Malachi 1:13
"And you say, "What a burden!' and sniff contemptuously at it," says the LORD of the Heavenly Armies, "when you present maimed, crippled, and diseased animals, and when you bring the offering. Should I accept this from your hand?" asks the LORD.
Micah 6:3
"My people, what have I done to you, and how have I offended you? Answer me!
Leviticus 22:8
He is not to eat the carcass of an animal that was torn by animals, thereby defiling himself with it. I am the LORD.
Leviticus 22:19-23
so that he'll be sure to be accepted, he is to offer a male without defect from the bulls, the lambs, and the goats.
Deuteronomy 15:21
If it has a blemish lameness, blindness, or any kind of defect you must not sacrifice it to the LORD your God.
1 Samuel 2:29
Why, then, do all of you show contempt for my sacrifice and offering that I've commanded for my dwelling? And you honor your sons more than me in order to fatten yourselves from the best of all the offerings of my people Israel.'
Isaiah 1:12
"When you come to present yourselves in my presence, who has required you to trample on my courts?
Isaiah 43:22-23
"And yet you didn't call upon me, Jacob; indeed, you are tired of me, Israel!
Isaiah 57:6
"Among the smooth stones of the ravines is your portion there they are as your lot. To them you have poured out drink offerings; you have brought grain offerings. Should I be lenient over such things?
Jeremiah 7:9-11
Will you steal, murder, commit adultery, swear by false gods, burn incense to Baal, follow other gods that you don't know,
Jeremiah 7:21-24
This is what the LORD of the Heavenly Armies, the God of Israel, says:
Ezekiel 4:14
"Now, Lord GOD," I replied, "I've never been defiled, ever since I was young until now. I haven't eaten an animal that died on its own or was torn by beasts, and no unclean meat has ever entered my mouth!"
Ezekiel 44:31
However, the priests are not to eat any bird or animal that has died a natural death or that has been torn apart."
Amos 5:21-23
"I hate I despise your festival days, and your solemn convocations stink.
Amos 8:5
and who are saying, "When will the New Moon fade so we may sell grain, and the Sabbath conclude so we may market winnowed wheat? shortchanging the measure, raising the price, falsifying the scales by treachery,
Zechariah 7:5-6
"Talk to everyone in the land, as well as to the priests. Ask them, "When you were fasting and mourning during the fifth and seventh months for the past seventy years, were you really fasting for me?
Malachi 1:7-8
By presenting defiled food on my altar. And you ask, "How have we defiled you?' By saying, "The Table of the LORD is contemptible.'
Malachi 2:13
"This is another thing you do: you flood the altar of the LORD with tears, weeping and wailing because he no longer pays attention to your offering nor takes pleasure in it from your hand.
Matthew 6:1-2
"Be careful not to practice your righteousness in front of people in order to be noticed by them. If you do, you will have no reward from your Father in heaven.
Matthew 6:5
"And whenever you pray, don't be like the hypocrites who love to stand in the synagogues and on the street corners so that they will be seen by people. I tell all of you with certainty, they have their full reward!
Matthew 6:16
"Whenever you fast, don't be gloomy like the hypocrites, because they put on sad faces to show others they are fasting. I tell all of you with certainty, they have their full reward!
Mark 14:4-5
Irritated, some who were there asked one another, "Why was the perfume wasted like this?
Mark 14:37-38
When he went back, he found his disciples asleep. "Simon, are you asleep?" he asked Peter. "You couldn't stay awake for one hour, could you?