Ecclesiastes 5:1
Guard your step when you go to the house of God. It is better to go there and listen than to bring the sacrifices fools bring. Fools are not aware that they do evil.
Exodus 3:5
God said: Do not come any closer. Take off your sandals, because you are standing on holy ground.
Proverbs 15:8
The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination to Jehovah! The prayer of the upright is his delight.
Psalm 89:7
He is a God greatly reverenced in the council of the holy ones. He is awesome above all those who are around Him?
Proverbs 21:27
The sacrifice of the wicked is abomination! How much more, when he brings it with a wicked mind?
Isaiah 1:12-20
Who requires you to trample on my courtyards when you appear in my presence?
Isaiah 66:3
Whoever kills a bull is like someone who kills a person. Whoever sacrifices a lamb is like someone who breaks a dog's neck. Whoever offers a grain sacrifice is like someone who offers pig's blood. Whoever burns incense is like someone who worships an idol. People have certainly chosen their own ways, and they delight in detestable things.
Jeremiah 7:21-23
Thus says Jehovah of Hosts, the God of Israel: Add your burnt offerings to your sacrifices and eat flesh.
Hosea 6:6-7
I desire loving-kindness (mercy), not sacrifice, and knowledge of God rather than burnt offerings.
Acts 10:33
Immediately I sent for you. You have done well for you have come. We are all present before God, to hear all things that are commanded to you from God.
1 Corinthians 11:22
Do you not have houses in which to eat and drink? Or do you despise the congregation of God, and shame them that have nothing? What shall I say to you? Shall I praise you in this? I will not praise you!
Hebrews 10:26
If we continue to (practice) (deliberately persist in) sin willfully after we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remains no more sacrifice for sins.
Hebrews 12:28-29
Let us be thankful, because we will receive a kingdom that cannot be shaken. Let us be grateful and worship (serve) (intensely adore) God in a way that will please him, with reverence and awe.
James 1:19
You know this, my beloved brothers. But let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, and slow to anger.
1 Peter 2:1-2
Put away all badness and all deception, hypocrisy, envy, and all evil talk.
Genesis 4:3-5
As time went by, Cain brought some of the fruits of the soil as an offering to Jehovah.
Genesis 28:16-17
Jacob woke up from his sleep and said: Truly, Jehovah is in this place, and I did not know it!
Leviticus 10:3
Moses said to Aaron: This is what Jehovah was speaking about when he said: 'All who serve me must respect my holiness. I will reveal my glory to my people.' But Aaron remained silent.
Joshua 5:15
The captain (commander) of Jehovah's host (army) said to Joshua: Take your shoes from your feet, for the place where you stand is holy. And at once Joshua did so.
1 Samuel 13:12-13
So I thought the Philistines will come against me at Gilgal. I have not sought Jehovah's favor. I felt pressured into sacrificing the burnt offering.
1 Samuel 15:21-22
The people took from the plunder of the flock the best of the sheep and cattle to sacrifice to Jehovah your God in Gilgal.
2 Chronicles 26:16
However when he became powerful, his pride destroyed him. He was unfaithful to Jehovah his God. He went into Jehovah's Temple to burn incense on the incense altar.
Psalm 50:8-18
I do not reprove you for your sacrifices or burnt offerings, which are constantly (always) in front of me.
Malachi 1:10-11
Jehovah of Hosts continues: Is there one among you who will shut the Temple doors to prevent lighting a useless fire on my altar. I am not pleased with you! I will not accept the offerings you bring me.
Acts 17:11
The Bereans were nobler than those in Thessalonica because they received the word with all readiness of mind and examined the Scriptures daily to see if what Paul told them was true.