Bible Verses about 'Sacrifice'
- To do righteousness and justice
is more acceptable to the Lord than sacrifice. - But I with the voice of thanksgiving
will sacrifice to you;
what I have vowed I will pay.
Deliverance belongs to the Lord! - Go and learn what this means, ‘I desire mercy, not sacrifice.’ For I have not come to call the righteous but sinners.
- And walk in love, as Christ loved us and gave himself up for us, a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God.
- Those who bring thanksgiving as their sacrifice honor me;
to those who go the right way,
I will show the salvation of God. - The sacrifice acceptable to God is a broken spirit;
a broken and contrite heart, O God, you will not despise. - And he is the atoning sacrifice for our sins, and not for ours only but also for the sins of the whole world.
- I appeal to you therefore, brothers and sisters, on the basis of God’s mercy, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your reasonable act of worship.
- In this is love, not that we loved God but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the atoning sacrifice for our sins.
- And ‘to love him with all the heart and with all the understanding and with all the strength’ and ‘to love one’s neighbor as oneself’—this is much more important than all whole burnt offerings and sacrifices.
- Hence, as to the eating of food offered to idols, we know that “no idol in the world really exists” and that “there is no God but one.”
- For by a single offering he has perfected for all time those who are sanctified.
- O Lord, in the morning you hear my voice;
in the morning I plead my case to you and watch. - So Christ, having been offered once to bear the sins of many, will appear a second time, not to deal with sin but to save those who are eagerly waiting for him.
- And he did the same with the cup after supper, saying, “This cup that is poured out for you is the new covenant in my blood.”
- How much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without blemish to God, purify our conscience from dead works to worship the living God!
- Then he took a cup, and after giving thanks he gave it to them, saying, “Drink from it, all of you, for this is my blood of the covenant, which is poured out for many for the forgiveness of sins.”
- I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep.
- Take words with you
and return to the Lord;
say to him,
“Take away all guilt;
accept that which is good,
and we will offer
the fruit of our lips.” - If I give away all my possessions and if I hand over my body so that I may boast but do not have love, I gain nothing.
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Bible verse of the day
Trust in the Lord with all your heart,and do not rely on your own insight.
In all your ways acknowledge him,
and he will make straight your paths.
