Psalms 40:6

Bible in Basic English (1941)

You had no desire for offerings of beasts or fruits of the earth; ears you made for me: for burned offerings and sin offerings you made no request.

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Referenced Verses

  • Ps 51:16 : 16 You have no desire for an offering or I would give it; you have no delight in burned offerings.
  • 1 Sam 15:22 : 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.
  • Job 33:16 : 16 Then he makes his secrets clear to men, so that they are full of fear at what they see;
  • Isa 1:11 : 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.
  • Heb 10:5-9 : 5 So that when he comes into the world, he says, You had no desire for offerings, but you made a body ready for me; 6 You had no joy in burned offerings or in offerings for sin. 7 Then I said, See, I have come to do your pleasure, O God (as it is said of me in the roll of the book). 8 After saying, You had no desire for offerings, for burned offerings or offerings for sin (which are made by the law) and you had no pleasure in them, 9 Then he said, See, I have come to do your pleasure. He took away the old order, so that he might put the new order in its place. 10 By that pleasure we have been made holy, by the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once and for ever. 11 And every priest takes his place at the altar day by day, doing what is necessary, and making again and again the same offerings which are never able to take away sins. 12 But when Jesus had made one offering for sins for ever, he took his place at the right hand of God;
  • Exod 21:6 : 6 Then his master is to take him to the gods of the house, and at the door, or at its framework, he is to make a hole in his ear with a sharp-pointed instrument; and he will be his servant for ever.
  • Amos 5:22 : 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.
  • Jer 7:21-23 : 21 These are the words of the Lord of armies, the God of Israel: Put your burned offerings with your offerings of beasts, and take flesh for your food. 22 For I said nothing to your fathers, and gave them no orders, on the day when I took them out of Egypt, about burned offerings or offerings of beasts: 23 But this was the order I gave them, saying, Give ear to my voice, and I will be your God, and you will be my people: go in all the way ordered by me, so that all may be well for you.
  • Hos 6:6 : 6 Because my desire is for mercy and not offerings; for the knowledge of God more than for burned offerings.
  • Ps 50:8 : 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.
  • Isa 50:4-5 : 4 The Lord God has given me the tongue of those who are experienced, so that I may be able to give the word a special sense for the feeble: every morning my ear is open to his teaching, like those who are experienced: 5 And I have not put myself against him, or let my heart be turned back from him.
  • 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;
  • Matt 9:13 : 13 But go and take to heart the sense of these words, My desire is for mercy, not offerings: for I have come not to get the upright, but sinners.
  • Matt 12:7 : 7 But if these words had been in your minds, My desire is for mercy and not for offerings, you would not have been judging those who have done no wrong.

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  • Heb 10:4-9
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    4 Because it is not possible for the blood of oxen and goats to take away sins.

    5 So that when he comes into the world, he says, You had no desire for offerings, but you made a body ready for me;

    6 You had no joy in burned offerings or in offerings for sin.

    7 Then I said, See, I have come to do your pleasure, O God (as it is said of me in the roll of the book).

    8 After saying, You had no desire for offerings, for burned offerings or offerings for sin (which are made by the law) and you had no pleasure in them,

    9 Then he said, See, I have come to do your pleasure. He took away the old order, so that he might put the new order in its place.

  • Ps 51:15-17
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    86%

    15 O Lord, let my lips be open, so that my mouth may make clear your praise.

    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.

  • Ps 40:7-8
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    7 Then I said, See, I come; it is recorded of me in the roll of the book,

    8 My delight is to do your pleasure, O my God; truly, your law is in my heart.

  • Hos 6:6
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    6 Because my desire is for mercy and not offerings; for the knowledge of God more than for burned offerings.

  • Ps 50:8-9
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    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;

  • Isa 1:11-13
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    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.

  • Isa 43:23-24
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    23 You have not made me burned offerings of sheep, or given me honour with your offerings of beasts; I did not make you servants to give me an offering, and I did not make you tired with requests for perfumes.

    24 You have not got me sweet-smelling plants with your money, or given me pleasure with the fat of your offerings: but you have made me a servant to your sins, and you have made me tired with your evil doings.

  • Amos 5:22-23
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    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.

    23 Take away from me the noise of your songs; my ears are shut to the melody of your instruments.

  • Ps 51:19
    74%

    19 Then you will have delight in the offerings of righteousness, in burned offerings and offerings of beasts; then they will make offerings of oxen on your altar.

  • Jer 6:20
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    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.

  • Ps 66:15
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    15 I will give you burned offerings of fat beasts, and the smoke of sheep; I will make offerings of oxen and goats. (Selah.)

  • Isa 50:5
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    5 And I have not put myself against him, or let my heart be turned back from him.

  • Jer 7:21-22
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    21 These are the words of the Lord of armies, the God of Israel: Put your burned offerings with your offerings of beasts, and take flesh for your food.

    22 For I said nothing to your fathers, and gave them no orders, on the day when I took them out of Egypt, about burned offerings or offerings of beasts:

  • Mic 6:6-7
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    6 With what am I to come before the Lord and go with bent head before the high God? am I to come before him with burned offerings, with young oxen a year old?

    7 Will the Lord be pleased with thousands of sheep or with ten thousand rivers of oil? am I to give my first child for my wrongdoing, the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul?

  • 1 Sam 15:22
    72%

    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.

  • Mal 1:10
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    10 If only there was one among you who would see that the doors were shut, so that you might not put a light to the fire on my altar for nothing! I have no pleasure in you, says the Lord of armies, and I will not take an offering from your hands.

  • Isa 42:20
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    20 Seeing much, but keeping nothing in mind; his ears are open, but there is no hearing.

  • Ps 69:31
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    31 This will be more pleasing to the Lord than an ox, or a young ox of full growth.

  • 1 Sam 2:29
    70%

    29 Why then are you looking with envy on my offerings of meat and of meal which were ordered by my word, honouring your sons before me, and making yourselves fat with all the best of the offerings of Israel, my people?

  • Ps 54:6
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    6 Freely will I make my offerings to you; I will give praise to your name, O Lord, for it is good.

  • Amos 5:25
    70%

    25 Did you come to me with offerings of beasts and meal offerings in the waste land for forty years, O Israel?

  • Num 29:36
    70%

    36 And give a burned offering, an offering made by fire of a sweet smell to the Lord: one ox, one male sheep, seven he-lambs of the first year, without any mark:

  • Num 15:3
    69%

    3 And are going to make an offering by fire to the Lord, a burned offering or an offering in connection with an oath, or an offering freely given, or at your regular feasts, an offering for a sweet smell to the Lord, from the herd or the flock:

  • Mal 1:8
    69%

    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.

  • Lev 22:29
    69%

    29 And when you make an offering of praise to the Lord, make it in a way which is pleasing to him.

  • Ps 17:6
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    6 My cry has gone up to you, for you will give me an answer, O God: let your ear be turned to me, and give attention to my words.

  • Lev 19:5
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    5 And when you give a peace offering to the Lord, do it in the way which is pleasing to the Lord.

  • Num 29:6
    69%

    6 In addition to the burned offering of the new moon, and its meal offering, and the regular burned offering and its meal offering, and their drink offerings, as they are ordered, for a sweet smell, an offering made by fire to the Lord.

  • Mal 1:13
    69%

    13 And you say, See, what a weariness it is! and you let out your breath at it, says the Lord of armies; and you have given what has been cut about by beasts, and what is damaged in its feet and ill; this is the offering you give: will this be pleasing to me from your hands? says the Lord.

  • Exod 29:18
    69%

    18 And let them all be burned on the altar as a burned offering to the Lord: a sweet smell, an offering made by fire to the Lord.

  • Num 15:8
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    8 And when you make ready a young ox for a burned or other offering, or for the effecting of an oath, or for peace-offerings to the Lord:

  • Num 29:39
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    39 These are the offerings which you are to give to the Lord at your regular feasts, in addition to the offerings for an oath, and the free offerings you give, for your burned offerings and your drink offerings and your peace-offerings.

  • Lev 22:23
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    23 An ox or a lamb which has more or less than its natural parts, may be given as a free offering; but it will not be taken in payment of an oath.

  • Isa 66:3
    69%

    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;

  • Ps 140:6
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    6 I have said to the Lord, You are my God: give ear, O Lord, to the voice of my prayer.