Malachi 1:13
You also say: 'Look, what a nuisance!' And you turn up your nose at it," says the LORD of Hosts. "You bring as an offering animals that are stolen, lame, or sick! Should I accept this from your hands?" asks the LORD.
Cross References
Leviticus 6:4
once he has sinned and becomes guilty, he must return what he has stolen or taken by extortion, or the deposit entrusted to him, or the lost property he found,

2 Samuel 24:24
"No," replied the king, "I insist on paying a price, for I will not offer to the LORD my God burnt offerings that cost me nothing." So David bought the threshing floor and the oxen for fifty shekels of silver.

Isaiah 43:22
But you have not called on Me, O Jacob, because you have grown weary of Me, O Israel.

Isaiah 61:8
For I, the LORD, love justice; I hate robbery and iniquity; in My faithfulness I will give them their recompense and make an everlasting covenant with them.

Hosea 13:9
It is your destruction, O Israel, because you are against Me, your helper.

Malachi 1:7
"By presenting defiled food on My altar." You ask, "How have we defiled You?" "By saying that the table of the LORD is contemptible."

Malachi 1:8
"When you offer blind animals for sacrifice, is it not wrong? And when you present the lame and sick ones, is it not wrong? Why not offer them to your governor! Would he be pleased with you or show you favor?" asks the LORD of Hosts.

Malachi 1:10
"Oh, that one of you would shut the temple doors, so that you would no longer kindle useless fires on My altar! I take no pleasure in you," says the LORD of Hosts, "and I will accept no offering from your hands."

Malachi 2:12
As for the man who does this, may the LORD cut off from the tents of Jacob everyone who is awake and aware--even if he brings an offering to the LORD of Hosts.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Behold.

1 Samuel 2:29
Why, then, do you kick at My sacrifice and offering that I have prescribed for My dwelling place? You have honored your sons more than Me by fattening yourselves with the best of all the offerings of My people Israel.'

Isaiah 43:22
But you have not called on Me, O Jacob, because you have grown weary of Me, O Israel.

Amos 8:5
asking, "When will the New Moon be over that we may sell grain? When will the Sabbath end, that we may market wheat? Let us reduce the ephah and increase the shekel; let us cheat with dishonest scales.

Micah 6:3
My people, what have I done to you? Testify against Me how I have wearied you!

Mark 14:4, 5, 37, 38
But some of those present expressed their indignation to one another: "Why this waste of perfume? . . .

and ye have snuffed at it.

Malachi 1:7, 8
"By presenting defiled food on My altar." You ask, "How have we defiled You?" "By saying that the table of the LORD is contemptible." . . .

Leviticus 22:8, 19-23
He must not eat anything found dead or torn by wild animals, which would make him unclean. I am the LORD. . . .

Deuteronomy 15:21
But if an animal has a defect, is lame or blind, or has any serious flaw, you must not sacrifice it to the LORD your God.

Ezekiel 4:14
"Ah, Lord GOD, " I said, "I have never defiled myself. From my youth until now I have not eaten anything found dead or mauled by wild beasts. No unclean meat has ever entered my mouth."

Ezekiel 44:31
The priests may not eat any bird or animal found dead or torn by wild beasts.

should I accept.

Malachi 2:13
And this is another thing you do: You cover the altar of the LORD with tears, with weeping and groaning, because He no longer regards your offerings or receives them gladly from your hands.

Isaiah 1:12
When you come to appear before Me, who has required this of you--this trampling of My courts?

Isaiah 57:6
Among the smooth stones of the valley is your portion; indeed, they are your lot. Even to them you have poured out a drink offering, you have offered a grain offering. Should I relent because of these?

Jeremiah 7:9-11, 21-24
Will you steal and murder, commit adultery and perjury, burn incense to Baal, and follow other gods that you have not known, . . .

Amos 5:21-23
I hate, I despise your feasts! I cannot stand the stench of your solemn assemblies. . . .

Zechariah 7:5, 6
"Ask all the people of the land and the priests, 'When you fasted and mourned in the fifth and seventh months for these seventy years, was it really for Me that you fasted? . . .

Matthew 6:1, 2, 5, 16
Be careful not to perform your righteous acts before men to be seen by them. If you do, you will have no reward from your Father in heaven. . . .

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