When the LORD smelled the pleasing aroma, He said in His heart, “Never again will I curse the ground because of man, even though every inclination of his heart is evil from his youth. And never again will I destroy all living creatures as I have done.
For we are to God the sweet aroma of Christ among those who are being saved and those who are perishing.
and walk in love, just as Christ loved us and gave Himself up for us as a fragrant sacrificial offering to God.
Then the LORD saw that the wickedness of man was great upon the earth, and that every inclination of the thoughts of his
“For to Me this is like the days of Noah, when I swore that the waters of Noah would never again cover the earth. So I h
The heart is deceitful above all things and beyond cure. Who can understand it?
I have all I need and more, now that I have received your gifts from Epaphroditus. They are a fragrant offering, an acce
for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,
The entrails and legs must be washed with water, and the priest shall present all of it and burn it on the altar; it is
When I bring you from the peoples and gather you from the lands to which you have been scattered, I will accept you as a
Surely there is no righteous man on earth who does good and never sins.
The entrails and legs must be washed with water, and the priest shall burn all of it on the altar as a burnt offering, a
And to Adam He said: “Because you have listened to the voice of your wife and have eaten from the tree of which I comman
through which the world of that time perished in the flood.
For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murder, adultery, sexual immorality, theft, false testimony, and slander.
Surely I was brought forth in iniquity; I was sinful when my mother conceived me.
But each one is tempted when by his own evil desires he is lured away and enticed.
The wicked are estranged from the womb; the liars go astray from birth.
Flesh is born of flesh, but spirit is born of the Spirit.
because the mind of the flesh is hostile to God: It does not submit to God’s law, nor can it do so.
And behold, I will bring floodwaters upon the earth to destroy every creature under the heavens that has the breath of l
And I establish My covenant with you: Never again will all life be cut off by the waters of a flood; never again will th
Then take them from their hands and burn them on the altar atop the burnt offering as a pleasing aroma before the LORD;
And you were dead in your trespasses and sins,
He shall tear it open by its wings, without dividing the bird completely. And the priest is to burn it on the altar atop
For although they knew God, they neither glorified Him as God nor gave thanks to Him, but they became futile in their th
“I hate, I despise your feasts! I cannot stand the stench of your solemn assemblies.
Who can bring out clean from unclean? No one!
We know that we are of God, and that the whole world is under the power of the evil one.
Who can say, “I have kept my heart pure; I am cleansed from my sin”?
Then burn the entire ram on the altar; it is a burnt offering to the LORD, a pleasing aroma, a food offering to the LORD
But they will reply, ‘It is hopeless. We will follow our own plans, and each of us will act according to the stubbornnes
What causes conflicts and quarrels among you? Don’t they come from the passions at war within you?
You have never heard; you have never understood; for a long time your ears have not been open. For I knew how deceitful
We all like sheep have gone astray, each one has turned to his own way; and the LORD has laid upon Him the iniquity of u
So take your stand with your spells and with your many sorceries, with which you have wearied yourself from your youth.
Behold, it is written before Me: I will not keep silent, but I will repay; I will pay it back into their laps,
This is what they are to you—those with whom you have labored and traded from youth—each one strays in his own direction
I have listened and heard; they do not speak what is right. No one repents of his wickedness, asking, ‘What have I done?
I will reduce your cities to rubble and lay waste your sanctuaries, and I will refuse to smell the pleasing aroma of you
When you till the ground, it will no longer yield its produce to you. You will be a fugitive and a wanderer on the earth
And he named him Noah, saying, “May this one comfort us in the labor and toil of our hands caused by the ground that the
How delightful is your love, my sister, my bride! Your love is much better than wine, and the fragrance of your perfume
What is man, that he should be pure, or one born of woman, that he should be righteous?