Therefore, if you are offering your gift at the altar and there remember that your brother has something against you,

leave your gift there before the altar, and go. First be reconciled to your brother; and then come and offer your gift.

And you say, 'If anyone swears by the altar, it means nothing; but if anyone swears by the gift that is on it, he is bound by his oath.'

You blind men! For which is greater, the gift or the altar that makes the gift sacred?

Therefore, he who swears by the altar swears by it and by everything on it.

that on you may come all the righteous blood shed on the earth, from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zechariah, son of Berechiah, whom you murdered between the temple and the altar.

Then an angel of the Lord appeared to him, standing on the right side of the altar of incense.

from the blood of Abel to the blood of Zechariah, who perished between the altar and the sanctuary. Yes, I tell you, it shall be required of this generation.

For as I passed along, and observed the objects of your worship, I found also an altar with this inscription, 'TO AN UNKNOWN GOD.'What therefore you worship as unknown, this I proclaim to you.

Do you not know that those who work in the temple get their food from the temple, and those who serve at the altar share in what is offered on the altar?

Consider Israel after the flesh; are not those who eat the sacrifices partners in the altar?

For the one of whom these things are spoken belonged to another tribe, from which no one has ever served at the altar.

having the golden altar of incense and the ark of the covenant covered on all sides with gold, which contained a golden jar holding the manna, and Aaron's rod that budded, and the tables of the covenant;

We have an altar from which those who serve the tabernacle have no right to eat.

Was not Abraham our father justified by works when he offered up Isaac his son on the altar?

When he opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of those who had been slain because of the word of God and the testimony they had maintained;

Another angel, who had a golden censer, came and stood at the altar. And he was given much incense to offer, with the prayers of all the saints, on the golden altar before the throne.

Then the angel took the censer and filled it with fire from the altar and threw it on the earth; and there were peals of thunder, voices, flashes of lightning, and an earthquake.

Then the sixth angel sounded his trumpet, and I heard a voice from the four horns of the golden altar which is before God,

Then I was given a measuring rod like a staff, and I was told, "Rise and measure the temple of God and the altar and those who worship there.

Then another angel came out from the altar, the one who has power over fire, and he called with a loud voice to him who had the sharp sickle, "Put in your sharp sickle, and gather the clusters from the vine of the earth, because its grapes are ripe."

And I heard the altar saying, "Yes, O Lord God, the Almighty, true and just are your judgments."