'Sacrifice' in the Bible

Then Jesus told him, "See to it that you don't speak to anyone. Instead, go and show yourself to the priest, and then offer the sacrifice that Moses commanded as proof to the authorities."

Go and learn what this means: "I want mercy and not sacrifice,' because I did not come to call righteous people, but sinners."

If you had known what "I want mercy and not sacrifice' means, you would not have condemned the innocent,

Because everyone will be salted with fire, and every sacrifice will be salted with salt.

They also offered a sacrifice according to what is specified in the Law of the Lord: "a pair of turtledoves or two young pigeons."

"At that time they even made a calf to be their idol, offered a sacrifice to it, and delighted in what they had made with their hands.

Then Paul took those men and the next day purified himself with them. Then he went into the Temple to announce the time when their days of purification would end and when the sacrifice would be offered for each of them.

The one who did not spare his own Son, but offered him as a sacrifice for all of us, surely will give us all things, along with his Son, won't he?

However, if someone says to you, "This was offered as a sacrifice," don't eat it, both out of consideration for the one who told you and also for the sake of conscience.

Even if I give away everything that I have and sacrifice myself, but have no love, I gain nothing.

Live lovingly, just as the Messiah also loved us and gave himself for us as an offering and sacrifice, a fragrant aroma to God.

Yet even if I am being poured out like an offering as part of the sacrifice and service I offer for your faith, I rejoice, and I share my joy with all of you.

I have been paid in full and have more than enough. I am fully supplied, now that I have received from Epaphroditus what you sent a fragrant aroma, a sacrifice acceptable and pleasing to God.

Nor did he go into heaven to sacrifice himself again and again, the way the high priest goes into the Holy Place every year with blood that is not his own.

Then he would have had to suffer repeatedly since the creation of the world. But now, at the end of the ages, he has appeared once for all to remove sin by his sacrifice.

By God's will we have been sanctified once and for all through the sacrifice of the body of Jesus, the Messiah.

But when this priest had offered for all time one sacrifice for sins, "he sat down at the right hand of God."

For if we choose to go on sinning after we have learned the full truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins,

By faith Abel offered to God a better sacrifice than Cain did, and by faith he was declared to be righteous, since God himself accepted his offerings. And by faith he continues to speak, even though he is dead.

By faith Abraham, when he was tested, offered Isaac he who had received the promises was about to offer his unique son in sacrifice,

Therefore, through him let us always bring God a sacrifice of praise, that is, the fruit of our lips that confess his name.

It is he who is the atoning sacrifice for our sins, and not for ours only, but also for the whole world's.

This is love: not that we have loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the atoning sacrifice for our sins.