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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 you swear on the altar that doesn't count, but if you swear on the sacrifice that's on the altar, then you have to keep your oath.’How foolish and blind you are! What is greater—the sacrifice, or the altar that makes the sacrifice holy?
Don't follow the practices of the nations I'm expelling for you. I detested them because they did all these evil things.But I have promised you that you will take over their land. I'm going to give it to you to own, a land that flows with milk and honey. I am the Lord your God, who has made you a distinctive people different from all others.So make sure you observe the difference between clean and unclean animals and birds. Don't make yourselves unclean because of any animal or bird, or by anything that runs along the ground. I have made the difference clear: they are unclean for you.
Don't sacrifice to the Lord your God cattle or a sheep that has a defect or has something seriously wrong, for that is offensive to the Lord your God.
Everybody should give as they've already decided—not reluctantly, or because they have to, for God loves those who give with a cheerful spirit.
Should people defraud God? Yet you are defrauding me! But you ask, “How have we defrauded you?” In tithes and offerings.
If you're at the altar making an offering, and remember that your brother has something against you,leave your offering on the altar and go and make peace with him first, and afterwards come back and make your offering.
All of them gave from their wealth what they had, but she gave from her poverty all she had to live on.”
Abel also brought an offering: the firstborn lambs of his flock, selecting the very best parts to offer. The Lord was pleased with Abel and his offering,but he wasn't pleased with Cain and his offering, which made Cain very angry and he frowned in annoyance.
A son honors his father, and a servant respects his master. So if I am your father, where is my honor? If I am your master, where is my respect? says the Lord Almighty to you priests who show contempt for me. But you ask, “How have we shown contempt for you?”By making defiled offerings on my altar. Then you ask, “How have we defiled you?” By saying the Lord's table doesn't deserve respect. When you offer a blind animal as a sacrifice, isn't that wrong? Or when you offer an animal that is crippled or sick, isn't that wrong? Would you give such gifts to your governor? Would he be pleased with you? Would he be kind and show favor to you? asks the Lord Almighty.
If it is to be accepted on your behalf you must offer a male without defects from the herds of cattle, sheep, or goats.“Tell Aaron and his sons to be dedicated when dealing with the holy offerings that the Israelites have dedicated to me, so that they don't dishonor my holy character. I am the Lord. Don't present anything with a defect because it won't be accepted on your behalf.
Sometime later Cain brought some of the produce he'd grown as an offering to the Lord.Abel also brought an offering: the firstborn lambs of his flock, selecting the very best parts to offer. The Lord was pleased with Abel and his offering,but he wasn't pleased with Cain and his offering, which made Cain very angry and he frowned in annoyance.
However, if an animal has some defect or is lame or blind, in fact if it has any serious defect at all, you are not to sacrifice it to the Lord your God.
Don't present anything with a defect because it won't be accepted on your behalf.If you want to present a peace offering to the Lord from the herd or flock to fulfill a promise or as a freewill offering, in order to be acceptable the animal must be perfect, completely without defects.Don't present to the Lord an animal that is blind, injured, or damaged in some way, or has warts, skin sores, or scabs. Don't place any animal that has these on the altar as a food offering to the Lord.
When you offer a blind animal as a sacrifice, isn't that wrong? Or when you offer an animal that is crippled or sick, isn't that wrong? Would you give such gifts to your governor? Would he be pleased with you? Would he be kind and show favor to you? asks the Lord Almighty.
By making defiled offerings on my altar. Then you ask, “How have we defiled you?” By saying the Lord's table doesn't deserve respect.
When you sacrifice a peace offering to the Lord, make sure you do it correctly so God will accept you.
You say, “All this is too much trouble!” and you sniff scornfully at it, says the Lord Almighty. But when you bring animals that are stolen or crippled or sick and offer them as sacrifices, should I accept what you're giving? asks the Lord.Cursed are those who cheat by vowing to bring a ram as a sacrifice and then offers an imperfect animal to the Lord. For I am a great King, says the Lord Almighty, and I am respected among the nations!
“Does the Lord prefer burnt offerings and sacrifices, or obedience to what he says?” Samuel asked. “Listen! Obedience is better than sacrifice. Paying attention is more important than offering the fat of rams.
The sacrifices given by the wicked are obnoxious, worse still when they're offered with evil motives.
Your lamb must be a year-old male without any defects, and you can take it either from the sheep or the goats.
Present these offerings along with their drink offerings in addition to the continual burnt offering and its grain offering. Make sure the animals sacrificed have no defects.”
What use are all your many sacrifices to me? asks the Lord. I am sick and tired of your burnt offerings of rams and the fat of sacrificial animals. I don't delight in the blood of bulls and lambs and goats!When you come to appear before me in worship, who asked you to proudly tramp around my courts?Don't bring me any more meaningless offerings; your incense is offensive to me. Your new moon festivals and Sabbath observations and your calling of special religious meetings—I can't stand them because they're evil, as are your solemn assemblies.
Looking around, Jesus watched rich people putting their gifts into the collection box.Nation will fight nation, and kingdom will fight kingdom,” he told them.“There will be severe earthquakes, famines, and epidemic diseases in many lands, and extraordinary signs in the sky that are terrifying.But before all this, they will seize you and persecute you. They will drag you before synagogues and throw you into prison, and put you on trial before kings and governors on account of me.But this will provide you an opportunity to speak on my behalf before them.So make up your mind beforehand not to worry about how to defend yourselves,for I will give you words of wisdom that your enemies won't be able to dispute or contradict.You will be betrayed even by your parents, brothers, relatives, and friends, and they will kill some of you.Everyone will hate you because of me.But not a single hair of your head will be lost.By standing firm you will gain your lives. He also saw a very poor widow put in two small coins. However, when you see Jerusalem surrounded by armies, then you know that its destruction is near.Those who are in Judea should run away to the mountains, and those who are in Jerusalem should leave, and those who are the countryside shouldn't enter the city.For these are days of punishment, fulfilling all that's written.How hard it will be for those who are pregnant or nursing babies at that time! For terrible trouble is coming on the land and punishment against this people.They will be killed by the sword and taken away as prisoners to all the nations. Jerusalem will be trodden down by the foreign nations until their time is fulfilled.There will be signs in the sun, moon, and stars, and on the earth the nations will be in distress, confused by the sea's rolling and crashing.People will be faint from fear, terrified about what is happening to the world, for the powers of heaven will be shaken.Then they'll see the Son of man coming in a cloud with power and great glory.But when these things happen, stand up and look up, because you will soon be saved.”Then he told them this story as an illustration. “Look at the fig tree, or any other kind of tree.“I tell you the truth,” he said, “this poor widow has put in more than all the rest together.When you see new leaves appear, you don't need to be told that summer is near.In the same way, when you see these things happening, you don't need to be told that God's kingdom is near.I tell you the truth, this generation won't come to an end before all this happens.Heaven and earth will come to an end, but my word will not.Watch out that you don't become distracted by partying or getting drunk or by the worries of this life, so that this day catches you by surprise.For this day will come upon everyone who lives on the face of the earth.Always keep watch and pray, so that you may be able to escape all that will happen and stand before the Son of man.”Every day Jesus taught in the Temple, and every evening he went and stayed on the Mount of Olives.All the people came early in the morning to listen to him in the Temple.All of them gave from their wealth what they had, but she gave from her poverty all she had to live on.”
The Lord says, “These people come and praise me with their words, and honor me with lip service, but their thoughts are miles away. Their worship of me only consists of them following rules people have taught them.
What's the point of offering me frankincense from Sheba or sweet calamus from a faraway land? I don't accept your burnt offerings; I'm not pleased with your sacrifices.
‘These people say they honor me but in their minds they don't care about me.Their worship of me is pointless. What they teach are just man-made requirements.’”
And don't forget to do what is good, and to share with others what you have, for God is pleased when you make such sacrifices.
I hate, I despise your festivals and take no delight in your religious assemblies.Even though you present me with burnt offerings and grain offerings, I will not accept them. As for your peace offerings of fattened cattle—I will not even look at them.Stop your noisy worship songs. I will not listen to the melody of your harps.
What should I take with me when I approach the Lord, when I bow down before the God of heaven? Shall I come before him with burnt offerings, with calves a year old?Will the Lord be pleased with thousands of rams, or ten thousand rivers of olive oil? Shall I sacrifice my firstborn child for my rebellion, my own flesh and blood for the sins I have committed?The Lord has told you what is good, and what the Lord asks from you: to do what is right, to love kindness, and to walk in humility with your God.
“Make sure not to do your good deeds in front of people, just so they can be seen. Otherwise you won't have any reward from your Father in heaven.May your kingdom come! May your will be carried out in earth as it is in heaven.Please give to us today the food we need.Forgive our sins, just as we have forgiven those who have sinned against us.Please don't let us give in to temptation, and save us from the evil one. For if you forgive those who sin against you, your heavenly Father will also forgive you.But if you don't forgive those who sin against you, then your heavenly Father won't forgive your sins.When you fast, don't be like the hypocrites who put on sad faces and make themselves look terrible so that everyone can see they're fasting. I tell you the truth, they already have their reward.Instead, when you fast, wash your face and look smart,so that people won't see you're fasting, and your unseen Father who sees what happens in private will reward you.Don't pile up wealth here on earth where moths and rust ruin it, and where thieves break in and steal it.When you give to the poor, don't be like the hypocrites who blow their own trumpets to announce what they're doing in the synagogues and in the streets so that people will praise them. I tell you the truth: they already have their reward.Instead, you should store up your wealth in heaven, where moths and rust don't ruin it, and where thieves don't break in and steal it.For what you value the most shows who you really are.The eye is like a lamp that lights the body. So if your eye is healthy, then your whole body will have light.But if your eye is evil, then your whole body will be in the dark. If the ‘light’ you have is actually darkness, how dark is that!No one can serve two masters. Either you'll hate one and love the other, or you'll be devoted to one and despise the other. You can't serve both God and Money. That's why I'm telling you not to worry about your life. Don't worry about what to eat, or what to drink, or what clothes to put on. Isn't life more than food, and the body more than clothes?Look at the birds—they don't sow or reap or store food in barns, for your heavenly Father feeds them. Aren't you worth more than they are?Who of you by worrying can add a minute to your life?And why are you worried about clothes? Look at the beautiful flowers in the field. See how they grow: they don't work hard, they don't spin thread.But I tell you, not even Solomon in all his glory was dressed like one of these flowers.When you give to the poor, don't let your left hand know what your right hand's doing.So if God decorates the fields like this, grass which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the fire, won't he do much more for you, you people who trust so little?So don't worry, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’These are all the things that the heathen chase after, but your heavenly Father knows everything you need.Seek his kingdom first, and his way of living right, and everything will be given to you.So don't worry about tomorrow, because tomorrow can worry about itself. There's already enough evil in every day.”That way what you give will be in secret, and your Father who sees what happens in secret will reward you.
For sacrifices don't make you happy, or I would bring one; burnt offerings aren't what pleases you.The “sacrifices” that God wants are on the inside—the brokenness of repentance. God won't reject a broken and sorrowful heart.
What a disaster is coming on you religious teachers and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You pay a tithe of mint, aniseed, and cumin, but you neglect the vital aspects of the law—doing good, showing mercy, exercising trust. Yes, you should pay your tithe, but don't forget these other things.
Collect an offering to the Lord from what you have. Everyone who wants to should bring an offering to the Lord: gold, silver, and bronze;
Jesus sat down opposite the treasury collection box, watching people tossing in coins. Many of the rich were extravagantly throwing in a lot of money.Then a poor widow came along and put in just two small coins.He called his disciples together and told them, “I tell you the truth: this poor widow has put in more than all the rest together.All of them gave from their wealth what they had, but she gave from her poverty what she didn't have. She put in all she had to live on.”
you also become like living stones, being built into a spiritual house. You are a holy priesthood that offers spiritual sacrifices that God welcomes through Jesus Christ.
Confirm that I'm innocent, Lord, for I have acted with integrity, and I have trusted in the Lord without fail.whose hands carry out their evil schemes and grab hold of bribes.For I don't do that—I act with integrity. Save me and be gracious to me!I stand for what's right, and I will praise the Lord when we meet together to worship him.Examine me, Lord, test me; investigate my thoughts and intentions.
If I were to donate everything I own to the poor, or if I were to sacrifice myself to be burned as a martyr, and have no love, then I gain nothing.
So I encourage you, my brothers and sisters, because of God's compassion for you, to dedicate your bodies as a living offering that is holy and pleasing to God. This is the logical way to worship.
Cursed are those who cheat by vowing to bring a ram as a sacrifice and then offers an imperfect animal to the Lord. For I am a great King, says the Lord Almighty, and I am respected among the nations!
Don't be fooled, God can't be treated with contempt: whatever you sow, that's what you reap.If you sow according to your sinful human nature, from that nature you'll reap self-destruction. But if you sow according to the Spirit, from the Spirit you'll reap eternal life.
You pray, but don't receive anything, because you ask with a wrong motive, wanting to spend what you'd receive on your selfish pleasures.
For the desire to be rich leads to many kinds of evil results. Some of those who longed for this have turned away from the truth, and have hurt themselves, experiencing a lot of pain.
For the desires of the sinful nature are opposed to the Spirit, and the desires of the Spirit are opposed to the sinful nature. They fight one another, so you don't do what you want to do.
Be careful when you go into God's house. It's better to listen and respond rather than offer meaningless sacrifices. People who do that don't even know they are doing wrong.People who love money never have enough money; those who love wealth never have enough income. This too is so temporary and makes little sense.The more you earn, the more you have eating into your income. It only looks like you have more!Those who work hard sleep well, whether they have a little to eat or plenty, but the rich own so much they don't get any rest.I observed something here that is really sickening: people who hoard money damage themselves.They put their money into bad investments and lose everything. Now when we're born, we don't bring anything into the world.When we die, we leave just as naked as when we were born, taking nothing with us from all we've worked for.This also makes me sick! What do people gain, working for the wind?They live their lives in darkness, very frustrated, sick, and resentful.But I observed that what is good and right is to eat, drink, and to find enjoyment in the work God gives us here in this life. This is God's gift to us.In addition, everyone to whom God gives wealth and possessions he also gives the ability to enjoy these gifts, to be grateful for what they are given, and to enjoy the work they do. This is also God's gift to us.Don't say rash things, and think before you speak to God. For God is in heaven, and you are on earth, so keep it short.
Who is allowed to go up the Lord's mountain? Who is permitted to stand in his holy place?Those who have clean hands and pure minds, who don't worship idols, and who don't lie under oath.
if encouragement then you should encourage; if giving then you should give generously; if leadership then you should lead with commitment; if being merciful then you should do so gladly.
If the willingness is there, it's fine to give what you have, not what you don't have!This is not to make things easier for others and harder for you, but simply to be fair.At the moment you have more than enough and can meet their needs, and in turn when they have more than enough they can meet your needs. In that way everyone is treated fairly.As Scripture says, “The one who had much didn't have any excess, and the one who didn't have much didn't have too little.”
Now a man called Ananias, with his wife Sapphira, sold some property.Immediately she fell down dead at his feet. The young men came back in and found her dead, so they carried her out and buried her beside her husband.Great fear spread through the whole church, as well as among everyone who heard what had happened.Many miraculous signs were performed among the people by the apostles. All the believers used to meet together in Solomon's Porch.Nobody else dared to join them even though they were greatly respected.However, many men and women came to believe in the Lord.As a result, people brought those who were sick into the streets and laid them on beds and mats so that as Peter passed by his shadow might fall on them.Crowds from the towns around Jerusalem brought their sick and those afflicted by evil spirits. They were all healed.However, the high priest and those with him (who were Sadducees) became very jealous and decided to intervene.They arrested the apostles and threw them in the public jail.But during the night an angel of the Lord opened the prison doors and led them out.He kept back some of the money he received for himself, and brought the rest to present to the apostles. His wife knew what he was doing.“Go to the Temple and tell the people everything about this new way of life!” he told them.They did as they were told and went into the Temple at around dawn and began teaching. Then the high priest and his followers called a council meeting with all the leaders of Israel. He sent for the apostles to be brought from prison.But when the officials went to the prison they couldn't find the apostles so they went back and told the council,“We found the prison all locked up, with guards at the doors. But when we had them open up, we couldn't find anyone inside.”Now when the captain of the Temple guards and the chief priests heard this they were totally baffled, and wondered what was going on.Then someone came in and said, “Look, the men you put in prison are right there in the Temple teaching people!”So the captain went with his guards and brought them in, but did not use force because they were afraid that the people would stone them.The apostles were brought in and made to stand in front of the council.“Didn't we order you not to teach in this name?” the high priest demanded to know. “Now look—you've filled the whole of Jerusalem with your teaching, and you're trying to blame us for his death!”But Peter and the apostles answered, “We have to obey God rather than men.Then Peter asked him, “Ananias, why did you let Satan convince you to lie to the Holy Spirit and keep back some of the money from the land you sold?The God of our forefathers raised Jesus from the dead—the one you killed by hanging him on a cross.God exalted him to a position of honor at his right hand as Prince and Savior, as a way to bring repentance to Israel, and for the forgiveness of sins.We are witnesses of what happened, and so is the Holy Spirit, whom God has given to those who obey him.”When the council heard this they were furious and wanted to kill them.But then one of the council members stood up to speak. He was Gamaliel, a Pharisee and a doctor of law who was respected by everyone. He ordered the apostles sent out for a short while.Gamaliel addressed the council: “Leaders of Israel, be careful what you plan to do to these men.Some time ago Theudas tried to make a name for himself, and about four hundred men joined him. He was killed and all who followed him were scattered and it came to nothing.Then after him Judas of Galilee came along at the time of the census, and he attracted some followers. He also died, and those who listened to him were dispersed.So in the current case I recommend that you leave these men alone, and just let them go. If what they are planning or what they are doing comes from their own human thinking, then it will be defeated.But if it comes from God, you won't be able to defeat them. You could even find yourselves fighting against God!”While you had the land, didn't it belong to you? And after you sold it, didn't you still have control over what you did with the money? Why did you decide to do this? You haven't lied to human beings, but to God!”
Not everyone who calls me ‘Lord, Lord’ will enter the kingdom of heaven—only those who do the will of my Father in heaven.
“Watch out, and beware of all greedy thoughts and actions, for a person's life isn't summed up by all the things they own.”
By trusting him Abel offered God a better sacrifice than Cain, and as a result God identified him as someone who lived right. God showed this by accepting his offering. Even though Abel has been dead for a long time, he still speaks to us through what he did.
On the first day of the week everybody should set aside some money you've earned. I don't want there to be any collections to have to be made when I'm with you.
All those who rely on keeping the law are under a curse, for as Scripture says, “Cursed is everyone who doesn't carefully obey everything that's written in the book of the law.”
Help me to concentrate on what you say rather than on making a profit. Don't let me focus on things that are worthless. Help me live in your ways.
Jesus told him, “If you want to be perfect, then go and sell your possessions, give the money to the poor, and you'll have treasure in heaven. Then come and follow me.”
Warn those who are rich in the present world not to become proud. Tell them not to place their trust in wealth that is so insecure but in God who so freely gives us everything for our enjoyment.Tell them to do good, and to become rich in doing good things, ready to share what they have, and to be generous.In this way they store up treasure that will provide a solid basis for the future, so that they can take hold of true life.