Quotes About Sacrifice

And where these have been forgiven, an offering for sin is no longer needed.

Therefore, brothers, since we have confidence to enter the Most Holy Place by the blood of Jesus,

by the new and living way opened for us through the curtain of His body,

and since we have a great priest over the house of God,

If we deliberately go on sinning after we have received the knowledge of the truth, no further sacrifice for sins remains,

How much more severely do you think one deserves to be punished who has trampled on the Son of God, profaned the blood of the covenant that sanctified him, and insulted the Spirit of grace?

You sympathized with those in prison and joyfully accepted the confiscation of your property, knowing that you yourselves had a better and permanent possession.

By faith Abel offered God a better sacrifice than Cain did. By faith he was commended as righteous when God gave approval to his gifts. And by faith he still speaks, even though he is dead.

By faith Abraham, when called to go to a place he would later receive as his inheritance, obeyed and went, without knowing where he was going.

If they had been thinking of the country they had left, they would have had opportunity to return.

By faith Abraham, when he was tested, offered up Isaac on the altar. He who had received the promises was ready to offer his one and only son,

even though God had said to him, “Through Isaac your offspring will be reckoned.”

Abraham reasoned that God could raise the dead, and in a sense, he did receive Isaac back from death.

By faith Mosesí parents hid him for three months after his birth, because they saw that he was a beautiful child, and they were unafraid of the kingís edict.

By faith Moses, when he was grown, refused to be called the son of Pharaohís daughter.

He chose to suffer oppression with Godís people rather than to experience the fleeting enjoyment of sin.

He valued disgrace for Christ above the treasures of Egypt, for he was looking ahead to his reward.

By faith Moses left Egypt, not fearing the kingís anger; he persevered because he saw Him who is invisible.

By faith he kept the Passover and the sprinkling of blood, so that the destroyer of the firstborn would not touch Israelís own firstborn.

Women received back their dead, raised to life again. Others were tortured and refused their release, so that they might gain a better resurrection.

Still others endured mocking and flogging, and even chains and imprisonment.

They were stoned, they were sawed in two, they were put to death by the sword. They went around in sheepskins and goatskins, destitute, oppressed, and mistreated.

The world was not worthy of them. They wandered in deserts and mountains, and hid in caves and holes in the ground.

Let us fix our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy set before Him endured the cross, scorning its shame, and sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.