Quotes about Sacrifice

The sacrifice of the wicked is detestable—how much more so when brought with ill intent!

Guard your steps when you go to the house of God. Draw near to listen rather than to offer the sacrifice of fools, who do not know that they do wrong.

It is the same for all: There is a common fate for the righteous and the wicked, for the good and the bad, for the clean and the unclean, for the one who sacrifices and the one who does not. As it is for the good, so it is for the sinner; as it is for the one who makes a vow, so it is for the one who refuses to take a vow.

Let your garments always be white, and never spare the oil for your head.

When you come to appear before Me, who has required this of you—this trampling of My courts?

I hate your New Moons and your appointed feasts. They have become a burden to Me; I am weary of bearing them.

The sword of the LORD is bathed in blood. It drips with fat—with the blood of lambs and goats, with the fat of the kidneys of rams. For the LORD has a sacrifice in Bozrah, a great slaughter in the land of Edom.

And the wild oxen will fall with them, the young bulls with the strong ones. Their land will be drenched with blood, and their soil will be soaked with fat.

Lebanon is not sufficient for fuel, nor its animals enough for a burnt offering.

Because you are precious and honored in My sight, and because I love you, I will give men in exchange for you and nations in place of your life.

You have not brought Me sheep for burnt offerings, nor honored Me with your sacrifices. I have not burdened you with offerings, nor wearied you with frankincense.

You have not bought Me sweet cane with your silver, nor satisfied Me with the fat of your sacrifices. But you have burdened Me with your sins; you have wearied Me with your iniquities.