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64 Bible Verses about Bad Offering
When you choose to live without God, it's easy to lose that awareness of Him and start making choices that aren't aligned with His ways. Maybe you haven't truly encountered Him yet. Our hearts can be so deceitful, always looking for ways to satisfy our own twisted desires, driven by that inner restlessness.
The only way to live a righteous life is to keep God's word close to your heart and follow His will. That's how genuine goodness grows from deep within.
God isn't pleased when offerings are misused. They should be used to grow His work and spread the Gospel to everyone, fulfilling the command He gave us. Prayer is key to making sure your offerings are used the right way and that you're following God's leading.
And you say, ‘If anyone swears by the altar, it means nothing; but if anyone swears by the gift on it, he is bound by his oath.’You blind men! Which is greater: the gift, or the altar that makes it sacred?
You must not follow the statutes of the nations I am driving out before you. Because they did all these things, I abhorred them.But I have told you that you will inherit their land, since I will give it to you as an inheritance—a land flowing with milk and honey. I am the Lord your God, who has set you apart from the peoples.You are therefore to distinguish between clean and unclean animals and birds. Do not become contaminated by any animal or bird, or by anything that crawls on the ground; I have set these apart as unclean for you.
You shall not sacrifice to the Lord your God an ox or a sheep with any defect or serious flaw, for that is detestable to the Lord your God.
Each one should give what he has decided in his heart to give, not out of regret or compulsion. For God loves a cheerful giver.
Will a man rob God? Yet you are robbing Me! But you ask, ‘How do we rob You?’ In tithes and offerings.
So if you are offering your gift at the altar and there remember that your brother has something against you,leave your gift there before the altar. First go and be reconciled to your brother; then come and offer your gift.
For they all contributed out of their surplus, but she out of her poverty has put in all she had to live on.”
while Abel brought the best portions of the firstborn of his flock. And the Lord looked with favor on Abel and his offering,but He had no regard for Cain and his offering. So Cain became very angry, and his countenance fell.
“A son honors his father, and a servant his master. But if I am a father, where is My honor? And if I am a master, where is your fear of Me?” says the Lord of Hosts to you priests who despise My name. “But you ask, ‘How have we despised Your name?’By presenting defiled food on My altar. But you ask, ‘How have we defiled You ?’ By saying that the table of the Lord is contemptible.When you offer blind animals for sacrifice, is it not wrong? And when you present the lame and sick ones, is it not wrong? Try offering them to your governor! Would he be pleased with you or show you favor?” asks the Lord of Hosts.
must offer an unblemished male from the cattle, sheep, or goats in order for it to be accepted on your behalf.“Tell Aaron and his sons to treat with respect the sacred offerings that the Israelites have consecrated to Me, so that they do not profane My holy name. I am the Lord.You must not present anything with a defect, because it will not be accepted on your behalf.
So in the course of time, Cain brought some of the fruit of the soil as an offering to the Lord,while Abel brought the best portions of the firstborn of his flock. And the Lord looked with favor on Abel and his offering,but He had no regard for Cain and his offering. So Cain became very angry, and his countenance fell.
But if an animal has a defect, is lame or blind, or has any serious flaw, you must not sacrifice it to the Lord your God.
You must not present anything with a defect, because it will not be accepted on your behalf.When a man presents a peace offering to the Lord from the herd or flock to fulfill a vow or as a freewill offering, it must be without blemish or defect to be acceptable.You are not to present to the Lord any animal that is blind, injured, or maimed, or anything with a running sore, a festering rash, or a scab; you must not put any of these on the altar as an offering made by fire to the Lord.
When you offer blind animals for sacrifice, is it not wrong? And when you present the lame and sick ones, is it not wrong? Try offering them to your governor! Would he be pleased with you or show you favor?” asks the Lord of Hosts.
By presenting defiled food on My altar. But you ask, ‘How have we defiled You ?’ By saying that the table of the Lord is contemptible.
When you sacrifice a peace offering to the Lord, you shall offer it for your acceptance.
You also say: ‘Oh, what a nuisance!’ And you turn up your nose at it,” says the Lord of Hosts. “You bring offerings that are stolen, lame, or sick! Should I accept these from your hands?” asks the Lord.“But cursed is the deceiver who has an acceptable male in his flock and vows to give it, but sacrifices a defective animal to the Lord. For I am a great King,” says the Lord of Hosts, “and My name is to be feared among the nations.
But Samuel declared: “Does the Lord delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices as much as in obedience to His voice? Behold, obedience is better than sacrifice, and attentiveness is better than the fat of rams.
The sacrifice of the wicked is detestable— how much more so when brought with ill intent!
Your lamb must be an unblemished year-old male, and you may take it from the sheep or the goats.
Offer them with their drink offerings in addition to the regular burnt offering and its grain offering. The animals must be unblemished.
“What good to Me is your multitude of sacrifices?” says the Lord. “I am full from the burnt offerings of rams and the fat of well-fed cattle; I take no delight in the blood of bulls and lambs and goats.When you come to appear before Me, who has required this of you— this trampling of My courts?Bring your worthless offerings no more; your incense is detestable to Me— your New Moons, Sabbaths, and convocations. I cannot endure iniquity in a solemn assembly.
Then Jesus looked up and saw the rich putting their gifts into the treasury,Then He told them, “Nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom.There will be great earthquakes, famines, and pestilences in various places, along with fearful sights and great signs from heaven.But before all this, they will seize you and persecute you. On account of My name they will deliver you to the synagogues and prisons, and they will bring you before kings and governors.This will be your opportunity to serve as witnesses.So make up your mind not to worry beforehand how to defend yourselves.For I will give you speech and wisdom that none of your adversaries will be able to resist or contradict.You will be betrayed even by parents and brothers and relatives and friends, and some of you will be put to death.And you will be hated by everyone because of My name.Yet not even a hair of your head will perish.By your patient endurance you will gain your souls.and He saw a poor widow put in two small copper coins. But when you see Jerusalem surrounded by armies, you will know that her desolation is near.Then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains, let those in the city get out, and let those in the country stay out of the city.For these are the days of vengeance, to fulfill all that is written.How miserable those days will be for pregnant and nursing mothers! For there will be great distress upon the land and wrath against this people.They will fall by the edge of the sword and be led captive into all the nations. And Jerusalem will be trodden down by the Gentiles, until the times of the Gentiles are fulfilled.There will be signs in the sun and moon and stars, and on the earth dismay among the nations, bewildered by the roaring of the sea and the surging of the waves.Men will faint from fear and anxiety over what is coming upon the earth, for the powers of the heavens will be shaken.At that time they will see the Son of Man coming in a cloud with power and great glory.When these things begin to happen, stand up and lift up your heads, because your redemption is drawing near.”Then Jesus told them a parable: “Look at the fig tree and all the trees.“Truly I tell you,” He said, “this poor widow has put in more than all the others.When they sprout leaves, you can see for yourselves and know that summer is near.So also, when you see these things happening, know that the kingdom of God is near.Truly I tell you, this generation will not pass away until all these things have happened.Heaven and earth will pass away, but My words will never pass away.But watch yourselves, or your hearts will be weighed down by dissipation, drunkenness, and the worries of life—and that day will spring upon you suddenly like a snare.For it will come upon all who dwell on the face of all the earth.So keep watch at all times, and pray that you may have the strength to escape all that is about to happen and to stand before the Son of Man.”Every day Jesus taught at the temple, but every evening He went out to spend the night on the Mount of Olives.And early in the morning all the people would come to hear Him at the temple.For they all contributed out of their surplus, but she out of her poverty has put in all she had to live on.”
Therefore the Lord said: “These people draw near to Me with their mouths and honor Me with their lips, but their hearts are far from Me. Their worship of Me is but rules taught by men.
What use to Me is frankincense from Sheba or sweet cane from a distant land? Your burnt offerings are not acceptable; your sacrifices do not please Me.”
‘These people honor Me with their lips, but their hearts are far from Me.They worship Me in vain; they teach as doctrine the precepts of men.’”
And do not neglect to do good and to share with others, for with such sacrifices God is pleased.
“I hate, I despise your feasts! I cannot stand the stench of your solemn assemblies.Even though you offer Me burnt offerings and grain offerings, I will not accept them; for your peace offerings of fattened cattle I will have no regard.Take away from Me the noise of your songs! I will not listen to the music of your harps.
The sacrifice of the wicked is detestable to the Lord, but the prayer of the upright is His delight.
With what shall I come before the Lord when I bow before the God on high? Should I come to Him with burnt offerings, with year-old calves?Would the Lord be pleased with thousands of rams, with ten thousand rivers of oil? Shall I present my firstborn for my transgression, the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul?He has shown you, O man, what is good. And what does the Lord require of you but to act justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God?
“Be careful not to perform your righteous acts before men to be seen by them. If you do, you will have no reward from your Father in heaven. Your kingdom come, Your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven.Give us this day our daily bread.And forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors.And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one.’ For if you forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you.But if you do not forgive men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive yours.When you fast, do not be somber like the hypocrites, for they disfigure their faces to show men they are fasting. Truly I tell you, they already have their full reward.But when you fast, anoint your head and wash your face,so that your fasting will not be obvious to men, but only to your Father, who is unseen. And your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you.Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy, and where thieves break in and steal.So when you give to the needy, do not sound a trumpet before you, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and on the streets, to be honored by men. Truly I tell you, they already have their full reward.But store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where moth and rust do not destroy, and where thieves do not break in and steal.For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.The eye is the lamp of the body. If your eyes are good, your whole body will be full of light.But if your eyes are bad, your whole body will be full of darkness. If then the light within you is darkness, how great is that darkness! No one can serve two masters: Either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and money.Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothes?Look at the birds of the air: They do not sow or reap or gather into barns—and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they?Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life? And why do you worry about clothes? Consider how the lilies of the field grow: They do not labor or spin.Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his glory was adorned like one of these.But when you give to the needy, do not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing,If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the furnace, will He not much more clothe you, O you of little faith?Therefore do not worry, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’For the Gentiles strive after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them.But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things will be added unto you. Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Today has enough trouble of its own.so that your giving may be in secret. And your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you.
For You do not delight in sacrifice, or I would bring it; You take no pleasure in burnt offerings.The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit; a broken and a contrite heart, O God, You will not despise.
Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You pay tithes of mint, dill, and cumin. But you have disregarded the weightier matters of the law: justice, mercy, and faithfulness. You should have practiced the latter, without neglecting the former.
Take from among you an offering to the Lord. Let everyone whose heart is willing bring an offering to the Lord: gold, silver, and bronze;
As Jesus was sitting opposite the treasury, He watched the crowd putting money into it. And many rich people put in large amounts.Then one poor widow came and put in two small copper coins, which amounted to a small fraction of a denarius. Jesus called His disciples to Him and said, “Truly I tell you, this poor widow has put more than all the others into the treasury.For they all contributed out of their surplus, but she out of her poverty has put in all she had to live on.”
you also, like living stones, are being built into a spiritual house to be a holy priesthood, offering spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.
Vindicate me, O Lord! For I have walked with integrity; I have trusted in the Lord without wavering.in whose hands are wicked schemes, whose right hands are full of bribes.But I will walk with integrity; redeem me and be merciful to me.My feet stand on level ground; in the congregations I will bless the Lord.Test me, O Lord, and try me; examine my heart and mind.
If I give all I possess to the poor and exult in the surrender of my body, but have not love, I gain nothing.
Therefore I urge you, brothers, on account of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as living sacrifices, holy and pleasing to God, which is your spiritual service of worship.
“But cursed is the deceiver who has an acceptable male in his flock and vows to give it, but sacrifices a defective animal to the Lord. For I am a great King,” says the Lord of Hosts, “and My name is to be feared among the nations.
Do not be deceived: God is not to be mocked. Whatever a man sows, he will reap in return.The one who sows to please his flesh, from the flesh will reap destruction; but the one who sows to please the Spirit, from the Spirit will reap eternal life.
And when you do ask, you do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, that you may squander it on your pleasures.
For the love of money is the root of all kinds of evil. By craving it, some have wandered away from the faith and pierced themselves with many sorrows.
For the flesh craves what is contrary to the Spirit, and the Spirit what is contrary to the flesh. They are opposed to each other, so that you do not do what you want.
Guard your steps when you go to the house of God. Draw near to listen rather than to offer the sacrifice of fools, who do not know that they do wrong.He who loves money is never satisfied by money, and he who loves wealth is never satisfied by income. This too is futile.When good things increase, so do those who consume them; what then is the profit to the owner, except to behold them with his eyes?The sleep of the worker is sweet, whether he eats little or much, but the abundance of the rich man permits him no sleep.There is a grievous evil I have seen under the sun: wealth hoarded to the harm of its owner,or wealth lost in a failed venture, so when that man has a son there is nothing to pass on.As a man came from his mother’s womb, so he will depart again, naked as he arrived. He takes nothing for his labor to carry in his hands.This too is a grievous evil: Exactly as a man is born, so he will depart. What does he gain as he toils for the wind?Moreover, all his days he eats in darkness, with much sorrow, sickness, and anger.Here is what I have seen to be good and fitting: to eat and drink, and to find satisfaction in all the labor one does under the sun during the few days of life that God has given him—for this is his lot.Furthermore, God has given riches and wealth to every man, and He has enabled him to enjoy them, to accept his lot, and to rejoice in his labor. This is a gift from God.Do not be quick to speak, and do not be hasty in your heart to utter a word before God. After all, God is in heaven and you are on earth. So let your words be few.
Who may ascend the hill of the Lord? Who may stand in His holy place?He who has clean hands and a pure heart, who does not lift up his soul to an idol or swear deceitfully.
if it is encouraging, let him encourage; if it is giving, let him give generously; if it is leading, let him lead with diligence; if it is showing mercy, let him do it cheerfully.
For if the eagerness is there, the gift is acceptable according to what one has, not according to what he does not have.It is not our intention that others may be relieved while you are burdened, but that there may be equality.At the present time, your surplus will meet their need, so that in turn their surplus will meet your need. Then there will be equality.As it is written: “He who gathered much had no excess, and he who gathered little had no shortfall.”
Now a man named Ananias, together with his wife Sapphira, also sold a piece of property.At that instant she fell down at his feet and died. Then the young men came in and, finding her dead, carried her out and buried her beside her husband.And great fear came over the whole church and all who heard about these events.The apostles performed many signs and wonders among the people, and with one accord the believers gathered together in Solomon’s Colonnade.Although the people regarded them highly, no one else dared to join them.Yet more and more believers were brought to the Lord—large numbers of both men and women.As a result, people brought the sick into the streets and laid them on cots and mats, so that at least Peter’s shadow might fall on some of them as he passed by.Crowds also gathered from the towns around Jerusalem, bringing the sick and those tormented by unclean spirits, and all of them were healed.Then the high priest and all his associates, who belonged to the party of the Sadducees, were filled with jealousy. They went outand arrested the apostles and put them in the public jail.But during the night an angel of the Lord opened the doors of the jail and brought them out, saying,With his wife’s full knowledge, he kept back some of the proceeds for himself, but brought a portion and laid it at the apostles’ feet.“Go, stand in the temple courts and tell the people the full message of this new life.” At daybreak the apostles entered the temple courts as they had been told and began to teach the people. When the high priest and his associates arrived, they convened the Sanhedrin—the full assembly of the elders of Israel—and sent to the jail for the apostles.But on arriving at the jail, the officers did not find them there. So they returned with the report:“We found the jail securely locked, with the guards posted at the doors; but when we opened them, we found no one inside.”When the captain of the temple guard and the chief priests heard this account, they were perplexed as to what was happening.Then someone came in and announced, “Look, the men you put in jail are standing in the temple courts teaching the people!”At that point, the captain went with the officers and brought the apostles—but not by force, for fear the people would stone them.They brought them in and made them stand before the Sanhedrin, where the high priest interrogated them.“We gave you strict orders not to teach in this name,” he said. “Yet you have filled Jerusalem with your teaching and are determined to make us responsible for this man’s blood.”But Peter and the other apostles replied, “We must obey God rather than men.Then Peter said, “Ananias, how is it that Satan has filled your heart to lie to the Holy Spirit and withhold some of the proceeds from the land?The God of our fathers raised up Jesus, whom you had killed by hanging Him on a tree.God exalted Him to His right hand as Prince and Savior, in order to grant repentance and forgiveness of sins to Israel.We are witnesses of these things, and so is the Holy Spirit, whom God has given to those who obey Him.”When the Council members heard this, they were enraged, and they resolved to put the apostles to death.But a Pharisee named Gamaliel, a teacher of the law who was honored by all the people, stood up in the Sanhedrin and ordered that the men be put outside for a short time.“Men of Israel,” he said, “consider carefully what you are about to do to these men.Some time ago Theudas rose up, claiming to be somebody, and about four hundred men joined him. He was killed, all his followers were dispersed, and it all came to nothing.After him, Judas the Galilean appeared in the days of the census and drew away people after him. He too perished, and all his followers were scattered.So in the present case I advise you: Leave these men alone. Let them go! For if their purpose or endeavor is of human origin, it will fail.But if it is from God, you will not be able to stop them. You may even find yourselves fighting against God.”Did it not belong to you before it was sold? And after it was sold, was it not at your disposal? How could you conceive such a deed in your heart? You have not lied to men, but to God!”
Not everyone who says to Me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only he who does the will of My Father in heaven.
And He said to them, “Watch out! Guard yourselves against every form of greed, for one’s life does not consist in the abundance of his possessions.”
By faith Abel offered God a better sacrifice than Cain did. By faith he was commended as righteous when God gave approval to his gifts. And by faith he still speaks, even though he is dead.
On the first day of every week, each of you should set aside a portion of his income, saving it up, so that when I come no collections will be needed.
All who rely on works of the law are under a curse. For it is written: “Cursed is everyone who does not continue to do everything written in the Book of the Law.”
Turn my heart to Your testimonies and not to covetous gain.Turn my eyes away from worthless things; revive me with Your word.
Jesus told him, “If you want to be perfect, go, sell your possessions and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven. Then come, follow Me.”
Instruct those who are rich in the present age not to be conceited and not to put their hope in the uncertainty of wealth, but in God, who richly provides all things for us to enjoy.Instruct them to do good, to be rich in good works, and to be generous and ready to share,treasuring up for themselves a firm foundation for the future, so that they may take hold of that which is truly life.