Unavailing When Not Accompanied By Piety

1 Samuel 15:22

²² And Samuel said, Hath 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 hearken than the fat of rams.

Psalms 40:6

⁶ Sacrifice and offering thou didst not desire; mine ears hast thou opened: burnt offering and sin offering hast thou not required.

Psalms 50:8

⁸ I will not reprove thee for thy sacrifices or thy burnt offerings, to have been continually before me.

Psalms 50:9

⁹ I will take no bullock out of thy house, nor he goats out of thy folds.

Psalms 50:10

¹⁰ For every beast of the forest is mine, and the cattle upon a thousand hills.

Psalms 50:11

¹¹ I know all the fowls of the mountains: and the wild beasts of the field are mine.

Psalms 50:12

¹² If I were hungry, I would not tell thee: for the world is mine, and the fulness thereof.

Psalms 50:13

¹³ Will I eat the flesh of bulls, or drink the blood of goats?

Psalms 50:14

¹⁴ Offer unto God thanksgiving; and pay thy vows unto the most High:

Psalms 51:16

¹⁶ For thou desirest not sacrifice; else would I give it: thou delightest not in burnt offering.

Psalms 51:17

¹⁷ The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit: a broken and a contrite heart, O God, thou wilt not despise.

Proverbs 21:3

³ To do justice and judgment is more acceptable to the LORD than sacrifice.

Proverbs 21:27

²⁷ The sacrifice of the wicked is abomination: how much more, when he bringeth it with a wicked mind?

Isaiah 1:11

¹¹ To what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices unto me? saith 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.

Isaiah 1:12

¹² When ye come to appear before me, who hath required this at your hand, to tread my courts?

Isaiah 1:13

¹³ Bring no more vain oblations; incense is an abomination unto me; the new moons and sabbaths, the calling of assemblies, I cannot away with; it is iniquity, even the solemn meeting.

Isaiah 1:14

¹⁴ Your new moons and your appointed feasts my soul hateth: they are a trouble unto me; I am weary to bear them.

Isaiah 66:3

³ He that killeth an ox is as if he slew a man; he that sacrificeth a lamb, as if he cut off a dog's neck; he that offereth an oblation, as if he offered swine's blood; he that burneth incense, as if he blessed an idol. Yea, they have chosen their own ways, and their soul delighteth in their abominations.

Isaiah 40:16

¹⁶ And Lebanon is not sufficient to burn, nor the beasts thereof sufficient for a burnt offering.

Jeremiah 6:20

²⁰ To what purpose cometh there to me incense from Sheba, and the sweet cane from a far country? your burnt offerings are not acceptable, nor your sacrifices sweet unto me.

Jeremiah 7:21

²¹ Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Put your burnt offerings unto your sacrifices, and eat flesh.

Jeremiah 7:22

²² For I spake not unto your fathers, nor commanded them in the day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt, concerning burnt offerings or sacrifices:

Jeremiah 7:23

²³ But this thing commanded I them, saying, Obey my voice, and I will be your God, and ye shall be my people: and walk ye in all the ways that I have commanded you, that it may be well unto you.

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.

Hosea 6:6

⁶ For I desired mercy, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings.

Hosea 8:13

¹³ They sacrifice flesh for the sacrifices of mine offerings, and eat it; but the LORD accepteth them not; now will he remember their iniquity, and visit their sins: they shall return to Egypt.

Amos 5:21

²¹ I hate, I despise your feast days, and I will not smell in your solemn assemblies.

Amos 5:22

²² Though ye offer me burnt offerings and your meat offerings, I will not accept them: neither will I regard the peace offerings of your fat beasts.

Amos 5:23

²³ Take thou away from me the noise of thy songs; for I will not hear the melody of thy viols.

Amos 5:24

²⁴ But let judgment run down as waters, and righteousness as a mighty stream.

Micah 6:6

⁶ Wherewith 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?

Micah 6:7

⁷ Will the LORD be pleased with thousands of rams, or with ten thousands of rivers of oil? shall I give my firstborn for my transgression, the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul?

Micah 6:8

⁸ He hath shewed thee, O man, what is good; and what doth the LORD require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God?

Mark 12:33

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 neighbour as himself, is more than all whole burnt offerings and sacrifices.

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