8 Bible Verses about Delighting, Wrong Kinds Of

He does not delight in the strength of the horse; he takes no pleasure in the legs of the man.

The one who slaughters bull strikes a man; the one who slaughters lamb for sacrifice breaks the neck [of] a dog. The one who offers an offering, [the] blood of swine; the one who offers frankincense blesses an idol. Indeed, they themselves have chosen their ways, and their soul delights in their abhorrence.

For you do not delight [in] sacrifice or I would give [it]. [With] a burnt offering you are not pleased.

What [is the] abundance of your sacrifices to me? says Yahweh. I have had enough [of] burnt offerings of rams and [the] fat [of] fattened animals and I do not delight in [the] blood of bulls and ram-lambs and goats.

Let no one condemn you, taking pleasure in humility and the worship of angels, going into detail [about] [the things] which he has seen, inflated without cause by his fleshly mind,

in order that all may be condemned who did not believe the truth, but delighted in unrighteousness.

They only plan to thrust [him] down from his high position; they are pleased [with] deception. With their mouths they bless, but {inwardly} they curse. Selah

[it] does not rejoice at unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth,