Verse 16

Certainly you do not want a sacrifice, or else I would offer it; you do not desire a burnt sacrifice.

Referenced Verses

  • Ps 40:6 : 6 Receiving sacrifices and offerings are not your primary concern. You make that quite clear to me! You do not ask for burnt sacrifices and sin offerings.
  • Amos 5:21-23 : 21 “I absolutely despise your festivals! I get no pleasure from your religious assemblies! 22 Even if you offer me burnt and grain offerings, I will not be satisfied; I will not look with favor on your peace offerings of fattened calves. 23 Take away from me your noisy songs; I don’t want to hear the music of your stringed instruments.
  • Heb 10:5-6 : 5 So when he came into the world, he said,“Sacrifice and offering you did not desire, but a body you prepared for me. 6 “Whole burnt offerings and sin-offerings you took no delight in.
  • 1 Sam 15:22 : 22 Then Samuel said,“Does the LORD take pleasure in burnt offerings and sacrifices as much as he does in obedience? Certainly, obedience is better than sacrifice; paying attention is better than the fat of rams.
  • Exod 21:14 : 14 But if a man willfully attacks his neighbor to kill him cunningly, you will take him even from my altar that he may die.
  • Num 15:27 : 27 “‘If any person sins unintentionally, then he must bring a yearling female goat for a purification offering.
  • Num 15:30-31 : 30 Deliberate Sin“‘But the person who acts defiantly, whether native-born or a resident foreigner, insults the LORD. That person must be cut off from among his people. 31 Because he has despised the LORD’s message and has broken his commandment, that person must be completely cut off. His iniquity will be on him.’”
  • Num 35:31 : 31 Moreover, you must not accept a ransom for the life of a murderer who is guilty of death; he must surely be put to death.
  • Ps 50:8 : 8 I am not condemning you because of your sacrifices, or because of your burnt sacrifices that you continually offer me.
  • Ps 51:6 : 6 Look, you desire integrity in the inner man; you want me to possess wisdom.
  • Prov 15:8 : 8 The LORD abhors the sacrifice of the wicked, but the prayer of the upright pleases him.
  • Prov 21:27 : 27 The wicked person’s sacrifice is an abomination; how much more when he brings it with evil intent!
  • Isa 1:11-15 : 11 “Of what importance to me are your many sacrifices?” says the LORD.“I have had my fill of burnt sacrifices of rams and the fat from steers. The blood of bulls, lambs, and goats I do not want. 12 When you enter my presence, do you actually think I want this– animals trampling on my courtyards? 13 Do not bring any more meaningless offerings; I consider your incense detestable! You observe new moon festivals, Sabbaths, and convocations, but I cannot tolerate sin-stained celebrations! 14 I hate your new moon festivals and assemblies; they are a burden that I am tired of carrying. 15 When you spread out your hands in prayer, I look the other way; when you offer your many prayers, I do not listen, because your hands are covered with blood.
  • Jer 7:22-23 : 22 Consider this: When I spoke to your ancestors after I brought them out of Egypt, I did not merely give them commands about burnt offerings and sacrifices. 23 I also explicitly commanded them:“Obey me. If you do, I will be your God and you will be my people. Live exactly the way I tell you and things will go well with you.”
  • Jer 7:27 : 27 Then the LORD said to me,“When you tell them all this, they will not listen to you. When you call out to them, they will not respond to you.
  • Hos 6:6 : 6 For I delight in faithfulness, not simply in sacrifice; I delight in acknowledging God, not simply in whole burnt offerings.
  • Deut 22:22 : 22 If a man is discovered in bed with a married woman both the man lying in bed with the woman and the woman herself must die; in this way you will purge evil from Israel.