Bible Dictionary: Offerings: Useless when not Accompanied by Genuine Piety

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1 Samuel 15:22
And Samuel said, Has the LORD as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices, as in obeying the voice of the LORD? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to listen than the fat of rams.
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Psalm 40:6
Sacrifice and offering you did not desire; my ears have you opened: burnt offering and sin offering have you not required.
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Psalm 50:8-14
I will not reprove you for your sacrifices or your burnt offerings, to have been continually before me.
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Psalm 51:16,17
For you desire not sacrifice; else would I give it: you delight not in burnt offering.
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Proverbs 21:3,27
To do justice and judgment is more acceptable to the LORD than sacrifice.
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Isaiah 1:11-14
To what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices to me? said the LORD: I am full of the burnt offerings of rams, and the fat of fed beasts; and I delight not in the blood of bullocks, or of lambs, or of he goats.
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Isaiah 40:16
And Lebanon is not sufficient to burn, nor the beasts thereof sufficient for a burnt offering.
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Isaiah 66:3
He that kills an ox is as if he slew a man; he that sacrifices a lamb, as if he cut off a dog's neck; he that offers an oblation, as if he offered swine's blood; he that burns incense, as if he blessed an idol. Yes, they have chosen their own ways, and their soul delights in their abominations.
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Jeremiah 6:20
To what purpose comes there to me incense from Sheba, and the sweet cane from a far country? your burnt offerings are not acceptable, nor your sacrifices sweet to me.
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Jeremiah 7:21-23
Thus said the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Put your burnt offerings to your sacrifices, and eat flesh.
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Jeremiah 14:12
When they fast, I will not hear their cry; and when they offer burnt offering and an oblation, I will not accept them: but I will consume them by the sword, and by the famine, and by the pestilence.
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Hosea 6:6
For I desired mercy, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings.
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Hosea 8:13
They sacrifice flesh for the sacrifices of my offerings, and eat it; but the LORD accepts them not; now will he remember their iniquity, and visit their sins: they shall return to Egypt.
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Amos 5:21-24
I hate, I despise your feast days, and I will not smell in your solemn assemblies.
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Micah 6:6-8
With which shall I come before the LORD, and bow myself before the high God? shall I come before him with burnt offerings, with calves of a year old?
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Mark 12:33
And to love him with all the heart, and with all the understanding, and with all the soul, and with all the strength, and to love his neighbor as himself, is more than all whole burnt offerings and sacrifices.
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Library

Modern Revivals.
... the temple of the Holy Spirit will not be enslaved ... yearly expend an immense sum upon
useless and pernicious ... God is robbed in tithes and offerings, while they ...
/.../white/the great controversy between christ and satan /27 modern revivals.htm

Modern Revivals
... the temple of the Holy Spirit will not be enslaved ... yearly expend an immense sum upon
useless and pernicious ... God is robbed in tithes and offerings, while they ...
/.../white/the great controversy/chapter 27 modern revivals.htm

Of Prayer --A Perpetual Exercise of Faith. The Daily Benefits ...
... 3. Objection, that prayer seems useless, because God ... being firmly persuaded that
though not disencumbered of ... ratified: "Remember all thy offerings," says David ...
/.../the institutes of the christian religion/chapter 20 of prayera perpetual.htm

The General Conference of 1840
... means which, under God, have been accompanied with such ... in extraordinary acts of
devotion and offerings to the ... Methodism, indeed, might not so much as exist in ...
/.../chapter 15 the general conference.htm

The Transformation of Rome from a Pagan into a Christian City.
... This practice"save the expiatory offerings"was adopted by the ... the city of the famine
proved useless, and the ... The grain was not intended to be sold, but to ...
/.../lanciani/pagan and christian rome/chapter i the transformation of.htm

Period I: the Imperial State Church of the Undivided Empire, or ...
... I; The Council of Nicaea: The Genuine Remains; HR ... that the decision at that council
was not acceptable in ... with the command of your devout piety, sovereign lord ...
/.../ayer/a source book for ancient church history/period i the imperial state.htm

The First Epistle of St. Peter
... Stone, which had been flung aside as useless by men ... the offering of those spiritual
sacrifices (thank-offerings, of course ... towards God (i.17, ii.17), not (as in ...
/.../moffat/the general epistles james peter and judas/the first epistle of st.htm

part i
... 'God is not a man ... here before me, knowing all my thoughts and feelings; every inward
slothfulness, stubbornness, or other passion is always accompanied by a ...
//christianbookshelf.org/calvin/my life in christ/part i.htm

Subtopics

Offerings

Offerings: All Animal Sacrifices Must be Eight Days Old or More

Offerings: Animal Sacrifices: A Type of Christ

Offerings: Antiquity of

Offerings: Burnt

Offerings: Burnt: Accompanied by Other offerings

Offerings: Burnt: Its Purpose Was to Make an Atonement for Sin

Offerings: Burnt: Music With

Offerings: Burnt: Offered Daily, Morning and Evening

Offerings: Burnt: Ordinances Concerning

Offerings: Burnt: Skins of, Belonged to Priests