Malachi 1:10
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.
Jeremiah 6:20
What purpose does frankincense come to me from Sheba and the sweet cane from a distant land? Your burnt offerings are not acceptable and your sacrifices are not pleasing to me.
Job 1:9-11
Satan replied: Would Job respect you if he got nothing out of it?
Isaiah 1:11-15
Jehovah says: What do your many animal sacrifices mean to me? I have had enough of your burnt offerings of rams and enough fat from your fattened calves. I am not pleased with the blood of bulls, lambs, or male goats.
Isaiah 56:11-12
They are dogs with mighty appetites. They never have enough! They are shepherds who lack understanding. They all turn to their own way and each one seeks dishonest (unjust) gain.
Jeremiah 6:13
From the least of them even to the greatest of them, everyone is greedy for gain! From the prophet even to the priest everyone deals falsely!
Jeremiah 8:10
So I will give their wives to other men. I will give their fields to new owners. From the least even to the greatest everyone is greedy for gain. From the prophet even to the priest everyone is deceitful.
Jeremiah 14:12
Even if they go without food, I will not listen to their cries for help. Even if they sacrifice burnt offerings and grain offerings, I will not be pleased with them. But I will destroy these people with wars, famines, and plagues.
Hosea 5:6
They will go with their flocks and with their herds to seek Jehovah. But they will not find him. He has withdrawn from them.
Amos 5:21-24
I hate, I despise (reject) your feasts, and I will take no delight in your solemn assemblies.
Micah 3:11
The leaders judge for a bribe, and the priests teach for wages! The prophets predict for money yet they rely on Jehovah when they say: Is not Jehovah in the midst of us? No evil will come upon us.
John 10:12
The hired man owns no sheep. He is not the shepherd. He sees the wolf coming and abandons the sheep. The wolf snatches them, and scatters them.
1 Corinthians 9:13
Do you not know that they who minister about holy things live off the things of the temple? And they who wait at the altar are partakers with the altar?
Philippians 2:21
They all seek their own interest and not the things of Jesus Christ.
Hebrews 10:38
My righteous people will live by faith. If any of them turn back, I will not be pleased with them.
1 Peter 5:2
Shepherd the flock of God in your care. Exercise the oversight, not of constraint, but willingly, according to the will of God. Do not do it for dishonest gain, but eagerly.