If therefore thou shouldest offer thy gift at the altar, and there shouldest remember that thy brother has something against thee,

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

And, Whosoever shall swear by the altar, it is nothing; but whosoever shall swear by the gift that is upon it is a debtor.

Fools and blind ones, for which is greater, the gift, or the altar which sanctifies the gift?

He therefore that swears by the altar swears by it and by all things that are upon it.

so that all righteous blood shed upon the earth should come upon you, from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zacharias son of Barachias, whom ye slew between the temple and the altar.

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

from the blood of Abel to the blood of Zacharias, who perished between the altar and the house; yea, I say to you, it shall be required of this generation.

And his elder son was in the field; and as, coming up, he drew nigh to the house, he heard music and dancing.

But they, having heard that, went out one by one beginning from the elder ones until the last; and Jesus was left alone and the woman standing there.

for, passing through and beholding your shrines, I found also an altar on which was inscribed, To the unknown God. Whom therefore ye reverence, not knowing him, him I announce to you.

Do ye not know that they who labour at sacred things eat of the offerings offered in the temple; they that attend at the altar partake with the altar?

See Israel according to flesh: are not they who eat the sacrifices in communion with the altar?

Rebuke not an elder sharply, but exhort him as a father, younger men as brethren,

elder women as mothers, younger women as sisters, with all purity.

Against an elder receive not an accusation unless where there are two or three witnesses.

that the elder men be sober, grave, discreet, sound in faith, in love, in patience;

that the elder women in like manner be in deportment as becoming those who have to say to sacred things, not slanderers, not enslaved to much wine, teachers of what is right;

For he, of whom these things are said, belongs to a different tribe, of which no one has ever been attached to the service of the altar.

We have an altar of which they have no right to eat who serve the tabernacle;

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

The elders which are among you I exhort, who am their fellow-elder and witness of the sufferings of the Christ, who also am partaker of the glory about to be revealed:

Likewise ye younger, be subject to the elder, and all of you bind on humility towards one another; for God sets himself against the proud, but to the humble gives grace.

The elder to the elect lady and her children, whom I love in truth, and not I only but also all who have known the truth,

The elder to the beloved Gaius, whom I love in truth.

And when it opened the fifth seal, I saw underneath 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 to him, that he might give efficacy to the prayers of all saints at the golden altar which was 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 voices, and thunders and lightnings, and an earthquake.

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

And there was given to me a reed like a staff, saying, Rise, and measure the temple of God, and the altar, and them that worship in it.

And another angel came out of the altar, having power over fire, and called with a loud cry to him that had the sharp sickle, saying, Send thy sharp sickle, and gather the bunches of the vine of the earth; for her grapes are fully ripened.

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