Therefore if thou bring thy gift to the altar, and there remember, that thy brother hath ought against thee,

Leaving thy gift there before the altar, go; first be reconciled to thy brother, and then come and offer thy gift.

And whosoever shall swear by the altar, ye say, it is nothing: but whosoever shall swear by the gift that is upon it, is bound.

Ye fools and blind; for which is greater, the gift, or the altar that sanctifieth the gift?

He therefore that sweareth by the altar, sweareth by it and by all things thereon.

That upon you may come all the righteous blood shed on the earth, from the blood of Abel the righteous, to the blood of Zechariah the son of Barachiah, whom ye slew between the temple and the altar.

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

From the blood of Abel to the blood of Zechariah, who was destroyed between the temple and the altar: verily I say to you, it shall be required of this generation.

For as I passed along and beheld the objects of your worship, I found an altar, on which was inscribed, TO THE UNKNOWN GOD: him therefore whom ye worship without knowing him, I proclaim unto you.

Know ye not, that they who are employed about holy things, are fed out of the temple? And they who wait at the altar, are partakers with the altar.

Consider Israel after the flesh. Are not they who eat of the sacrifices, partakers of the altar?

For he of whom these things are spoken, pertaineth to another tribe, of which no man attended on the altar.

We have an altar, whereof they have no right to eat who serve the tabernacle.

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

And when he opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of them that had been slain for the word of God, and for the testimony which they held.

And another angel came and stood at the altar, having a golden censer, and much incense was given him, that he might place it with the prayers of all the saints upon the golden altar which is before the throne.

And the angel took the censer, and filled it with the fire of the altar, and threw it upon the earth, and there were thunderings, and lightnings, and voices, and an earthquake.

And the sixth angel sounded, and I heard a voice from the four corners of the golden altar which is before God,

And there was given me a reed, like a measuring rod; and he said, Arise, and measure the temple of God, and the altar, and them that worship therein.

And another angel from the altar, who had power over fire, cried with a loud cry to him that had the sharp sickle, saying, Thrust in thy sickle and gather the clusters of the vine of the earth; for her grapes are fully ripe.

And I heard another from the altar, saying, Yea, Lord God Almighty; true and righteous are thy judgments.