Verse 27

The sacrifice of the vngodly is abhomination: howe muche more when they offer the thing that is gotten with wickednesse?

Referenced Verses

  • Prov 15:8 : 8 The Lorde abhorreth the sacrifice of the vngodly: but the prayer of the righteous is acceptable vnto hym.
  • Isa 66:3 : 3 For who so slayeth an oxe for me, doth me so great dishonour as he that killeth a man: He that killeth a sheepe for me knetcheth a dogge: He that bryngeth me meate offerynges, offereth sivynes blood, who so maketh me a memorial of incense, prayseth the thyng that is vnryght: Yet take they such wayes in hande, and their soule delyghteth in these abhominations.
  • Jer 6:20 : 20 Wherefore bryng ye me incense from Saba, and sweete smelling calamus from farre countreys? your burnt offeringes displease me, and I reioyce not in your sacrifices.
  • Jer 7:11-12 : 11 What, thinke you this house that beareth my name, is a denne of thieues? And yet I see what you thinke, saith the Lorde. 12 Go to my place in Silo, wherevnto I gaue my name aforetyme, and looke well what I did to the same place for the wickednesse of my people of Israel.
  • Amos 5:21-22 : 21 I hate, I abhorre your feast dayes, and I will not smell in your solemne assemblies. 22 Though ye offer me burnt offeringes, and meate offeringes, I will not accept them, neither will I regarde the peace offering of your fat beastes.
  • Matt 23:13 : 13 Wo vnto you Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites: for ye shut vp the kingdome of heauen before men: ye neither go in your selues, neither suffer ye them that come, to enter in.
  • Prov 28:9 : 9 He that turneth away his eare from hearing the lawe, his prayer shalbe abhominable.
  • Isa 1:11-16 : 11 Why offer ye so many sacrifices to me, wyll the Lorde say? I am full of the burnt offeringes of weathers, & of the fatnesse of fed beastes, I haue no pleasure in the blood of bullockes, lambes, and goates. 12 When ye come to appeare before me treadyng in my courtes, who hath required this at your handes? 13 Offer me no mo oblations, for it is but lost labour: incense is an abhominable thyng vnto me, I may not away with your newe moones, your sabbathes & solempne meetynges, your solempne assemblies are wicked. 14 I hate your newe moones and appoynted feastes euen from my very heart, they make me weery, I can not abyde them. 15 When you holde out your handes, I wyll turne myne eyes from you: and though ye make many prayers, yet I wyll heare nothyng at all, seyng your handes are full of blood. 16 Washe you, make you cleane, put away your euyll thoughtes out of my syght: ceasse from doyng of euyll,
  • 1 Sam 13:12-13 : 12 Therfore sayde I, The Philistines shal come downe nowe vpon me to Gilgal, and I haue not made supplication vnto the Lord: I was bolde therfore, & offred a burnt offring. 13 And Samuel sayd to Saul: Thou art become a foole, thou hast not kept the commaundemet of the Lord thy God which he commauded thee: For at this time woulde the Lorde haue stablished thy kingdome vpon Israel for euer.
  • 1 Sam 15:21-23 : 21 But the people toke of ye spoyle, sheepe, oxen, and the chiefest of the thynges whiche shoulde haue ben destroyed, to offer vnto the Lord thy God in Gilgal. 22 And Samuel sayde: Hath the Lorde as great pleasure in burnt sacrifices and offerynges, as when the voyce of the Lorde is obeyed? Beholde, to obey, is better then sacrifice: and to hearken, is better then the fat of rammes. 23 For rebellion is as the sinne of witchcraft, and stubbernnesse is as the wickednes of idolatrie: Because thou hast cast away the worde of the Lorde, therefore he hath cast away thee also from being king.
  • Ps 50:8-9 : 8 I wyll not reproue thee because of thy sacrifices, or for thy burnt offerynges: for that they be not alway before me. 9 I wyll take no bullocke out of thy house: nor goates out of thy foldes. 10 For all the beastes of the forest are myne: and so are the cattel vpon a thousande hylles. 11 I knowe all the foules vpon the mountaynes: and the wylde beastes of the fielde are at my commaundement. 12 If I be hungry, I wyll not tell thee: for the whole worlde is myne, and all that is therin. 13 Thinkest thou that I will eate bulles fleshe: and drynke the blood of goates?