Psalm 51:17

Create In Me A Clean Heart, O God

¹⁶ For thou delight not in sacrifice, else I would give it. Thou have no pleasure in burnt-offering. ¹⁷ The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit. A broken and contrite heart, O God, thou will not despise. ¹⁸ Do good in thy good pleasure to Zion. Build thou the walls of Jerusalem.

Broken and a Contrite Heart

Pleasing to God

Sacrifices of God

O God

Sin

Psalm 34:18

LORD is near to those who are of a broken heart, and saves such as are of a contrite spirit.

Hebrews 13:16

But do not forget benevolence and fellowship, for God is well pleased with such sacrifices.

2 Kings 22:19

because thy heart was tender, and thou humbled thyself before LORD when thou heard what I spoke against this place, and against the inhabitants of it, that they should become a desolation and a curse, and have torn thy clothes, and

2 Chronicles 33:12-13

And when he was in distress, he besought LORD his God, and humbled himself greatly before the God of his fathers.

Psalm 22:24

For he has not despised nor abhorred the affliction of the afflicted, neither has he hid his face from him, but when he cried to him, he heard.

Psalm 102:17

He has regarded the prayer of the destitute, and has not despised their prayer.

Psalm 107:22

And let them offer the sacrifices of thanksgiving, and declare his works with singing.

Psalm 147:3

He heals the broken in heart, and binds up their wounds.

Isaiah 57:15

For thus says the high and lofty One who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy: I dwell in the high and holy place, also with him who is of a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart o

Isaiah 61:1-3

The Spirit of lord LORD is upon me, because LORD has anointed me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent me to heal the broken-hearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, {and recovering of sight to the blind (LXX/NT)}, and

Isaiah 66:2

For all these things my hand has made, and all these things came to be, says LORD. But to this man I will look, even to him who is poor and of a contrite spirit, and who trembles at my word.

Ezekiel 9:3-4

And the glory of the God of Israel went up from the cherub, upon which it was, to the threshold of the house, and he called to the man clothed in linen who had the writer's case by his side.

Ezekiel 9:6

Kill utterly the old man, the young man, and the virgin, and little sons, and women, but come not near any man upon whom is the mark. And begin at my sanctuary. Then they began at the old men who were before the house.

Amos 5:21

I hate, I despise your feasts, and I will take no delight in your solemn assemblies.

Matthew 5:3

Blessed are the poor in spirit, because the kingdom of the heavens is theirs.

Mark 12:33

And to love him from the whole heart, and from the whole understanding, and from the whole soul, and from the whole strength, and to love his neighbor as himself, is more than all whole burnt-offerings and sacrifices.

Luke 7:39-50

But when the Pharisee who invited him saw it, he spoke within himself, saying, This man, if he were a prophet, would know who and what kind the woman is who touches him, that she is sinful.

Luke 15:2-7

And the Pharisees and the scholars murmured, saying, This man receives sinners and eats with them.

Luke 15:10

Thus I say to you, there becomes joy in the presence of the agents of God over one sinner who repents.

Luke 15:21-32

And the son said to him, Father, I have sinned against heaven and in thy sight. I am no more worthy to be called thy son.

Luke 18:11-14

Having stood by himself, the Pharisee prayed these things: God, I thank thee that I am not as the rest of men, predatory, unjust, adulterers, or even as this tax collector.

Philippians 4:18

But I receive all things, and I abound. I have been filled, having received from Epaphroditus the things from you, an aroma of fragrance, an acceptable sacrifice well-pleasing to God.

1 Peter 2:5

ye also, as living stones, are built up a spiritual house, a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.

Romans 12:1

I beseech you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, your reasonable service.