Proverbs 15:8

Coverdale Bible (1535)

The LORDE abhorreth ye sacrifice of the vngodly, but the prayer of the rightuous is acceptable vnto him.

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Referenced Verses

  • Prov 15:29 : 29 The LORDE is farre from the vngodly, but he heareth ye prayer of the rightuous.
  • Prov 21:27 : 27 The sacrifice of the vngodly is abhominacion, for they offre the thinge yt is gotten wt wickednes.
  • 1 Chr 29:17 : 17 I knowe my God, that thou tryest the hert, and that vnfaynednes is acceptable vnto the: therfore haue I geue all this with an vnfayned hert, eue with a good wyll, and now haue I had ioye to se thy people (which here are present) offre with a fre wyll vnto the.
  • Jer 6:20 : 20 Wherfore bringe ye me incense from Saba, & swete smellinge Calamus from farre countrees? Youre burnt offeringes displease me, and I reioyse not in youre sacrifices.
  • Isa 1:10-15 : 10 Heare the worde of the LORDE ye tyrauntes of Sodoma: and herken vnto the lawe of oure God, thou people of Gomorra. 11 Why offre ye so many sacrifices vnto me? I am discontent for the brentoffringes of wethers, and with ye fatnesse offedbeastes. I haue no pleasure in the bloude of bullockes, lambes and gootes. 12 When ye apeare before me, who requyreth you to treade within my porches? 13 Offre me no mo oblacions, for it is but lost laboure. I abhorre youre incense. I maye not awaye with youre newmoones, youre Sabbathes and solempne dayes. Youre fastinges are also in vayne. 14 I hate youre new holy dayes and fastinges, euen fro my very harte. They make me weery, I can not abyde them. 15 Though ye holde out yor hondes, yet turne I myne eyes from you. And though ye make many prayers, yet heare I nothinge at all, for youre hondes are full of bloude.
  • Isa 61:8 : 8 For I the LORDE, which loue right ad hate robbery (though it were offred me) shal make their workes ful of faithfulnes, & make an euerlastinge couenaunt with them.
  • Prov 28:9 : 9 He that turneth awaye his eare from hearinge ye lawe, his prayer shalbe abhorred.
  • Jer 7:21-23 : 21 Thus saieth the LORDE of hoostes, the God of Israel: Ye heape vp youre burntoffringes with youre sacrifices, & eate ye flesh. 22 But when I brought youre fathers out of Egipte, I spake no worde vnto them of burntoffringes and sacrifices: 23 but this I commaunded them, sayenge: herken and obeye my voyce, and I shalbe youre God and ye shal be my people: so that ye walke in all the wayes, which I haue comaunded you, that ye maye prospere.
  • John 4:24 : 24 God is a sprete, and they that worshippe him, must worshippe in sprete and in the trueth.
  • Eccl 5:1 : 1 Whan thou commest in to the house of God, kepe thy fote, and drawe nye, that thou mayest heare: that is better then the offeringes of fooles, for they knowe not what euell they do.
  • Isa 66:3 : 3 For who so slayeth an oxe for me, doth me so greate dishonoure, as he yt kylleth a ma. He that kylleth a shepe for me, choketh a dogge. He that bringeth me meatoffringes, offreth swynes bloude: Who so maketh me a memoriall of Incense, prayseth the thinge yt is vnright. Yet take they soch wayes in honde, and their soule deliteth in these abhominacions.
  • Ps 17:1 : 1 Heare ye right (O LORDE) cosidre my coplaynte: herken vnto my prayer, that goeth not out of a fayned mouth.
  • Song 2:14 : 14 (my doue) out of the caues of the rockes, out of the holes of the wall: O let me se thy countenaunce and heare thy voyce, for swete is thy voyce and fayre is thy face.
  • Amos 5:21-22 : 21 I hate and abhorre youre holy dayes, ad where as ye cense me when ye come together I will not accepte it. 22 And though ye offre me brentofferinges and meatofferinges, yet haue I no pleasure therin: As for youre fat thankofferynges, I wil not loke vpon them.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Prov 15:9
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    9 The waye of the vngodly is an abhominacio vnto ye LORDE, but who so foloweth righteousnes, him he loueth.

  • Prov 21:27
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    27 The sacrifice of the vngodly is abhominacion, for they offre the thinge yt is gotten wt wickednes.

  • Prov 11:20
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    20 The LORDE abhorreth a fayned hert, but he hath pleasure in them that are vndefyled.

  • Prov 15:28-29
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    28 A rightuous ma museth in his mynde how to do good, but ye mynde of the vngodly ymagineth, how he maye do harme.

    29 The LORDE is farre from the vngodly, but he heareth ye prayer of the rightuous.

  • Prov 29:27
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    27 The rightuous abhorre the vngodly: but as for those that be in ye right waye, ye wicked hate them.

  • Prov 15:26
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    26 The LORDE abhoreth ye ymaginacions of ye wicked, but pure wordes are pleasaunt vnto him.

  • Ps 51:16-17
    2 verses
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    16 For yf thou haddest pleasure in sacrifice, I wolde geue it the: but thou delytest not in burntofferynges.

    17 The sacrifice of God is a troubled sprete, a broken and a cotrite hert (o God) shalt thou not despise.

  • Prov 21:3-4
    2 verses
    72%

    3 To do rightuousnesse and iudgmet is more acceptable to the LORDE the sacrifice.

    4 A presumptuous loke, a proude stomacke, & the lanterne of the vngodly is synne.

  • Prov 3:32
    72%

    32 for the LORDE abhorreth the frowarde, but his secrete is amonge the righteous.

  • Ps 10:3
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    3 For the vngodly maketh boost of his owne hertes desyre, the cuvetous blesseth him self, and blasphemeth the LORDE.

  • Prov 28:9
    71%

    9 He that turneth awaye his eare from hearinge ye lawe, his prayer shalbe abhorred.

  • Prov 11:1
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    1 A false balaunce is an abhominacion vnto the LORDE, but a true weight pleaseth him.

  • Prov 17:15
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    15 The LORDE hateth as well him yt iustifieth ye vngodly, as him yt condempneth the innocet.

  • Prov 16:12
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    12 It is a greate abhominacio when kynges are wycked, for a kynges seate shulde be holden vp wt righteousnesse.

  • Prov 12:22
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    22 The LORDE abhorreth disceatfull lippes, but they that laboure for treuth, please him.

  • Ps 5:4
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    4 For thou art not the God yt hath pleasure in wickednesse, there maye no vngodly personne dwel with the.

  • Ps 11:5
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    5 The LORDE seith both the rightuous and vngodly, but who so deliteth in wickednes, him his soule abhorreth.

  • Prov 21:18
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    18 The vngodly shalbe geuen for the rightuous, & the wicked for the iust.

  • Prov 11:23
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    23 The iust laboure for peace and traquylite, but the vngodly for disquyetnesse.

  • Ps 1:6
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    6 For the LORDE aloweth ye waye of the rightuous, but the waye of the vngodly shal perishe.

  • 1 Pet 3:12
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    12 For ye eyes of the LORDE are ouer the righteous, & his eares are open vnto their prayers. But ye face of the LORDE beholdeth the yt do euell.

  • Deut 25:16
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    16 For who so euer doth soch (yee all they that do euell) are abhominacion vnto the LORDE thy God.

  • Ps 51:19
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    19 For then shalt thou be pleased with the sacrifice of rightuousnesse, with the burntofferynges and oblacions: then shal they laye bullockes vpon thine aulter.

  • Prov 12:6
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    6 The talkynge of the vngodly is, how they maye laye wayte for bloude, but the mouth of ye righteous wil delyuer them.

  • Prov 10:29
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    29 The waye of the LORDE geueth a corage vnto ye godly, but it is a feare for wicked doers.

  • Prov 14:11
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    11 The houses of the vngodly shalbe ouerthrowne, but the tabernacles of ye righteus shal florishe.

  • Isa 66:3
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    3 For who so slayeth an oxe for me, doth me so greate dishonoure, as he yt kylleth a ma. He that kylleth a shepe for me, choketh a dogge. He that bringeth me meatoffringes, offreth swynes bloude: Who so maketh me a memoriall of Incense, prayseth the thinge yt is vnright. Yet take they soch wayes in honde, and their soule deliteth in these abhominacions.

  • Prov 13:5-6
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    5 A righteous man abhorreth lyes, but the vngodly shameth both other and himself.

    6 Righteousnesse kepeth the innocet in the waye, but vngodlynesse shal ouerthrowe the synner.

  • Ps 4:5
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    5 Sela. Offre ye sacrifice of rightuousnes, & put yor trust in ye LORDE.

  • Prov 21:10
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    10 The soule of the vngodly wysheth euell, and hath no pitie vpon his neghboure.

  • Mal 1:8
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    8 Yf ye offre ye blynde, is not yt euell? And yf ye offre the lame and sick, is not that euell? Yee offre it vnto thy prynce, shal he be cotent with the, or accepte thy personne, sayeth the LORDE of hoostes?

  • Deut 17:1
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    1 Thou shalt offre vnto the LORDE thy God no oxe or shepe, that hath a blemish or eny euell fauourednesse on it: for that is abhominacion vnto the LORDE thy God.

  • Prov 6:16
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    16 There be sixe thinges, which the LORDE hateth, & the seuenth he vtterly abhorreth:

  • Prov 16:5
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    5 The LORDE abhorreth all presumptuous & proude hertes, there maye nether strength ner power escape.

  • Prov 8:7
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    7 For my throte shal be talkynge of ye trueth, & my lippes abhorre vngodlynesse.

  • Prov 17:23
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    23 The vngodly taketh giftes out of the bosome, to wraist the wayes of iudgment.

  • Prov 12:2
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    2 A good man is acceptable vnto the LORDE, but ye wicked wyl he condempne.

  • Ps 11:7
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    7 For the LORDE is rightuous, ad he loueth rightuousnes, his countenaunce beholdeth the thige yt is iust.

  • Prov 8:13
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    13 With me is the feare of the LORDE, and ye eschuynge of euell. As for pryde, disdayne, an euell waye, & a mouth that speaketh wicked thiges, I vtterly abhorre the.

  • Prov 14:19
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    19 The euell shal bowe them selues before ye good, and the vngodly shal wayte at the dores of the rightuous.

  • Ps 7:9
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    9 Oh let the wickednes of the vngodly come to an ende: but manteyne the iust,

  • Prov 21:29
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    29 An vngodly man goeth forth rashly, but the iust refourmeth his owne waye.

  • Ps 34:21
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    21 But mi?fortune shal slaye the vngodly, and they that hate ye rightuous shal be giltie.

  • Prov 29:10
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    10 The bloudethyrstie hate the rightuous, but the iust seke his soule.

  • Prov 10:32
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    32 The lippes of the rightuous are occupied in acceptable thinges, but the mouth of the vngodly taketh them to the worst.