32 Bible Verses about Acceptance, Of Worship

For your acceptance a blameless male among the cattle, among the sheep, and among the goats. And every one which in it is a blemish ye shall not bring it: for it shall not be for acceptance for you. And when a man shall bring a sacrifice of peace to Jehovah, to separate a vow or a willing gift in cattle or in sheep, it shall be blameless for acceptance: not any blemish shall be in it

And ye yourselves are built, as living stones, a spiritual house, a holy priesthood, to bring up spiritual sacrifice; acceptable to God by Jesus Christ.

If a burnt-offering, his sacrifice from the oxen, a blameless male: they shall bring it near to the door of the tent of appointment; he shall bring it near according to his will before Jehovah. And he placed his hand upon the head of the burnt-offering, and it was accepted for him to expiate for him.

And when ye shall sacrifice a sacrifice of peace to Jehovah, ye shall sacrifice at your will. In the day of your sacrifice it shall be eaten, and on the morrow: and that remaining till the third day shall be burnt in fire. And if eating, it shall be eaten in the third day, it is abomination; it shall not be accepted.

When a calf or lamb, or goat, shall be brought forth, it shall be seven days under its mother; and from the eighth day and beyond, it shall be accepted for an offering, a sacrifice to Jehovah. And an ox or a sheep, it and its son, thou shalt not slaughter in one day. And when ye shall sacrifice a sacrifice of praise to Jehovah, ye shall sacrifice for your acceptance.

And he sat melting and cleansing silver: and he cleansed the sons of Levi, and he purified them as gold and as silver, and they were to Jehovah bringing near the sacrifice in justice. And the sacrifice of Judah and Jerusalem was pleasant to Jehovah, as the days of old and as the former years.

But the hour comes, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and truth; for also the Father seeks such worshipping him.

I Beseech you therefore, brethren, by the compassions of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, pleasing to God, your reasonable service.

And I have all, and abound: I have been filled, having received from Epaphroditus the things from you, a smell of sweet odor, a sacrifice acceptable, pleasing to God.

Wherefore we receiving a kingdom unmoved; we should have grace by which we might serve God acceptably, with reverence and circumspection:

And the doing good and mutual participation forget not; for with such sacrifices God is well pleased.

Take from them, and they were to serve the service of the tent of appointment; and they gave them to the Levites, to a man according to his service.

And Moses will take, and Eleazar the priest, all the gold from them, all the vessels of work. And all the gold of the offering which they lifted up to Jehovah, will be sixteen thousand seven hundred and fifty shekels, from the captains of thousands and from the captains of hundreds. The men of war plundered each for himself.read more.
And Moses will take, and Eleazar the priest, the gold from the captains of thousands and of hundreds, and they will bring it to the tent of appointment, a remembrance for the sons of Israel before Jehovah.

Thus said Jehovah to this people, Thus they loved to wander, they restrained not their feet, and Jehovah accepted them not; now will he remember their iniquity and he will review their sin. And Jehovah will say to me, Thou shalt not pray for this people for good. When they shall fast I hear not their outcry; and when they shall bring up a burnt-offering and gift, I accept them not; for with the sword and by famine and by death I consume them.

And if eating, he shall eat from the flesh of the sacrifice of his peace in the third day, it shall not be accepted; he bringing it near, it shall not be imputed to him: it shall be an abomination, and the soul eating from it shall bear its iniquity.

And from the hand of the son of the stranger ye shall not bring near the bread of your God from all these, because their destruction is in them; a blemish in them; they shall not be accepted for you.

And if ye shall bring near the blind for a sacrifice, is it not evil? and if ye shall bring near the lame and the sick, is it not evil? bring A near now to thy governor; will he delight in thee, or lift up thy face? said Jehovah of armies. And now, beseech now, the face of God, and he will be gracious to us: this was from your hand: will he lift up from you the faces? says Jehovah of armies. Who also among you and he will shut the doors? and ye shall not make light mine altar gratuitously. Not to me delight in you, said Jehovah of armies, and I will not delight in the gift of your hand.

And this ye will do the second time, covering with tears the altar of Jehovah, with weepings and shrieks, from not any more looking to the gift, and to take delight from your hand.

To do justice and judgment was chosen by Jehovah above gold.

Religion pure and unpolluted before God and the Father is this, To take a view of the orphans and widows in their pressure, to keep himself free from stain from the world.

And Samuel will say, Was it pleasing to Jehovah in burnt-offerings and sacrifices as to hear to the voice of Jehovah? Behold, to hear, above a good sacrifice, and to hearken, above the fat of rams.

Behold, thou didst delight in truth in the reins, and in bidden things thou wilt cause me to know wisdom. Thou wilt purify me with hyssop, and I shall be clean: thou wilt wash me and I shall be white above snow.

Hear, thou earth: Behold me bringing evil to this people, the fruit of their purposes, for to my word they hearkened not, and my law they will reject it. Wherefore this to me shall frankincense come from Sheba, and the good cane from a land from far off? your burnt-offerings are not for acceptance, and your sacrifices were not sweet to me.

I hated, I rejected your festivals, and I will not smell in your assemblies. For if ye shall bring up to me burnt-offerirgs, and your gifts, I will not delight; and I will not look upon the peace-offerings of your fatlings. Remove from me the noise of thy songs; for I will not hear the music of thy lyres.read more.
Judgment shall roll as the waters, and justice as a torrent of strength.

Therefore come out from the midst of them, and be separated, says the Lord, and touch not the unclean; and I will receive you. And I will be to you for a Father, and ye shall be to me for sons and daughters, says the Lord Almighty.

Turn aside, turn aside, come ye forth from thence; ye shall not touch the unclean thing; come forth from the midst of her; be separated ye lifting up the vessels of Jehovah.

Jehovah heard my supplication; Jehovah will receive my prayer

By him therefore we should always bring up the sacrifice of praise to God, that is, the fruit of the lips assenting to his name.

He shall pray to God and he shall receive him into favor: and he shall see his face with rejoicing, and he will turn back to man his justice.

And now take to you seven bullocks and seven rams, and go to my servant Job, and bring up a burnt-offering for yourselves; and my servant Job shall pray for you: for his face I will accept, so as not to do with you for folly, for ye spake not to me the right as my servant Job. And Eliphaz the Temanite, and Bildad the Shuhite, Zophar the Naamathite, will go, and they will do according as God Jehovah spake: and Jehovah will accept the face of Job.

Accept now the voluntaries of my month, O Jehovah, and teach me thy judgments.

And the publican, standing afar off, would not either lift up the eyes to heaven, but struck upon his breast, saying, God propitiate for me the sinful. I say to you, this one went down to his house justified rather than that one: for every one lifting up himself shall be humbled; and he humbling himself shall be lifted up.