Proverbs 21:27

Proverbs 21:27
The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination— how much more, when he brings it with a wicked mind!

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Numbers 23:1
Balaam said to Balak, “Build here seven altars for me, and prepare here seven bulls and seven rams for me.”

Psalms 50:17
since you hate instruction, and throw my words behind you?

Psalms 50:18
When you saw a thief, you consented with him, and have participated with adulterers.

Psalms 50:19
“You give your mouth to evil. Your tongue frames deceit.

Psalms 50:20
You sit and speak against your brother. You slander your own mother’s son.

Psalms 50:21
You have done these things, and I kept silent. You thought that I was just like you. I will rebuke you, and accuse you in front of your eyes.

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Deuteronomy 12:6
You shall bring your burnt offerings, your sacrifices, your tithes, the wave offering of your hand, your vows, your free will offerings, and the firstborn of your herd and of your flock there.

Proverbs 7:14
“Sacrifices of peace offerings are with me. Today I have paid my vows.

Proverbs 17:1
Better is a dry morsel with quietness, than a house full of feasting with strife.

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1 Samuel 13:12
therefore I said, ‘Now the Philistines will come down on me to Gilgal, and I haven’t entreated the favor of Yahweh.’ I forced myself therefore, and offered the burnt offering.”

Ezekiel 20:3
“Son of man, speak to the elders of Israel, and tell them, ‘The Lord Yahweh says: “Is it to inquire of me that you have come? As I live,” says the Lord Yahweh, “I will not be inquired of by you.” ’

James 4:3
You ask, and don’t receive, because you ask with wrong motives, so that you may spend it on your pleasures.

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2 Samuel 15:7
At the end of forty years, Absalom said to the king, “Please let me go and pay my vow, which I have vowed to Yahweh, in Hebron.

1 Kings 21:9
She wrote in the letters, saying, “Proclaim a fast, and set Naboth on high among the people.

1 Kings 21:12
They proclaimed a fast, and set Naboth on high among the people.

Isaiah 58:4
Behold, you fast for strife and contention, and to strike with the fist of wickedness. You don’t fast today so as to make your voice to be heard on high.

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Proverbs 21:4
A high look and a proud heart, the lamp of the wicked, is sin.

Proverbs 21:28
A false witness will perish. A man who listens speaks to eternity.

Proverbs 21:29
A wicked man hardens his face; but as for the upright, he establishes his ways.

Proverbs 21:31
The horse is prepared for the day of battle; but victory is with Yahweh.

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Jeremiah 7:23
but this thing I commanded them, saying, ‘Listen to my voice, and I will be your God, and you shall be my people. Walk in all the way that I command you, that it may be well with you.’

Hosea 5:6
They will go with their flocks and with their herds to seek Yahweh, but they won’t find him. He has withdrawn himself from them.

Hosea 8:13
As for the sacrifices of my offerings, they sacrifice meat and eat it, but Yahweh doesn’t accept them. Now he will remember their iniquity, and punish their sins. They will return to Egypt.

Micah 6:7
Will Yahweh be pleased with thousands of rams? With tens of thousands of rivers of oil? Shall I give my firstborn for my disobedience? The fruit of my body for the sin of my soul?

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Hebrews 11:4
By faith Abel offered to God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, through which he had testimony given to him that he was righteous, God testifying with respect to his gifts; and through it he, being dead, still speaks.

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