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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.
You say, ‘If people swear by the altar, it’s nothing. But if they swear by the gift on the altar, they are obligated to do what they swore.’You blind people! Which is greater, the gift or the altar that makes the gift holy?
You must not follow the practices of the nations that I am throwing out before you, because they did all these things and I was disgusted with them.But I have told you, “You will certainly possess their fertile land; I am giving it to you to possess. It is a land full of milk and honey.” I am the LORD your God, who has separated you from all other peoples.So you must separate between clean and unclean animals, and between clean and unclean birds. Do not become detestable through some animal, bird, or anything that moves on the fertile ground that I have separated from you as unclean.
Don’t sacrifice to the LORD your God any oxen or sheep that have defects of any kind, because that is detestable to the LORD your God.
“Two people went up to the temple to pray. One was a Pharisee and the other a tax collector.The Pharisee stood and prayed about himself with these words, ‘God, I thank you that I’m not like everyone else—crooks, evildoers, adulterers—or even like this tax collector.I fast twice a week. I give a tenth of everything I receive.’But the tax collector stood at a distance. He wouldn’t even lift his eyes to look toward heaven. Rather, he struck his chest and said, ‘God, show mercy to me, a sinner.’I tell you, this person went down to his home justified rather than the Pharisee. All who lift themselves up will be brought low, and those who make themselves low will be lifted up.”Jesus told this parable to certain people who had convinced themselves that they were righteous and who looked on everyone else with disgust:
Everyone should give whatever they have decided in their heart. They shouldn’t give with hesitation or because of pressure. God loves a cheerful giver.
Should a person deceive God? Yet you deceive me. But you say, “How have we deceived you?” With your tenth-part gifts and offerings.
Therefore, if you bring your gift to the altar and there remember that your brother or sister has something against you,leave your gift at the altar and go. First make things right with your brother or sister and then come back and offer your gift.
All of them are giving out of their spare change. But she from her hopeless poverty has given everything she had to live on.”
while Abel presented his flock’s oldest offspring with their fat. The LORD looked favorably on Abel and his sacrificebut didn’t look favorably on Cain and his sacrifice. Cain became very angry and looked resentful.
A son honors a father, and a servant honors his master. But if I’m a father, where is my honor? Or if I’m a master, where is my respect? says the LORD of heavenly forces to you priests who despise my name. So you say, “How have we despised your name?”By approaching my altar with polluted food. But you say, “How have we polluted it?” When you say, “The table of the LORD can be despised.”If you bring a blind animal to sacrifice, isn’t that evil? If you bring a lame or sick one, isn’t that evil? Would you bring it to your governor? Would he be pleased with it or accept you? says the LORD of heavenly forces.
for it to be acceptable on your behalf, it must be a flawless male from the herd, the sheep, or the goats.You must not present anything that has an imperfection, because it will not be acceptable on your behalf.
Some time later, Cain presented an offering to the LORD from the land’s cropswhile Abel presented his flock’s oldest offspring with their fat. The LORD looked favorably on Abel and his sacrificebut didn’t look favorably on Cain and his sacrifice. Cain became very angry and looked resentful.
But if there is any defect in it, lameness, blindness, any flaw whatsoever, you must not sacrifice it to the LORD your God.
You must not present anything that has an imperfection, because it will not be acceptable on your behalf.Whenever someone presents a communal sacrifice of well-being to the LORD from the herd or flock—whether it is payment for a solemn promise or a spontaneous gift—it must be flawless to be acceptable; it must not have any imperfection.You must not present to the LORD anything that is blind or that has an injury, mutilation, warts, a rash, or scabs. You must not put any such animal on the altar as a food gift for the LORD.
If you bring a blind animal to sacrifice, isn’t that evil? If you bring a lame or sick one, isn’t that evil? Would you bring it to your governor? Would he be pleased with it or accept you? says the LORD of heavenly forces.
By approaching my altar with polluted food. But you say, “How have we polluted it?” When you say, “The table of the LORD can be despised.”
When you sacrifice a communal sacrifice of well-being to the LORD, offer it so that it will be accepted on your account.
But you say, “How tedious!” and you groan about it, says the LORD of heavenly forces. You permit what is stolen, lame, or sick to be brought for a sacrifice, and you bring the grain offering. Should I accept such from your hands? says the LORD.I will curse the cheater who has a healthy male in his flock, but who promises and sacrifices to the LORD that which is corrupt. I am truly a great king, says the LORD of heavenly forces, and my name is feared among the nations.
Then Samuel replied, “Does the LORD want entirely burned offerings and sacrifices as much as obedience to the LORD? Listen to this: obeying is better than sacrificing, paying attention is better than fat from rams,
The LORD detests the sacrifices of the wicked, especially when brought with devious motives.
Your lamb should be a flawless year-old male. You may take it from the sheep or from the goats.
You will offer these in addition to the regular entirely burned offering, its grain offering and drink offerings. They will be flawless.
What should I think about all your sacrifices? says the LORD. I’m fed up with entirely burned offerings of rams and the fat of well-fed beasts. I don’t want the blood of bulls, lambs, and goats.When you come to appear before me, who asked this from you, this trampling of my temple’s courts?Stop bringing worthless offerings. Your incense repulses me. New moon, sabbath, and the calling of an assembly— I can’t stand wickedness with celebration!
You must use fair scales, a fair ephah, and a fair bath.The LORD God proclaims: Enough, princes of Israel! Turn aside from violence and oppression. Establish justice and righteousness. Cease your evictions of my people! This is what the LORD God says:
Looking up, Jesus saw rich people throwing their gifts into the collection box for the temple treasury.He also saw a poor widow throw in two small copper coins worth a penny.He said, “I assure you that this poor widow has put in more than them all.All of them are giving out of their spare change. But she from her hopeless poverty has given everything she had to live on.”
The Lord says: Since these people turn toward me with their mouths, and honor me with lip service while their heart is distant from me, and their fear of me is just a human command that has been memorized,
What use to me is incense from Sheba or sweet cane from a faraway land? Your entirely burned offerings won’t buy your pardon; your sacrifices won’t appease me.
This people honors me with their lips, but their hearts are far away from me.Their worship of me is empty since they teach instructions that are human rules.”
Don’t forget to do good and to share what you have because God is pleased with these kinds of sacrifices.
I hate, I reject your festivals; I don’t enjoy your joyous assemblies.If you bring me your entirely burned offerings and gifts of food— I won’t be pleased; I won’t even look at your offerings of well-fed animals.Take away the noise of your songs; I won’t listen to the melody of your harps.
The LORD detests the sacrifices of the wicked, but favors the prayers of those who do right.
With what should I approach the LORD and bow down before God on high? Should I come before him with entirely burned offerings, with year-old calves?Will the LORD be pleased with thousands of rams, with many torrents of oil? Should I give my oldest child for my crime; the fruit of my body for the sin of my spirit?He has told you, human one, what is good and what the LORD requires from you: to do justice, embrace faithful love, and walk humbly with your God.
“Be careful that you don’t practice your religion in front of people to draw their attention. If you do, you will have no reward from your Father who is in heaven.“Whenever you give to the poor, don’t blow your trumpet as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets so that they may get praise from people. I assure you, that’s the only reward they’ll get.But when you give to the poor, don’t let your left hand know what your right hand is doingso that you may give to the poor in secret. Your Father who sees what you do in secret will reward you.
You don’t want sacrifices. If I gave an entirely burned offering, you wouldn’t be pleased.A broken spirit is my sacrifice, God. You won’t despise a heart, God, that is broken and crushed.
“How terrible it will be for you legal experts and Pharisees! Hypocrites! You give to God a tenth of mint, dill, and cumin, but you forget about the more important matters of the Law: justice, peace, and faith. You ought to give a tenth but without forgetting about those more important matters.
Collect gift offerings for the LORD from all of you. Whoever freely wants to give should bring the LORD’s gift offerings: gold, silver, and copper;
Jesus sat across from the collection box for the temple treasury and observed how the crowd gave their money. Many rich people were throwing in lots of money.One poor widow came forward and put in two small copper coins worth a penny.Jesus called his disciples to him and said, “I assure you that this poor widow has put in more than everyone who’s been putting money in the treasury.All of them are giving out of their spare change. But she from her hopeless poverty has given everything she had, even what she needed to live on.”
You yourselves are being built like living stones into a spiritual temple. You are being made into a holy priesthood to offer up spiritual sacrifices that are acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.
Establish justice for me, LORD, because I have walked with integrity. I’ve trusted the LORD without wavering.Examine me, LORD; put me to the test! Purify my mind and my heart.
If I give away everything that I have and hand over my own body to feel good about what I’ve done but I don’t have love, I receive no benefit whatsoever.
So, brothers and sisters, because of God’s mercies, I encourage you to present your bodies as a living sacrifice that is holy and pleasing to God. This is your appropriate priestly service.
I will curse the cheater who has a healthy male in his flock, but who promises and sacrifices to the LORD that which is corrupt. I am truly a great king, says the LORD of heavenly forces, and my name is feared among the nations.
Make no mistake, God is not mocked. A person will harvest what they plant.Those who plant only for their own benefit will harvest devastation from their selfishness, but those who plant for the benefit of the Spirit will harvest eternal life from the Spirit.
You ask and don’t have because you ask with evil intentions, to waste it on your own cravings.
The love of money is the root of all kinds of evil. Some have wandered away from the faith and have impaled themselves with a lot of pain because they made money their goal.
A person’s selfish desires are set against the Spirit, and the Spirit is set against one’s selfish desires. They are opposed to each other, so you shouldn’t do whatever you want to do.
Watch your steps when you go to God’s house. It’s more acceptable to listen than to offer the fools’ sacrifice—they have no idea that they’re acting wrongly.Don’t be quick with your mouth or say anything hastily before God, because God is in heaven, but you are on earth. Therefore, let your words be few.
Who can ascend the LORD’s mountain? Who can stand in his holy sanctuary?Only the one with clean hands and a pure heart; the one who hasn’t made false promises, the one who hasn’t sworn dishonestly.
Bring the whole tenth-part to the storage house so there might be food in my house. Please test me in this, says the LORD of heavenly forces. See whether I do not open all the windows of the heavens for you and empty out a blessing until there is enough. Should a person deceive God? Yet you deceive me. But you say, “How have we deceived you?” With your tenth-part gifts and offerings.You are being cursed with a curse, and you, the entire nation, are robbing me.
If your gift is encouragement, devote yourself to encouraging. The one giving should do it with no strings attached. The leader should lead with passion. The one showing mercy should be cheerful.
A gift is appreciated because of what a person can afford, not because of what that person can’t afford, if it’s apparent that it’s done willingly.It isn’t that we want others to have financial ease and you financial difficulties, but it’s a matter of equality.At the present moment, your surplus can fill their deficit so that in the future their surplus can fill your deficit. In this way there is equality.As it is written, “The one who gathered more didn’t have too much, and the one who gathered less didn’t have too little.”
However, a man named Ananias, along with his wife Sapphira, sold a piece of property.With his wife’s knowledge, he withheld some of the proceeds from the sale. He brought the rest and placed it in the care and under the authority of the apostles.Peter asked, “Ananias, how is it that Satan has influenced you to lie to the Holy Spirit by withholding some of the proceeds from the sale of your land?Wasn’t that property yours to keep? After you sold it, wasn’t the money yours to do with whatever you wanted? What made you think of such a thing? You haven’t lied to other people but to God!”
“Not everybody who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will get into the kingdom of heaven. Only those who do the will of my Father who is in heaven will enter.
Then Jesus said to them, “Watch out! Guard yourself against all kinds of greed. After all, one’s life isn’t determined by one’s possessions, even when someone is very wealthy.”
By faith Abel offered a better sacrifice to God than Cain, which showed that he was righteous, since God gave approval to him for his gift. Though he died, he’s still speaking through faith.
On the first day of the week, each of you should set aside whatever you can afford from what you earn so that the collection won’t be delayed until I come.
All those who rely on the works of the Law are under a curse, because it is written, “Everyone is cursed who does not keep on doing all the things that have been written in the Law scroll”.
Turn my heart to your laws, not to greedy gain.Turn my eyes away from looking at worthless things. Make me live by your way.
Jesus said, “If you want to be complete, go, sell what you own, and give the money to the poor. Then you will have treasure in heaven. And come follow me.”
Tell people who are rich at this time not to become egotistical and not to place their hope on their finances, which are uncertain. Instead, they need to hope in God, who richly provides everything for our enjoyment.Tell them to do good, to be rich in the good things they do, to be generous, and to share with others.When they do these things, they will save a treasure for themselves that is a good foundation for the future. That way they can take hold of what is truly life.