Proverbs 21:27

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The offering of evil-doers is disgusting: how much more when they give it with an evil purpose!

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  • Prov 15:8 : 8 The offering of the evil-doer is disgusting to the Lord, but the prayer of the upright man is his delight.
  • Isa 66:3 : 3 He who puts an ox to death puts a man to death; he who makes an offering of a lamb puts a dog to death; he who makes a meal offering makes an offering of pig's blood; he who makes an offering of perfumes for a sign gives worship to an image: as they have gone after their desires, and their soul takes pleasure in their disgusting things;
  • Jer 6:20 : 20 To what purpose does sweet perfume come to me from Sheba, and spices from a far country? your burned offerings give me no pleasure, your offerings of beasts are not pleasing to me.
  • Jer 7:11-12 : 11 Has this house, which is named by my name, become a hole of thieves to you? Truly I, even I, have seen it, says the Lord. 12 But go now to my place which was in Shiloh, where I put my name at first, and see what I did to it because of the evil-doing of my people Israel.
  • Amos 5:21-22 : 21 Your feasts are disgusting to me, I will have nothing to do with them; I will take no delight in your holy meetings. 22 Even if you give me your burned offerings and your meal offerings, I will not take pleasure in them: I will have nothing to do with the peace-offerings of your fat beasts.
  • Matt 23:13 : 13 But a curse is on you, scribes and Pharisees, false ones! because you are shutting the kingdom of heaven against men: for you do not go in yourselves, and those who are going in, you keep back.
  • Prov 28:9 : 9 As for the man whose ear is turned away from hearing the law, even his prayer is disgusting.
  • Isa 1:11-16 : 11 What use to me is the number of the offerings which you give me? says the Lord; your burned offerings of sheep, and the best parts of fat cattle, are a weariness to me; I take no pleasure in the blood of oxen, or of lambs, or of he-goats. 12 At whose request do you come before me, making my house unclean with your feet? 13 Give me no more false offerings; the smoke of burning flesh is disgusting to me, so are your new moons and Sabbaths and your holy meetings. 14 Your new moons and your regular feasts are a grief to my soul: they are a weight in my spirit; I am crushed under them. 15 And when your hands are stretched out to me, my eyes will be turned away from you: even though you go on making prayers, I will not give ear: your hands are full of blood. 16 Be washed, make yourselves clean; put away the evil of your doings from before my eyes; let there be an end of sinning;
  • 1 Sam 13:12-13 : 12 I said, Now the Philistines will come down on me at Gilgal, and I have made no prayer for help to the Lord: and so, forcing myself to do it, I made a burned offering. 13 And Samuel said to Saul, You have done a foolish thing: you have not kept the rules which the Lord your God gave you; it was the purpose of the Lord to make your authority over Israel safe for ever.
  • 1 Sam 15:21-23 : 21 But the people took some of their goods, sheep and oxen, the chief of the things which were put to the curse, to make an offering of them to the Lord your God in Gilgal. 22 And Samuel said, Has the Lord as much delight in offerings and burned offerings as in the doing of his orders? Truly, to do his pleasure is better than to make offerings, and to give ear to him than the fat of sheep. 23 For to go against his orders is like the sin of those who make use of secret arts, and pride is like giving worship to images. Because you have put away from you the word of the Lord, he has put you from your place as king.
  • Ps 50:8-9 : 8 I will not take up a cause against you because of your offerings, or because of your burned offerings, which are ever before me. 9 I will take no ox out of your house, or he-goats from your flocks; 10 For every beast of the woodland is mine, and the cattle on a thousand hills. 11 I see all the birds of the mountains, and the beasts of the field are mine. 12 If I had need of food, I would not give you word of it; for the earth is mine and all its wealth. 13 Am I to take the flesh of the ox for my food, or the blood of goats for my drink?

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  • Prov 15:8-9
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    8 The offering of the evil-doer is disgusting to the Lord, but the prayer of the upright man is his delight.

    9 The way of the evil-doer is disgusting to the Lord, but he who goes after righteousness is dear to him.

  • Prov 29:27
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    27 An evil man is disgusting to the upright, and he who is upright is disgusting to evil-doers.

  • Prov 21:3-4
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    3 To do what is right and true is more pleasing to the Lord than an offering.

    4 A high look and a heart of pride, *** of the evil-doer is sin.

  • Prov 17:23
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    23 A sinner takes an offering out of his robe, to get a decision for himself in a cause.

  • Prov 15:26
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    26 Evil designs are disgusting to the Lord, but the words of the clean-hearted are pleasing.

  • Ps 10:3
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    3 For the evil-doer is lifted up because of the purpose of his heart, and he whose mind is fixed on wealth is turned away from the Lord, saying evil against him.

  • Prov 21:10
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    10 The desire of the evil-doer is fixed on evil: he has no kind feeling for his neighbour.

  • Prov 21:26
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    26 All the day the sinner goes after his desire: but the upright man gives freely, keeping nothing back.

  • Prov 11:20
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    20 The uncontrolled are hated by the Lord, but those whose ways are without error are his delight

  • Prov 17:15
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    15 He who gives a decision for the evil-doer and he who gives a decision against the upright, are equally disgusting to the Lord.

  • Prov 21:7
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    7 By their violent acts the evil-doers will be pulled away, because they have no desire to do what is right.

  • Prov 21:18
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    18 The evil-doer will be given as a price for the life of the good man, and the worker of deceit in the place of the upright.

  • Deut 17:1
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    1 No ox or sheep which has a mark on it or is damaged in any way may be offered to the Lord your God: for that is disgusting to the Lord your God.

  • Prov 11:23
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    23 The desire of the upright man is only for good, but wrath is waiting for the evil-doer.

  • Isa 66:3
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    3 He who puts an ox to death puts a man to death; he who makes an offering of a lamb puts a dog to death; he who makes a meal offering makes an offering of pig's blood; he who makes an offering of perfumes for a sign gives worship to an image: as they have gone after their desires, and their soul takes pleasure in their disgusting things;

  • Prov 21:12
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    12 The Upright One, looking on the house of the evil-doer, lets sinners be overturned to their destruction.

  • Prov 19:28
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    28 A good-for-nothing witness makes sport of the judge's decision: and the mouth of evil-doers sends out evil like a stream.

  • Deut 25:16
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    16 For all who do such things, and all whose ways are not upright, are disgusting to the Lord your God.

  • Prov 11:1
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    1 Scales of deceit are hated by the Lord, but a true weight is his delight.

  • Job 21:30
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    30 How the evil man goes free in the day of trouble, and has salvation in the day of wrath?

  • Prov 11:18
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    18 The sinner gets the payment of deceit; but his reward is certain who puts in the seed of righteousness.

  • Ps 34:21
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    21 Evil will put an end to the sinner, and those who are haters of righteousness will come to destruction.

  • Prov 21:29
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    29 The evil-doer makes his face hard, but as for the upright, he gives thought to his way.

  • Mic 6:10
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    10 Am I to let the stores of the evil-doer go out of my memory, and the short measure, which is cursed?

  • Ps 37:32
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    32 The sinners are watching the upright man, desiring to put him to death.

  • Mal 1:8
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    8 And when you give what is blind for an offering, it is no evil! and when you give what is damaged and ill, it is no evil! Give it now to your ruler; will he be pleased with you, or will you have his approval? says the Lord of armies.

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    25 When he says fair words, have no belief in him; for in his heart are seven evils:

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    5 The upright man is a hater of false words: the evil-doer gets a bad name and is put to shame.

  • Prov 6:17
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    17 Eyes of pride, a false tongue, hands which take life without cause;

  • Ps 51:16-17
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    16 You have no desire for an offering or I would give it; you have no delight in burned offerings.

    17 The offerings of God are a broken spirit; a broken and sorrowing heart, O God, you will not put from you.

  • Prov 20:23
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    23 Unequal weights are disgusting to the Lord, and false scales are not good.

  • Job 15:16
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    16 How much less one who is disgusting and unclean, a man who takes in evil like water!

  • Prov 17:4
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    4 A wrongdoer gives attention to evil lips, and a man of deceit gives ear to a damaging tongue.

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    31 If the upright man is rewarded on earth, how much more the evil-doer and the sinner!

  • Ps 36:1
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    1 <To the chief music-maker. Of the servant of the Lord. Of David.> The sin of the evil-doer says in his heart, There is no fear of the Lord before his eyes.

  • Prov 16:27
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    27 A good-for-nothing man is a designer of evil, and in his lips there is a burning fire.

  • Prov 16:12
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    12 Evil-doing is disgusting to kings: for the seat of the ruler is based on righteousness.

  • Ps 112:10
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    10 The sinner will see it with grief; he will be wasted away with envy; the desire of the evil-doers will come to nothing.

  • Ps 37:21
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    21 The sinner takes money and does not give it back; but the upright man has mercy, and gives to others.

  • Isa 5:23
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    23 Who for a reward give support to the cause of the sinner, and who take away the righteousness of the upright from him.

  • Prov 24:15
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    15 Do not keep a secret watch, O evil-doer, against the fields of the upright man, or send destruction on his resting-place:

  • Prov 15:28
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    28 The heart of the upright gives thought to his answer; but from the mouth of the evil-doer comes a stream of evil things.

  • Prov 12:5
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    5 The purposes of upright men are right, but the designs of evil-doers are deceit.

  • Prov 24:24
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    24 He who says to the evil-doer, You are upright, will be cursed by peoples and hated by nations.