Quotes About Sacrifice

To do righteousness and justice is more desirable to the LORD than sacrifice.

Better to live on a corner of the roof than to share a house with a quarrelsome wife.

All day long he covets more, but the righteous give without restraint.

The sacrifice of the wicked is detestable—how much more so when brought with ill intent!

Better to live on a corner of the roof than to share a house with a quarrelsome wife.

the lambs will provide you with clothing, and the goats with the price of a field.

A stingy man hastens after wealth and does not know that poverty awaits him.

She is like the merchant ships, bringing her food from afar.

She rises while it is still night to provide food for her household and portions for her maidservants.

Guard your steps when you go to the house of God. Draw near to listen rather than to offer the sacrifice of fools, who do not know that they do wrong.

It is the same for all: There is a common fate for the righteous and the wicked, for the good and the bad, for the clean and the unclean, for the one who sacrifices and the one who does not. As it is for the good, so it is for the sinner; as it is for the one who makes a vow, so it is for the one who refuses to take a vow.

Now a poor wise man was found in the city, and he saved the city by his wisdom. Yet no one remembered that poor man.

Before the day breaks and the shadows flee, I will make my way to the mountain of myrrh and to the hill of frankincense.

I have taken off my robe—must I put it back on? I have washed my feet—must I soil them again?

I rose up to open for my beloved. My hands dripped with myrrh, my fingers with flowing myrrh on the handles of the bolt.

Mighty waters cannot quench love; rivers cannot sweep it away. If a man were to give all the wealth of his house for love, his offer would be utterly scorned.

“What good to Me is your multitude of sacrifices?” says the LORD. “I am full from the burnt offerings of rams and the fat of well-fed cattle; I take no delight in the blood of bulls and lambs and goats.

When you come to appear before Me, who has required this of you—this trampling of My courts?

Bring your worthless offerings no more; your incense is detestable to Me—your New Moons, Sabbaths, and convocations. I cannot endure iniquity in a solemn assembly.

I hate your New Moons and your appointed feasts. They have become a burden to Me; I am weary of bearing them.

Your silver has become dross; your fine wine is diluted with water.

In that day the Lord will take away their finery: their anklets and headbands and crescents;

Your men will fall by the sword, and your warriors in battle.

Then one of the seraphim flew to me, and in his hand was a glowing coal that he had taken with tongs from the altar.