Sacrifice

Therefore I urge you, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service.

Walk in love, even as Christ also loved you, and gave himself up for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet-smelling fragrance.

To do righteousness and justice is more acceptable to Yahweh than sacrifice.

But don’t forget to be doing good and sharing, for with such sacrifices God is well pleased.

But you go and learn what this means: ‘I desire mercy, and not sacrifice,’for I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.”

Therefore I urge you, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service. — read the full passage →

Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.

so Christ also, having been offered once to bear the sins of many, will appear a second time, without sin, to those who are eagerly waiting for him for salvation.

The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit. A broken and contrite heart, O God, you will not despise.

For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.

Neither present your members to sin as instruments of unrighteousness, but present yourselves to God, as alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness to God.

For the Son of Man also came not to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.”

Through him, then, let us offer up a sacrifice of praise to God continually, that is, the fruit of lips which proclaim allegiance to his name.

But God commends his own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.

For I desire mercy, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings.

who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify for himself a people for his own possession, zealous for good works.

For whoever desires to save his life will lose it, but whoever will lose his life for my sake, the same will save it.

how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without defect to God, cleanse your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?

And he is the atoning sacrifice for our sins, and not for ours only, but also for the whole world.

But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus Christ, his Son, cleanses us from all sin.

Jesus, crying with a loud voice, said, “Father, into your hands I commit my spirit!” Having said this, he breathed his last.

even as the Son of Man came not to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.”

He who didn’t spare his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how would he not also with him freely give us all things?

For I delivered to you first of all that which I also received: that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, — read the full passage →

“Behold, we are going up to Jerusalem, and the Son of Man will be delivered to the chief priests and scribes, and they will condemn him to death, — read the full passage →

Samuel said, “Has Yahweh as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices, as in obeying the voice of Yahweh? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to listen than the fat of rams.

You also, as living stones, are built up as a spiritual house, to be a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.

But I will sacrifice to you with the voice of thanksgiving. I will pay that which I have vowed. Salvation belongs to Yahweh.”

For while we were yet weak, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly.

In this is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son as the atoning sacrifice for our sins.

They stripped him, and put a scarlet robe on him. — read the full passage →

Honor Yahweh with your substance, with the first fruits of all your increase:

He said, “Now take your son, your only son, whom you love, even Isaac, and go into the land of Moriah. Offer him there for a burnt offering on one of the mountains which I will tell you of.”

He said, “Abba, Father, all things are possible to you. Please remove this cup from me. However, not what I desire, but what you desire.”

Through him, then, let us offer up a sacrifice of praise to God continually, that is, the fruit of lips which proclaim allegiance to his name. — read the full passage →

The Lord is not slow concerning his promise, as some count slowness; but is patient with us, not wishing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.

Yes, and if I am poured out on the sacrifice and service of your faith, I rejoice, and rejoice with you all.

For you don’t delight in sacrifice, or else I would give it. You have no pleasure in burnt offering. — read the full passage →

whom God sent to be an atoning sacrifice, through faith in his blood, for a demonstration of his righteousness through the passing over of prior sins, in God’s forbearance;

by which will we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.

For by one offering he has perfected forever those who are being sanctified.

each of you not just looking to his own things, but each of you also to the things of others.

I have been crucified with Christ, and it is no longer I that live, but Christ living in me. That life which I now live in the flesh, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself up for me.

Sacrifice and offering you didn’t desire. You have opened my ears. You have not required burnt offering and sin offering.

Being therefore justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ; — read the full passage →

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. — read the full passage →

For the life of the flesh is in the blood; and I have given it to you on the altar to make atonement for your souls: for it is the blood that makes atonement by reason of the life.

“For the Kingdom of Heaven is like a man who was the master of a household, who went out early in the morning to hire laborers for his vineyard. — read the full passage →

“This is my commandment, that you love one another, even as I have loved you. — read the full passage →

He called the twelve together, and gave them power and authority over all demons, and to cure diseases. — read the full passage →

The king’s heart is in Yahweh’s hand like the watercourses. He turns it wherever he desires. — read the full passage →

Therefore when he comes into the world, he says, “Sacrifice and offering you didn’t desire, but you prepared a body for me;

and to love him with all the heart, and with all the understanding, with all the soul, and with all the strength, and to love his neighbor as himself, is more important than all whole burnt offerings and sacrifices.”

Be therefore imitators of God, as beloved children. — read the full passage →

Therefore I urge you, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service. — read the full passage →

coming to him, a living stone, rejected indeed by men, but chosen by God, precious. — read the full passage →

Previously saying, “Sacrifices and offerings and whole burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin you didn’t desire, neither had pleasure in them” (those which are offered according to the law),

Purge out the old yeast, that you may be a new lump, even as you are unleavened. For indeed Christ, our Passover, has been sacrificed in our place.

For him who knew no sin he made to be sin on our behalf; so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.

For a tabernacle was prepared. In the first part were the lamp stand, the table, and the show bread; which is called the Holy Place.

Now where remission of these is, there is no more offering for sin.

The next day, he saw Jesus coming to him, and said, “Behold, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world!

Every branch in me that doesn’t bear fruit, he takes away. Every branch that bears fruit, he prunes, that it may bear more fruit.

For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life. — read the full passage →

But I have all things, and abound. I am filled, having received from Epaphroditus the things that came from you, a sweet-smelling fragrance, an acceptable and well-pleasing sacrifice to God.

The king said to Araunah, “No; but I will most certainly buy it from you for a price. I will not offer burnt offerings to Yahweh my God which cost me nothing.” So David bought the threshing floor and the oxen for fifty shekels of silver.

But if you had known what this means, ‘I desire mercy, and not sacrifice,’you would not have condemned the guiltless.

but he, when he had offered one sacrifice for sins forever, sat down on the right hand of God;

The Word became flesh, and lived among us. We saw his glory, such glory as of the one and only Son of the Father, full of grace and truth.

But I say that the things which the Gentiles sacrifice, they sacrifice to demons, and not to God, and I don’t desire that you would have fellowship with demons.

By this we know love, because he laid down his life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers.

For the law, having a shadow of the good to come, not the very image of the things, can never with the same sacrifices year by year, which they offer continually, make perfect those who draw near.

For the law, having a shadow of the good to come, not the very image of the things, can never with the same sacrifices year by year, which they offer continually, make perfect those who draw near. — read the full passage →

Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father, except through me.

This is the Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things which must happen soon, which he sent and made known by his angel to his servant, John,

that older men should be temperate, sensible, sober minded, sound in faith, in love, and in patience:

He said, “I called because of my affliction to Yahweh. He answered me. Out of the belly of Sheol I cried. You heard my voice.

for length of days, and years of life, and peace, will they add to you.

For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments. His commandments are not grievous.

He said to all, “If anyone desires to come after me, let him deny himself, take up his cross,and follow me.

He entered into a boat, and crossed over, and came into his own city. — read the full passage →

But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession, that you may proclaim the excellence of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light:

nor yet through the blood of goats and calves, but through his own blood, entered in once for all into the Holy Place, having obtained eternal redemption.

He said to them, “I have earnestly desired to eat this Passover with you before I suffer,

Have this in your mind, which was also in Christ Jesus, — read the full passage →

Pharisees came to him testing him, and asked him, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife?”

You shall make an altar of earth for me, and shall sacrifice on it your burnt offerings and your peace offerings, your sheep and your cattle. In every place where I record my name I will come to you and I will bless you.

By faith, Abraham, being tested, offered up Isaac. Yes, he who had gladly received the promises was offering up his one and only son;

For if we sin willfully after we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remains no more a sacrifice for sins,

So then as through one trespass, all men were condemned; even so through one act of righteousness, all men were justified to life.

who his own self bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we, having died to sins, might live to righteousness; by whose stripes you were healed.

He who doesn’t take his cross and follow after me, isn’t worthy of me.

We were buried therefore with him through baptism to death, that just like Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we also might walk in newness of life.

My little children, I write these things to you so that you may not sin. If anyone sins, we have a Counselor with the Father, Jesus Christ, the righteous. — read the full passage →

For I received from the Lord that which also I delivered to you, that the Lord Jesus on the night in which he was betrayed took bread. — read the full passage →

He cried against the altar by Yahweh’s word, and said, “Altar, altar, thus says Yahweh: ‘Behold, a son shall be born to the house of David, Josiah by name. On you he shall sacrifice the priests of the high places who burn incense on you, and they will burn men’s bones on you.’”

For you both had compassion on me in my chains, and joyfully accepted the plundering of your possessions, knowing that you have for yourselves a better possession and an enduring one in the heavens.

“Sanctify to me all of the firstborn, whatever opens the womb among the children of Israel, both of man and of animal. It is mine.”

Every priest indeed stands day by day serving and often offering the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins,

Noah built an altar to Yahweh, and took of every clean animal, and of every clean bird, and offered burnt offerings on the altar. — read the full passage →