Quotes About Offerings

For My name will be great among the nations, from where the sun rises to where it sets. In every place, incense and pure offerings will be presented in My name, because My name will be great among the nations,” says the LORD of Hosts.

“But you profane it when you say, ëThe table of the Lord is defiled, and as for its fruit, its food is contemptible.í

You also say: ëOh, what a nuisance!í And you turn up your nose at it,” says the LORD of Hosts. “You bring offerings that are stolen, lame, or sick! Should I accept these from your hands?” asks the LORD.

“But cursed is the deceiver who has an acceptable male in his flock and vows to give it, but sacrifices a defective animal to the Lord. For I am a great King,” says the LORD of Hosts, “and My name is to be feared among the nations.

Then the offerings of Judah and Jerusalem will please the LORD, as in days of old and years gone by.

Will a man rob God? Yet you are robbing Me! But you ask, ëHow do we rob You?í In tithes and offerings.

But God turned away from them and gave them over to the worship of the host of heaven, as it is written in the book of the prophets: ëDid you bring Me sacrifices and offerings forty years in the wilderness, O house of Israel?

The priest of Zeus, whose temple was just outside the city, brought bulls and wreaths to the city gates, hoping to offer a sacrifice along with the crowds.

After several years, then, I returned to Jerusalem to bring alms to my people and to present offerings.

I am speaking in human terms because of the weakness of your flesh. Just as you used to offer the parts of your body in slavery to impurity and to escalating wickedness, so now offer them in slavery to righteousness leading to holiness.