Isaiah 1:15
When you spread out your hands, I will hide my eyes from you. Yes, when you make many prayers, I will not hear. Your hands are full of blood.
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Isaiah 1:15
When you spread out your hands, I will hide my eyes from you. Yes, when you make many prayers, I will not hear. Your hands are full of blood.
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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,
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Genesis 6:3
Yahweh said, “My Spirit will not strive with man forever, because he also is flesh; so his days will be one hundred twenty years.”
Job 9:30
If I wash myself with snow, and cleanse my hands with lye,
Psalms 18:20
Yahweh has rewarded me according to my righteousness. According to the cleanness of my hands, he has recompensed me.
1 Peter 3:21
This is a symbol of baptism, which now saves you—not the putting away of the filth of the flesh, but the answer of a good conscience toward God—through the resurrection of Jesus Christ,
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Genesis 42:22
Reuben answered them, saying, “Didn’t I tell you, saying, ‘Don’t sin against the child,’ and you wouldn’t listen? Therefore also, behold, his blood is required.”
Numbers 35:33
“ ‘So you shall not pollute the land where you live; for blood pollutes the land. No atonement can be made for the land for the blood that is shed in it, but by the blood of him who shed it.
Job 16:18
“Earth, don’t cover my blood. Let my cry have no place to rest.
Psalms 106:38
They shed innocent blood, even the blood of their sons and of their daughters, whom they sacrificed to the idols of Canaan. The land was polluted with blood.
Isaiah 26:21
For, behold, Yahweh comes out of his place to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity. The earth also will disclose her blood, and will no longer cover her slain.
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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.”
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.
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Deuteronomy 31:17
Then my anger shall be kindled against them in that day, and I will forsake them, and I will hide my face from them, and they shall be devoured, and many evils and troubles shall come on them; so that they will say in that day, ‘Haven’t these evils come on us because our God is not among us?’
Deuteronomy 32:20
He said, “I will hide my face from them. I will see what their end will be; for they are a very perverse generation, children in whom is no faithfulness.
Psalms 10:1
Why do you stand far off, Yahweh? Why do you hide yourself in times of trouble?
Psalms 30:7
You, Yahweh, when you favored me, made my mountain stand strong; but when you hid your face, I was troubled.
Isaiah 8:17
I will wait for Yahweh, who hides his face from the house of Jacob, and I will look for him.
Jeremiah 18:17
I will scatter them as with an east wind before the enemy. I will show them the back, and not the face, in the day of their calamity.
Jeremiah 33:5
‘While men come to fight with the Chaldeans, and to fill them with the dead bodies of men, whom I have killed in my anger and in my wrath, and for all whose wickedness I have hidden my face from this city,
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1 Samuel 8:18
You will cry out in that day because of your king whom you will have chosen for yourselves; and Yahweh will not answer you in that day.”
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1 Samuel 20:24
So David hid himself in the field. When the new moon had come, the king sat himself down to eat food.
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Job 4:7
“Remember, now, whoever perished, being innocent? Or where were the upright cut off?
Job 8:6
If you were pure and upright, surely now he would awaken for you, and make the habitation of your righteousness prosperous.
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Psalms 40:6
Sacrifice and offering you didn’t desire. You have opened my ears. You have not required burnt offering and sin offering.
Psalms 50:10
For every animal of the forest is mine, and the livestock on a thousand hills.
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.
Hosea 6:10
In the house of Israel I have seen a horrible thing. There is prostitution in Ephraim. Israel is defiled.
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.”
Hebrews 10:5
Therefore when he comes into the world, he says, “You didn’t desire sacrifice and offering, but you prepared a body for me.
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Ecclesiastes 5:1
Guard your steps when you go to God’s house; for to draw near to listen is better than to give the sacrifice of fools, for they don’t know that they do evil.
Ecclesiastes 5:2
Don’t be rash with your mouth, and don’t let your heart be hasty to utter anything before God; for God is in heaven, and you on earth. Therefore let your words be few.
Ecclesiastes 5:3
For as a dream comes with a multitude of cares, so a fool’s speech with a multitude of words.
Matthew 20:22
But Jesus answered, “You don’t know what you are asking. Are you able to drink the cup that I am about to drink, and be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with?” They said to him, “We are able.”
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Psalms 141:2
Let my prayer be set before you like incense; the lifting up of my hands like the evening sacrifice.
Isaiah 58:11
and Yahweh will guide you continually, satisfy your soul in dry places, and make your bones strong. You will be like a watered garden, and like a spring of water whose waters don’t fail.
Acts 10:4
He, fastening his eyes on him and being frightened, said, “What is it, Lord?” He said to him, “Your prayers and your gifts to the needy have gone up for a memorial before God.
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2 Kings 21:16
Moreover Manasseh shed innocent blood very much, until he had filled Jerusalem from one end to another; in addition to his sin with which he made Judah to sin, in doing that which was evil in Yahweh’s sight.
Isaiah 3:15
What do you mean that you crush my people, and grind the face of the poor?” says the Lord, Yahweh of Armies.
Isaiah 59:4
No one sues in righteousness, and no one pleads in truth. They trust in vanity and speak lies. They conceive mischief and give birth to iniquity.
Isaiah 59:5
They hatch adders’ eggs and weave the spider’s web. He who eats of their eggs dies; and that which is crushed breaks out into a viper.
Isaiah 59:6
Their webs won’t become garments. They won’t cover themselves with their works. Their works are works of iniquity, and acts of violence are in their hands.
Isaiah 59:7
Their feet run to evil, and they hurry to shed innocent blood. Their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity. Desolation and destruction are in their paths.
Jeremiah 2:30
“I have struck your children in vain. They received no correction. Your own sword has devoured your prophets, like a destroying lion.
Ezekiel 22:2
“You, son of man, will you judge? Will you judge the bloody city? Then cause her to know all her abominations.
Ezekiel 22:4
You have become guilty in your blood that you have shed, and are defiled in your idols which you have made! You have caused your days to draw near, and have come to the end of your years. Therefore I have made you a reproach to the nations, and a mocking to all the countries.
Ezekiel 22:27
Her princes within it are like wolves ravening the prey, to shed blood and to destroy souls, that they may get dishonest gain.
Micah 3:1
I said, “Please listen, you heads of Jacob, and rulers of the house of Israel: Isn’t it for you to know justice?
Micah 3:3
who also eat the flesh of my people, and peel their skin from off them, and break their bones, and chop them in pieces, as for the pot, and as meat within the cauldron.
Micah 7:2
The godly man has perished out of the earth, and there is no one upright among men. They all lie in wait for blood; every man hunts his brother with a net.
Zephaniah 3:3
Her princes within her are roaring lions. Her judges are evening wolves. They leave nothing until the next day.
Romans 3:15
“Their feet are swift to shed blood.
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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 7:7
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 29:1
Woe to Ariel! Ariel, the city where David encamped! Add year to year; let the feasts come around;
Ezekiel 20:39
“ ‘As for you, house of Israel, the Lord Yahweh says: “Go, everyone serve his idols, and hereafter also, if you will not listen to me; but you shall no more profane my holy name with your gifts and with your idols.
Amos 4:4
“Go to Bethel, and sin; to Gilgal, and sin more. Bring your sacrifices every morning, your tithes every three days,
Amos 4:5
offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving of that which is leavened, and proclaim free will offerings and brag about them; for this pleases you, you children of Israel,” says the Lord Yahweh.
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Proverbs 1:29
because they hated knowledge, and didn’t choose the fear of Yahweh.
Isaiah 43:23
You have not brought me any of your sheep for burnt offerings, neither have you honored me with your sacrifices. I have not burdened you with offerings, nor wearied you with frankincense.
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.
Zechariah 7:5
“Speak to all the people of the land and to the priests, saying, ‘When you fasted and mourned in the fifth and in the seventh month for these seventy years, did you at all fast to me, really to me?
Zechariah 7:12
Yes, they made their hearts as hard as flint, lest they might hear the law and the words which Yahweh of Armies had sent by his Spirit by the former prophets. Therefore great wrath came from Yahweh of Armies.
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 2:13
“This again you do: you cover Yahweh’s altar with tears, with weeping, and with sighing, because he doesn’t regard the offering any more, neither receives it with good will at your hand.
Matthew 5:23
“If therefore you are offering your gift at the altar, and there remember that your brother has anything against you,
John 3:21
But he who does the truth comes to the light, that his works may be revealed, that they have been done in God.”
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2 Samuel 22:42
They looked, but there was no one to save; even to Yahweh, but he didn’t answer them.
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.”
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 58:1
“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.
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.
Matthew 7:23
Then I will tell them, ‘I never knew you. Depart from me, you who work iniquity.’
Luke 20:47
who devour widows’ houses, and for a pretense make long prayers. These will receive greater condemnation.”
Revelation 3:15
“I know your works, that you are neither cold nor hot. I wish you were cold or hot.
Revelation 3:16
So, because you are lukewarm, and neither hot nor cold, I will vomit you out of my mouth.
Revelation 3:17
Because you say, ‘I am rich, and have gotten riches, and have need of nothing,’ and don’t know that you are the wretched one, miserable, poor, blind, and naked;
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Luke 13:24
“Strive to enter in by the narrow door, for many, I tell you, will seek to enter in and will not be able.
John 7:34
You will seek me and won’t find me. You can’t come where I am.”
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1 Samuel 14:37
Saul asked counsel of God: “Shall I go down after the Philistines? Will you deliver them into the hand of Israel?” But he didn’t answer him that day.
2 Kings 3:13
Elisha said to the king of Israel, “What have I to do with you? Go to the prophets of your father, and to the prophets of your mother.” The king of Israel said to him, “No, for Yahweh has called these three kings together to deliver them into the hand of Moab.”
Psalms 44:21
won’t God search this out? For he knows the secrets of the heart.
Psalms 50:15
Call on me in the day of trouble. I will deliver you, and you will honor me.”
Psalms 145:18
Yahweh is near to all those who call on him, to all who call on him in truth.
Jeremiah 2:28
“But where are your gods that you have made for yourselves? Let them arise, if they can save you in the time of your trouble, for you have as many gods as you have towns, O Judah.
Jeremiah 29:12
You shall call on me, and you shall go and pray to me, and I will listen to you.
Ezekiel 14:4
Therefore speak to them and tell them, ‘The Lord Yahweh says: “Every man of the house of Israel who takes his idols into his heart and puts the stumbling block of his iniquity before his face then comes to the prophet, I Yahweh will answer him there according to the multitude of his idols,
Matthew 6:6
But you, when you pray, enter into your inner room, and having shut your door, pray to your Father who is in secret; and your Father who sees in secret will reward you openly.
Luke 18:12
I fast twice a week. I give tithes of all that I get.’
Romans 10:2
For I testify about them that they have a zeal for God, but not according to knowledge.
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