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.
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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.
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Genesis 4:4
Abel also brought some of the firstborn of his flock and of its fat. Yahweh respected Abel and his offering,
Genesis 4:5
but he didn’t respect Cain and his offering. Cain was very angry, and the expression on his face fell.
Leviticus 7:18
If any of the meat of the sacrifice of his peace offerings is eaten on the third day, it will not be accepted, and it shall not be credited to him who offers it. It will be an abomination, and the soul who eats any of it will bear his iniquity.
Isaiah 65:4
who sit among the graves, and spend nights in secret places; who eat pig’s meat, and broth of abominable things is in their vessels;
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Exodus 20:7
“You shall not misuse the name of Yahweh your God, for Yahweh will not hold him guiltless who misuses his name.
Mark 7:7
They worship me in vain, teaching as doctrines the commandments of men.’
1 Corinthians 15:2
by which also you are saved, if you hold firmly the word which I preached to you—unless you believed in vain.
James 2:20
But do you want to know, vain man, that faith apart from works is dead?
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Leviticus 23:3
“ ‘Six days shall work be done, but on the seventh day is a Sabbath of solemn rest, a holy convocation; you shall do no kind of work. It is a Sabbath to Yahweh in all your dwellings.
Leviticus 23:36
Seven days you shall offer an offering made by fire to Yahweh. On the eighth day shall be a holy convocation to you. You shall offer an offering made by fire to Yahweh. It is a solemn assembly; you shall do no regular work.
Numbers 29:35
“ ‘On the eighth day you shall have a solemn assembly. You shall do no regular work;
Deuteronomy 16:8
Six days you shall eat unleavened bread. On the seventh day shall be a solemn assembly to Yahweh your God. You shall do no work.
John 7:37
Now on the last and greatest day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried out, “If anyone is thirsty, let him come to me and drink!
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Leviticus 26:31
I will lay your cities waste, and will bring your sanctuaries to desolation. I will not take delight in the sweet fragrance of your offerings.
Daniel 2:46
Then king Nebuchadnezzar fell on his face, worshiped Daniel, and commanded that they should offer an offering and sweet odors to him.
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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.”
1 Samuel 2:17
The sin of the young men was very great before Yahweh; for the men despised Yahweh’s offering.
1 Samuel 15:21
But the people took of the plunder, sheep and cattle, the best of the devoted things, to sacrifice to Yahweh your God in Gilgal.”
1 Samuel 15:23
For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness is as idolatry and teraphim. Because you have rejected Yahweh’s word, he has also rejected you from being king.”
2 Samuel 15:12
Absalom sent for Ahithophel the Gilonite, David’s counselor, from his city, even from Giloh, while he was offering the sacrifices. The conspiracy was strong, for the people increased continually with Absalom.
Psalms 50:10
For every animal of the forest is mine, and the livestock on a thousand hills.
Psalms 50:14
Offer to God the sacrifice of thanksgiving. Pay your vows to the Most High.
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.
Psalms 66:15
I will offer to you burnt offerings of fat animals, with the offering of rams, I will offer bulls with goats. Selah.
Zephaniah 3:10
From beyond the rivers of Cush, my worshipers, even the daughter of my dispersed people, will bring my offering.
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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1 Samuel 20:29
He said, ‘Please let me go, for our family has a sacrifice in the city. My brother has commanded me to be there. Now, if I have found favor in your eyes, please let me go away and see my brothers.’ Therefore he has not come to the king’s table.”
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2 Chronicles 2:4
Behold, I am about to build a house for the name of Yahweh my God, to dedicate it to him, to burn before him incense of sweet spices, for the continual show bread, and for the burnt offerings morning and evening, on the Sabbaths, on the new moons, and on the set feasts of Yahweh our God. This is an ordinance forever to Israel.
2 Chronicles 31:3
He also appointed the king’s portion of his possessions for the burnt offerings: for the morning and evening burnt offerings, and the burnt offerings for the Sabbaths, for the new moons, and for the set feasts, as it is written in Yahweh’s law.
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Job 36:21
Take heed, don’t regard iniquity; for you have chosen this rather than affliction.
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Psalms 50:11
I know all the birds of the mountains. The wild animals of the field are mine.
Psalms 50:12
If I were hungry, I would not tell you, for the world is mine, and all that is in it.
Psalms 51:17
The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit. O God, you will not despise a broken and contrite heart.
Psalms 101:5
I will silence whoever secretly slanders his neighbor. I won’t tolerate one who is arrogant and conceited.
Hosea 6:10
In the house of Israel I have seen a horrible thing. There is prostitution in Ephraim. Israel is defiled.
Matthew 5:23
“If therefore you are offering your gift at the altar, and there remember that your brother has anything against you,
Matthew 9:13
But you go and learn what this means: ‘I desire mercy, and not sacrifice,’ for I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.”
Matthew 12:7
But if you had known what this means, ‘I desire mercy, and not sacrifice,’ you wouldn’t have condemned the guiltless.
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.”
John 4:24
God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth.”
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Isaiah 1:20
but if you refuse and rebel, you will be devoured with the sword; for Yahweh’s mouth has spoken it.”
Jeremiah 7:5
For if you thoroughly amend your ways and your doings, if you thoroughly execute justice between a man and his neighbor;
Jeremiah 7:6
if you don’t oppress the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow, and don’t shed innocent blood in this place, and don’t walk after other gods to your own hurt,
Jeremiah 7:7
then I will cause you to dwell in this place, in the land that I gave to your fathers, from of old even forever more.
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Isaiah 1:31
The strong will be like tinder, and his work like a spark. They will both burn together, and no one will quench them.”
Matthew 3:10
Even now the ax lies at the root of the trees. Therefore every tree that doesn’t produce good fruit is cut down, and cast into the fire.
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Leviticus 23:24
“Speak to the children of Israel, saying, ‘In the seventh month, on the first day of the month, there shall be a solemn rest for you, a memorial of blowing of trumpets, a holy convocation.
Numbers 10:2
“Make two trumpets of silver. You shall make them of beaten work. You shall use them for the calling of the congregation and for the journeying of the camps.
Psalms 89:15
Blessed are the people who learn to acclaim you. They walk in the light of your presence, Yahweh.
Isaiah 4:5
Yahweh will create over the whole habitation of Mount Zion and over her assemblies, a cloud and smoke by day, and the shining of a flaming fire by night, for over all the glory will be a canopy.
Isaiah 58:1
“Cry aloud! Don’t spare! Lift up your voice like a trumpet! Declare to my people their disobedience, and to the house of Jacob their sins.
Hosea 8:1
“Put the trumpet to your lips! Something like an eagle is over Yahweh’s house, because they have broken my covenant and rebelled against my law.
Joel 2:15
Blow the trumpet in Zion! Sanctify a fast. Call a solemn assembly.
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Isaiah 48:2
for they call themselves citizens of the holy city, and rely on the God of Israel; Yahweh of Armies is his name.
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.
Isaiah 58:9
Then you will call, and Yahweh will answer. You will cry for help, and he will say, ‘Here I am.’ “If you take away from among you the yoke, finger pointing, and speaking wickedly;
Ezekiel 33:31
They come to you as the people come, and they sit before you as my people, and they hear your words, but don’t do them; for with their mouth they show much love, but their heart goes after their gain.
Zechariah 7:6
When you eat and when you drink, don’t you eat for yourselves and drink for yourselves?
1 Corinthians 11:17
But in giving you this command I don’t praise you, because you come together not for the better but for the worse.
Hebrews 10:25
not forsaking our own assembling together, as the custom of some is, but exhorting one another, and so much the more as you see the Day approaching.
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Ezekiel 23:37
For they have committed adultery, and blood is in their hands. They have committed adultery with their idols. They have also caused their sons, whom they bore to me, to pass through the fire to them to be devoured.
Ezekiel 23:38
Moreover this they have done to me: they have defiled my sanctuary in the same day, and have profaned my Sabbaths.
Ezekiel 23:39
For when they had slain their children to their idols, then they came the same day into my sanctuary to profane it; and behold, they have done this in the middle of my house.
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Isaiah 1:4
Ah sinful nation, a people loaded with iniquity, offspring of evildoers, children who deal corruptly! They have forsaken Yahweh. They have despised the Holy One of Israel. They are estranged and backward.
Isaiah 1:6
From the sole of the foot even to the head there is no soundness in it, but wounds, welts, and open sores. They haven’t been closed, bandaged, or soothed with oil.
Jeremiah 7:24
But they didn’t listen or turn their ear, but walked in their own counsels and in the stubbornness of their evil heart, and went backward, and not forward.
Jeremiah 7:27
“You shall speak all these words to them, but they will not listen to you. You shall also call to them, but they will not answer you.
Lamentations 2:7
The Lord has cast off his altar. He has abhorred his sanctuary. He has given the walls of her palaces into the hand of the enemy. They have made a noise in Yahweh’s house, as in the day of a solemn assembly.
Daniel 9:27
He will make a firm covenant with many for one week. In the middle of the week he will cause the sacrifice and the offering to cease. On the wing of abominations will come one who makes desolate; and even to the decreed full end, wrath will be poured out on the desolate.”
Zechariah 11:8
I cut off the three shepherds in one month; for my soul was weary of them, and their soul also loathed me.
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Hosea 2:13
I will visit on her the days of the Baals, to which she burned incense when she decked herself with her earrings and her jewels, and went after her lovers and forgot me,” says Yahweh.
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Haggai 1:1
In the second year of Darius the king, in the sixth month, in the first day of the month, Yahweh’s word came by Haggai the prophet, to Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and to Joshua the son of Jehozadak, the high priest, saying,
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Exodus 30:9
You shall offer no strange incense on it, nor burnt offering, nor meal offering; and you shall pour no drink offering on it.
Isaiah 57:6
Among the smooth stones of the valley is your portion. They, they are your lot. You have even poured a drink offering to them. You have offered an offering. Shall I be appeased for these things?
Hosea 9:4
They won’t pour out wine offerings to Yahweh, neither will they be pleasing to him. Their sacrifices will be to them like the bread of mourners; all who eat of it will be polluted; for their bread will be for their appetite. It will not come into Yahweh’s house.
Malachi 1:13
You say also, ‘Behold, what a weariness it is!’ And you have sniffed at it”, says Yahweh of Armies; “and you have brought that which was taken by violence, the lame, and the sick; thus you bring the offering. Should I accept this at your hand?” says Yahweh.
Malachi 1:14
“But the deceiver is cursed who has in his flock a male, and vows and sacrifices to the Lord a defective thing; for I am a great King,” says Yahweh of Armies, “and my name is awesome among the nations.”
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