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.
My beloved brothers, understand this: Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak, and slow to anger,
Therefore, since we are receiving an unshakable kingdom, let us be filled with gratitude, and so worship God acceptably
The sacrifice of the wicked is detestable to the LORD, but the prayer of the upright is His delight.
When you come to appear before Me, who has required this of you—this trampling of My courts?
Rid yourselves, therefore, of all malice, deceit, hypocrisy, envy, and slander.
The sacrifice of the wicked is detestable—how much more so when brought with ill intent!
The Commander of the LORD’s army replied, “Take off your sandals, for the place where you are standing is holy.” And Jos
“Do not come any closer,” God said. “Take off your sandals, for the place where you are standing is holy ground.”
Whoever slaughters an ox is like one who slays a man; whoever sacrifices a lamb is like one who breaks a dog’s neck; who
I do not rebuke you for your sacrifices, and your burnt offerings are ever before Me.
When Jacob woke up, he said, “Surely the LORD is in this place, and I was unaware of it.”
Don’t you have your own homes in which to eat and drink? Or do you despise the church of God and humiliate those who hav
In the council of the holy ones, God is greatly feared, and awesome above all who surround Him.
“Oh, that one of you would shut the temple doors, so that you would no longer kindle useless fires on My altar! I take n
So I sent for you immediately, and you were kind enough to come. Now then, we are all here in the presence of God to lis
If we deliberately go on sinning after we have received the knowledge of the truth, no further sacrifice for sins remain
I thought, ‘Now the Philistines will descend upon me at Gilgal, and I have not sought the favor of the LORD.’ So I felt
Now the Bereans were more noble-minded than the Thessalonians, for they received the message with great eagerness and ex
Then Moses said to Aaron, “This is what the LORD meant when He said: ‘To those who come near Me I will show My holiness,
So in the course of time, Cain brought some of the fruit of the soil as an offering to the LORD,
But when Uzziah became powerful, his arrogance led to his own destruction. He was unfaithful to the LORD his God, for he
The troops took sheep and cattle from the plunder, the best of the things devoted to destruction, in order to sacrifice
For I desire mercy, not sacrifice, and the knowledge of God rather than burnt offerings.
This is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: Add your burnt offerings to your other sacrifices and eat the m