Yahweh, on horses, in chariots, in litters, on mules, and on camels, to my holy mountain Jerusalem, says Yahweh, as the children of Israel bring their offering in a clean vessel into Yahweh’s house.
Isaiah 1:18
“Come now, and let’s reason together,” says Yahweh: “Though your sins are as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow. Though they are red like crimson, they shall be as wool.
Malachi 3:3
and he will sit as a refiner and purifier of silver, and he will purify the sons of Levi, and refine them as gold and silver; and they shall offer to Yahweh offerings in righteousness.
Malachi 3:4
Then the offering of Judah and Jerusalem will be pleasant to Yahweh as in the days of old and as in ancient years.
Psalms 50:15
Call on me in the day of trouble. I will deliver you, and you will honor me.”
Psalms 69:30
I will praise the name of God with a song, and will magnify him with thanksgiving.
Psalms 86:12
I will praise you, Lord my God, with my whole heart. I will glorify your name forever more.
Psalms 103:2
Praise Yahweh, my soul, and don’t forget all his benefits,
Isaiah 19:21
Yahweh will be known to Egypt, and the Egyptians will know Yahweh in that day. Yes, they will worship with sacrifice and offering, and will vow a vow to Yahweh, and will perform it.
Ezekiel 46:24
Then he said to me, “These are the boiling houses, where the ministers of the house shall boil the sacrifice of the people.”
2 Timothy 4:6
For I am already being offered, and the time of my departure has come.
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Leviticus 1:3
“ ‘If his offering is a burnt offering from the herd, he shall offer a male without defect. He shall offer it at the door of the Tent of Meeting, that he may be accepted before Yahweh.
Leviticus 1:4
He shall lay his hand on the head of the burnt offering, and it shall be accepted for him to make atonement for him.
Exodus 29:18
You shall burn the whole ram on the altar: it is a burnt offering to Yahweh; it is a pleasant aroma, an offering made by fire to Yahweh.
Job 42:8
Now therefore, take to yourselves seven bulls and seven rams, and go to my servant Job, and offer up for yourselves a burnt offering; and my servant Job shall pray for you, for I will accept him, that I not deal with you according to your folly. For you have not spoken of me the thing that is right, as my servant Job has.”
Malachi 1:8
When you offer the blind for sacrifice, isn’t that evil? And when you offer the lame and sick, isn’t that evil? Present it now to your governor! Will he be pleased with you? Or will he accept your person?” says Yahweh of Armies.
Genesis 4:3
As time passed, Cain brought an offering to Yahweh from the fruit of the ground.
Genesis 4:4
Abel also brought some of the firstborn of his flock and of its fat. Yahweh respected Abel and his offering,
Genesis 4:7
If you do well, won’t it be lifted up? If you don’t do well, sin crouches at the door. Its desire is for you, but you are to rule over it.”
Genesis 8:20
Noah built an altar to Yahweh, and took of every clean animal, and of every clean bird, and offered burnt offerings on the altar.
Leviticus 1:10
“ ‘If his offering is from the flock, from the sheep or from the goats, for a burnt offering, he shall offer a male without defect.
Leviticus 2:9
The priest shall take from the meal offering its memorial, and shall burn it on the altar, an offering made by fire, of a pleasant aroma to Yahweh.
Leviticus 22:19
that you may be accepted, you shall offer a male without defect, of the bulls, of the sheep, or of the goats.
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Psalms 50:13
Will I eat the meat of bulls, or drink the blood of goats?
Psalms 50:14
Offer to God the sacrifice of thanksgiving. Pay your vows to the Most High.
Psalms 51:17
The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit. O God, you will not despise a broken and contrite heart.
Psalms 4:5
Offer the sacrifices of righteousness. Put your trust in Yahweh.
Psalms 141:2
Let my prayer be set before you like incense; the lifting up of my hands like the evening sacrifice.
Jeremiah 33:11
the voice of joy and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride, the voice of those who say, ‘Give thanks to Yahweh of Armies, for Yahweh is good, for his loving kindness endures forever;’ who bring thanksgiving into Yahweh’s house. For I will cause the captivity of the land to be reversed as at the first,” says Yahweh.
John 4:23
But the hour comes, and now is, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for the Father seeks such to be his worshipers.
John 4:24
God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth.”
Psalms 96:8
Ascribe to Yahweh the glory due to his name. Bring an offering, and come into his courts.
Psalms 116:17
I will offer to you the sacrifice of thanksgiving, and will call on Yahweh’s name.
Hebrews 13:13
Let’s therefore go out to him outside of the camp, bearing his reproach.
Revelation 8:4
The smoke of the incense, with the prayers of the saints, went up before God out of the angel’s hand.
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1 Corinthians 6:16
Or don’t you know that he who is joined to a prostitute is one body? For, “The two”, he says, “will become one flesh.”
1 Corinthians 6:17
But he who is joined to the Lord is one spirit.
1 Corinthians 6:18
Flee sexual immorality! “Every sin that a man does is outside the body,” but he who commits sexual immorality sins against his own body.
1 Thessalonians 4:4
that each one of you know how to control his own body in sanctification and honor,
Romans 6:2
May it never be! We who died to sin, how could we live in it any longer?
Romans 8:12
So then, brothers, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live after the flesh.
1 Corinthians 7:34
There is also a difference between a wife and a virgin. The unmarried woman cares about the things of the Lord, that she may be holy both in body and in spirit. But she who is married cares about the things of the world—how she may please her husband.
Galatians 2:19
For I through the law died to the law, that I might live to God.
Colossians 2:23
These things indeed appear like wisdom in self-imposed worship, humility, and severity to the body, but aren’t of any value against the indulgence of the flesh.
Colossians 3:17
Whatever you do, in word or in deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him.
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Leviticus 11:44
For I am Yahweh your God. Sanctify yourselves therefore, and be holy; for I am holy. You shall not defile yourselves with any kind of creeping thing that moves on the earth.
Leviticus 11:45
For I am Yahweh who brought you up out of the land of Egypt, to be your God. You shall therefore be holy, for I am holy.
1 Thessalonians 4:7
For God called us not for uncleanness, but in sanctification.
1 Peter 1:15
but just as he who called you is holy, you yourselves also be holy in all of your behavior,
Leviticus 19:2
“Speak to all the congregation of the children of Israel, and tell them, ‘You shall be holy; for I, Yahweh your God, am holy.
Numbers 15:40
so that you may remember and do all my commandments, and be holy to your God.
Matthew 5:48
Therefore you shall be perfect, just as your Father in heaven is perfect.
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Psalms 15:1
Yahweh, who shall dwell in your sanctuary? Who shall live on your holy hill?
Psalms 15:2
He who walks blamelessly and does what is right, and speaks truth in his heart;
Psalms 15:3
he who doesn’t slander with his tongue, nor does evil to his friend, nor casts slurs against his fellow man;
Psalms 15:4
in whose eyes a vile man is despised, but who honors those who fear Yahweh; he who keeps an oath even when it hurts, and doesn’t change;
Psalms 15:5
he who doesn’t lend out his money for usury, nor take a bribe against the innocent. He who does these things shall never be shaken.
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Mark 9:49
For everyone will be salted with fire, and every sacrifice will be seasoned with salt.
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John 16:2
They will put you out of the synagogues. Yes, the time is coming that whoever kills you will think that he offers service to God.
Hebrews 9:1
Now indeed even the first covenant had ordinances of divine service and an earthly sanctuary.
Romans 9:4
who are Israelites; whose is the adoption, the glory, the covenants, the giving of the law, the service, and the promises;
Hebrews 9:6
Now these things having been thus prepared, the priests go in continually into the first tabernacle, accomplishing the services,
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Philippians 3:3
For we are the circumcision, who worship God in the Spirit, and rejoice in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in the flesh;
Colossians 3:20
Children, obey your parents in all things, for this pleases the Lord.
Hebrews 10:28
A man who disregards Moses’ law dies without compassion on the word of two or three witnesses.
Jeremiah 33:18
The Levitical priests won’t lack a man before me to offer burnt offerings, to burn meal offerings, and to do sacrifice continually.”
Matthew 16:24
Then Jesus said to his disciples, “If anyone desires to come after me, let him deny himself, take up his cross, and follow me.
Romans 1:17
For in it is revealed God’s righteousness from faith to faith. As it is written, “But the righteous shall live by faith.”
Romans 1:18
For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men who suppress the truth in unrighteousness,
Romans 2:4
Or do you despise the riches of his goodness, forbearance, and patience, not knowing that the goodness of God leads you to repentance?
Romans 15:13
Now may the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that you may abound in hope in the power of the Holy Spirit.
2 Corinthians 11:2
For I am jealous over you with a godly jealousy. For I promised you in marriage to one husband, that I might present you as a pure virgin to Christ.
1 Peter 3:15
But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts. Always be ready to give an answer to everyone who asks you a reason concerning the hope that is in you, with humility and fear,
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Isaiah 1:11
“What are the multitude of your sacrifices to me?”, says Yahweh. “I have had enough of the burnt offerings of rams and the fat of fed animals. I don’t delight in the blood of bulls, or of lambs, or of male goats.
Isaiah 1:12
When you come to appear before me, who has required this at your hand, to trample my courts?
Isaiah 1:13
Bring no more vain offerings. Incense is an abomination to me. New moons, Sabbaths, and convocations— I can’t stand evil assemblies.
Isaiah 1:14
My soul hates your New Moons and your appointed feasts. They are a burden to me. I am weary of bearing them.
Jeremiah 6:20
To what purpose does frankincense from Sheba come to me, and the sweet cane from a far country? Your burnt offerings are not acceptable, and your sacrifices are not pleasing to me.”
Micah 6:6
How shall I come before Yahweh, and bow myself before the exalted God? Shall I come before him with burnt offerings, with calves a year old?
Micah 6:8
He has shown you, O man, what is good. What does Yahweh require of you, but to act justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God?
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Mark 9:50
Salt is good, but if the salt has lost its saltiness, with what will you season it? Have salt in yourselves, and be at peace with one another.”
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Titus 2:9
Exhort servants to be in subjection to their own masters and to be well-pleasing in all things, not contradicting,
Romans 3:3
For what if some were without faith? Will their lack of faith nullify the faithfulness of God?
Romans 3:31
Do we then nullify the law through faith? May it never be! No, we establish the law.
2 Corinthians 4:5
For we don’t preach ourselves, but Christ Jesus as Lord, and ourselves as your servants for Jesus’ sake,
Ephesians 5:9
for the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness and righteousness and truth,
Philippians 1:1
Paul and Timothy, servants of Jesus Christ, to all the saints in Christ Jesus who are at Philippi, with the overseers and servants:
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Leviticus 3:1
“ ‘If his offering is a sacrifice of peace offerings, if he offers it from the herd, whether male or female, he shall offer it without defect before Yahweh.
Leviticus 3:3
He shall offer of the sacrifice of peace offerings an offering made by fire to Yahweh. The fat that covers the innards, and all the fat that is on the innards,
Leviticus 3:4
and the two kidneys, and the fat that is on them, which is by the loins, and the cover on the liver, with the kidneys, he shall take away.
Leviticus 3:5
Aaron’s sons shall burn it on the altar on the burnt offering, which is on the wood that is on the fire: it is an offering made by fire, of a pleasant aroma to Yahweh.
Leviticus 3:8
and he shall lay his hand on the head of his offering, and kill it before the Tent of Meeting. Aaron’s sons shall sprinkle its blood around on the altar.
Leviticus 3:9
He shall offer from the sacrifice of peace offerings an offering made by fire to Yahweh; its fat, the entire tail fat, he shall take away close to the backbone; and the fat that covers the entrails, and all the fat that is on the entrails,
Leviticus 3:10
and the two kidneys, and the fat that is on them, which is by the loins, and the cover on the liver, with the kidneys, he shall take away.
Leviticus 3:11
The priest shall burn it on the altar: it is the food of the offering made by fire to Yahweh.
Leviticus 3:14
He shall offer from it as his offering, an offering made by fire to Yahweh; the fat that covers the innards, and all the fat that is on the innards,
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Ezra 9:13
“After all that has come on us for our evil deeds and for our great guilt, since you, our God, have punished us less than our iniquities deserve, and have given us such a remnant,
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Ezra 9:14
shall we again break your commandments, and join ourselves with the peoples that do these abominations? Wouldn’t you be angry with us until you had consumed us, so that there would be no remnant, nor any to escape?
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Isaiah 1:2
Hear, heavens, and listen, earth; for Yahweh has spoken: “I have nourished and brought up children and they have rebelled against me.
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Isaiah 1:3
The ox knows his owner, and the donkey his master’s crib; but Israel doesn’t know. My people don’t consider.”
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Job 1:6
Now on the day when God’s sons came to present themselves before Yahweh, Satan also came among them.
Isaiah 6:7
He touched my mouth with it, and said, “Behold, this has touched your lips; and your iniquity is taken away, and your sin forgiven.”
Isaiah 6:8
I heard the Lord’s voice, saying, “Whom shall I send, and who will go for us?” Then I said, “Here I am. Send me!”
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Romans 1:24
Therefore God also gave them up in the lusts of their hearts to uncleanness, that their bodies should be dishonored among themselves;
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Romans 1:25
who exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever. Amen.
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1 Corinthians 1:4
I always thank my God concerning you for the grace of God which was given you in Christ Jesus,
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1 Corinthians 1:5
that in everything you were enriched in him, in all speech and all knowledge—
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Philippians 2:18
In the same way, you also should be glad and rejoice with me.
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