If, therefore, you offer your gift on the altar, and there remember that your brother has any thing against you,

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

If a man swears by the altar, it is nothing; but if be swears by the gift which is on it, he is bound.

Fools and blind! For which is greater, the gift, or the altar which sanctifies the gift?

He then that swears by the altar, swears by it, and by all things on it;

that all the righteous blood shed on the earth, from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zachariah, son of Bararchiah, whom you killed between the temple and the altar, may come upon you.

And 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 Zachariah, who perished between the altar and the house. Yes, I tell you, it shall be required of this generation.

For as I passed through, and observed your objects of worship, I found also an altar on which was inscribed, TO AN UNKNOWN GOD. What therefore you worship as unknown, this I declare to you.

Know you not that those who perform sacred rites eat from the temple? Those who wait on the altar partake of the altar?

Consider Israel after the flesh; are not those who eat the sacrifices partakers of the altar?

For he of whom these things are said belonged to another tribe, of which no one attended to the altar;

We have an altar of 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?

And when he opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of those killed for the word of God and for the testimony which they had.

And another angel came and stood by the altar, having a golden censer, and there was given him much incense to present with the prayers of all the saints on the golden altar before the throne.

And the angel took the censer and filled it from the fire of the altar, and cast it on the earth; and there were thunders and lightning and voices and an earthquake.

And the sixth angel sounded; and I heard a voice from the four horns of the golden altar before God,

And a rod was given me like a staff, and he said, Arise and measure the temple of God and the altar and those that worship in it.

and another angel came out from the altar, who had power over fire, and cried with a loud voice to him who had the sharp sickle, saying, Send your sharp sickle and gather the grapes of the vine of the earth, for its grapes are ripe.

And I heard the altar say, Yes, Lord God Almighty, true and righteous are thy judgments.