Parallel Verses
Webster
The sacrifice of the wicked is abomination: how much more, when he bringeth it with a wicked mind?
New American Standard Bible
How much more when he brings it with evil intent!
King James Version
The sacrifice of the wicked is abomination: how much more, when he bringeth it with a wicked mind?
Holman Bible
how much more so
when he brings it with ulterior motives!
International Standard Version
What the wicked person sacrifices is detestable how much more when he offers it with vile motives!
A Conservative Version
The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination. How much more when he brings it with a wicked mind!
American Standard Version
The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination: How much more, when he bringeth it with a wicked mind!
Amplified
The sacrifice of the wicked is detestable and offensive [to the Lord].
How much more [unacceptable and insulting can it be] when he brings it with evil intention?
Bible in Basic English
The offering of evil-doers is disgusting: how much more when they give it with an evil purpose!
Darby Translation
The sacrifice of the wicked is abomination: how much more when they bring it with a wicked purpose!
Julia Smith Translation
The sacrifice of the unjust is an abomination, for also he will bring it in mischief.
King James 2000
The sacrifice of the wicked is abomination: how much more, when he brings it with a wicked mind?
Lexham Expanded Bible
The sacrifice of the wicked [is] an abomination; how much more when he brings it in divisiveness!
Modern King James verseion
The sacrifice of the wicked is hateful to God; how much more when he brings it with a wicked mind?
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
The sacrifice of the ungodly is abomination, for they offer the thing that is gotten with wickedness.
NET Bible
The wicked person's sacrifice is an abomination; how much more when he brings it with evil intent!
New Heart English Bible
The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination: how much more, when he brings it with a wicked mind.
The Emphasized Bible
The sacrifice of the lawless, is an abomination, how much more, when, with wickedness, he bringeth it in!
World English Bible
The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination: how much more, when he brings it with a wicked mind!
Youngs Literal Translation
The sacrifice of the wicked is abomination, Much more when in wickedness he bringeth it.
Interlinear
References
American
Word Count of 20 Translations in Proverbs 21:27
Verse Info
Context Readings
Proverbs Of Solomon
26 He coveteth greedily all the day long: but the righteous giveth and spareth not. 27 The sacrifice of the wicked is abomination: how much more, when he bringeth it with a wicked mind? 28 A false witness shall perish: but the man that heareth speaketh constantly.
Cross References
Proverbs 15:8
The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination to the LORD: but the prayer of the upright is his delight.
Isaiah 66:3
He that killeth an ox is as if he slew a man; he that sacrificeth a lamb, as if he cut off a dog's neck; he that offereth an oblation, as if he offered swine's blood; he that burneth incense, as if he blessed an idol. Yes, they have chosen their own ways, and their soul delighteth in their abominations.
Jeremiah 6:20
To what purpose cometh there to me incense from Sheba, and the sweet cane from a distant country? your burnt-offerings are not acceptable, nor your sacrifices sweet to me.
1 Samuel 13:12-13
Therefore said I, the Philistines will now come down upon me to Gilgal, and I have not made supplication to the LORD; I forced myself therefore, and offered a burnt-offering.
1 Samuel 15:21-23
But the people took of the spoil, sheep and oxen, the chief of the things which should have been utterly destroyed, to sacrifice to the LORD thy God in Gilgal.
Psalm 50:8-13
I will not reprove thee for thy sacrifices or thy burnt-offerings, to have been continually before me.
Proverbs 28:9
He that turneth away his ear from hearing the law, even his prayer shall be abomination.
Isaiah 1:11-16
To what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices to me? saith the LORD: I am full of the burnt-offerings of rams, and the fat of fed beasts; and I delight not in the blood of bullocks, or of lambs, or of he-goats.
Jeremiah 7:11-12
Is this house, which is called by my name, become a den of robbers in your eyes? Behold, even I have seen it, saith the LORD.
Amos 5:21-22
I hate, I despise your feast days, and I will not smell in your solemn assemblies.
Matthew 23:13
But woe to you, scribes and Pharisees! hypocrites! for ye shut up the kingdom of heaven against men: for ye neither go in yourselves, neither suffer ye them that are entering, to go in.