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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 also teach, ‘If someone swears by the altar, he isn't bound by his vow; but if he swears by the gift on the altar, he is bound.’How blind you are! Which is the more important, the gift or the altar which makes the gift holy?
Do not adopt the customs of the people who live there; I am driving out those pagans so that you can enter the land. They have disgusted me with all their evil practices.But I have promised you this rich and fertile land as your possession, and I will give it to you. I am the Lord your God, and I have set you apart from the other nations.So then, you must make a clear distinction between animals and birds that are ritually clean and those that are not. Do not eat unclean animals or birds. I have declared them unclean, and eating them would make you unclean.
“Do not sacrifice to the Lord your God cattle or sheep that have any defects; the Lord hates this.
You should each give, then, as you have decided, not with regret or out of a sense of duty; for God loves the one who gives gladly.
I ask you, is it right for a person to cheat God? Of course not, yet you are cheating me. ‘How?’ you ask. In the matter of tithes and offerings.
So if you are about to offer your gift to God at the altar and there you remember that your brother has something against you,leave your gift there in front of the altar, go at once and make peace with your brother, and then come back and offer your gift to God.
For the others offered their gifts from what they had to spare of their riches; but she, poor as she is, gave all she had to live on.”
Then Abel brought the first lamb born to one of his sheep, killed it, and gave the best parts of it as an offering. The Lord was pleased with Abel and his offering,but he rejected Cain and his offering. Cain became furious, and he scowled in anger.
The Lord Almighty says to the priests, “Children honor their parents, and servants honor their masters. I am your father—why don't you honor me? I am your master—why don't you respect me? You despise me, and yet you ask, ‘How have we despised you?’This is how—by offering worthless food on my altar. Then you ask, ‘How have we failed to respect you?’ I will tell you—by showing contempt for my altar.When you bring a blind or sick or lame animal to sacrifice to me, do you think there's nothing wrong with that? Try giving an animal like that to the governor! Would he be pleased with you or grant you any favors?”
To be accepted, it must be a male without any defects.to tell Aaron and his sons, “You must not bring disgrace on my holy name, so treat with respect the sacred offerings that the people of Israel dedicate to me. I am the Lord.If you offer any animal that has any defects, the Lord will not accept it.
After some time Cain brought some of his harvest and gave it as an offering to the Lord.Then Abel brought the first lamb born to one of his sheep, killed it, and gave the best parts of it as an offering. The Lord was pleased with Abel and his offering,but he rejected Cain and his offering. Cain became furious, and he scowled in anger.
But if there is anything wrong with the animals, if they are crippled or blind or have any other serious defect, you must not sacrifice them to the Lord your God.
If you offer any animal that has any defects, the Lord will not accept it.When anyone presents a fellowship offering to the Lord, whether as fulfillment of a vow or as a freewill offering, the animal must be without any defects if it is to be accepted.Do not offer to the Lord any animal that is blind or crippled or mutilated, or that has a running sore or a skin eruption or scabs. Do not offer any such animals on the altar as a food offering.
When you bring a blind or sick or lame animal to sacrifice to me, do you think there's nothing wrong with that? Try giving an animal like that to the governor! Would he be pleased with you or grant you any favors?”
This is how—by offering worthless food on my altar. Then you ask, ‘How have we failed to respect you?’ I will tell you—by showing contempt for my altar.
“When you kill an animal for a fellowship offering, keep the regulations that I have given you, and I will accept the offering.
You say, ‘How tired we are of all this!’ and you turn up your nose at me. As your offering to me you bring a stolen animal or one that is lame or sick. Do you think I will accept that from you?A curse on the cheater who sacrifices a worthless animal to me, when he has in his flock a good animal that he promised to give me! For I am a great king, and people of all nations fear me.”
Samuel said, “Which does the Lord prefer: obedience or offerings and sacrifices? It is better to obey him than to sacrifice the best sheep to him.
The Lord hates it when wicked people offer him sacrifices, especially if they do it from evil motives.
You may choose either a sheep or a goat, but it must be a one-year-old male without any defects.
Offer these and the wine offering in addition to the daily burnt offering and grain offering.
He says, “Do you think I want all these sacrifices you keep offering to me? I have had more than enough of the sheep you burn as sacrifices and of the fat of your fine animals. I am tired of the blood of bulls and sheep and goats.Who asked you to bring me all this when you come to worship me? Who asked you to do all this tramping around in my Temple?It's useless to bring your offerings. I am disgusted with the smell of the incense you burn. I cannot stand your New Moon Festivals, your Sabbaths, and your religious gatherings; they are all corrupted by your sins.
Jesus looked around and saw rich people dropping their gifts in the Temple treasury,He went on to say, “Countries will fight each other; kingdoms will attack one another.There will be terrible earthquakes, famines, and plagues everywhere; there will be strange and terrifying things coming from the sky.Before all these things take place, however, you will be arrested and persecuted; you will be handed over to be tried in synagogues and be put in prison; you will be brought before kings and rulers for my sake.This will be your chance to tell the Good News.Make up your minds ahead of time not to worry about how you will defend yourselves,because I will give you such words and wisdom that none of your enemies will be able to refute or contradict what you say.You will be handed over by your parents, your brothers, your relatives, and your friends; and some of you will be put to death.Everyone will hate you because of me.But not a single hair from your heads will be lost.Stand firm, and you will save yourselves.and he also saw a very poor widow dropping in two little copper coins.“When you see Jerusalem surrounded by armies, then you will know that it will soon be destroyed.Then those who are in Judea must run away to the hills; those who are in the city must leave, and those who are out in the country must not go into the city.For those will be ‘The Days of Punishment,’ to make come true all that the Scriptures say.How terrible it will be in those days for women who are pregnant and for mothers with little babies! Terrible distress will come upon this land, and God's punishment will fall on this people.Some will be killed by the sword, and others will be taken as prisoners to all countries; and the heathen will trample over Jerusalem until their time is up.“There will be strange things happening to the sun, the moon, and the stars. On earth whole countries will be in despair, afraid of the roar of the sea and the raging tides.People will faint from fear as they wait for what is coming over the whole earth, for the powers in space will be driven from their courses.Then the Son of Man will appear, coming in a cloud with great power and glory.When these things begin to happen, stand up and raise your heads, because your salvation is near.”Then Jesus told them this parable: “Think of the fig tree and all the other trees.He said, “I tell you that this poor widow put in more than all the others.When you see their leaves beginning to appear, you know that summer is near.In the same way, when you see these things happening, you will know that the Kingdom of God is about to come.“Remember that all these things will take place before the people now living have all died.Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will never pass away.“Be careful not to let yourselves become occupied with too much feasting and drinking and with the worries of this life, or that Day may suddenly catch youlike a trap. For it will come upon all people everywhere on earth.Be on watch and pray always that you will have the strength to go safely through all those things that will happen and to stand before the Son of Man.”Jesus spent those days teaching in the Temple, and when evening came, he would go out and spend the night on the Mount of Olives.Early each morning all the people went to the Temple to listen to him.For the others offered their gifts from what they had to spare of their riches; but she, poor as she is, gave all she had to live on.”
The Lord said, “These people claim to worship me, but their words are meaningless, and their hearts are somewhere else. Their religion is nothing but human rules and traditions, which they have simply memorized.
What do I care about the incense they bring me from Sheba, or the spices from a distant land? I will not accept their offerings or be pleased with their sacrifices.
‘These people, says God, honor me with their words, but their heart is really far away from me.It is no use for them to worship me, because they teach human rules as though they were my laws!’”
Do not forget to do good and to help one another, because these are the sacrifices that please God.
The Lord says, “I hate your religious festivals; I cannot stand them!When you bring me burnt offerings and grain offerings, I will not accept them; I will not accept the animals you have fattened to bring me as offerings.Stop your noisy songs; I do not want to listen to your harps.
The Lord is pleased when good people pray, but hates the sacrifices that the wicked bring him.
What shall I bring to the Lord, the God of heaven, when I come to worship him? Shall I bring the best calves to burn as offerings to him?Will the Lord be pleased if I bring him thousands of sheep or endless streams of olive oil? Shall I offer him my first-born child to pay for my sins?No, the Lord has told us what is good. What he requires of us is this: to do what is just, to show constant love, and to live in humble fellowship with our God.
“Make certain you do not perform your religious duties in public so that people will see what you do. If you do these things publicly, you will not have any reward from your Father in heaven. may your Kingdom come; may your will be done on earth as it is in heaven.Give us today the food we need. Forgive us the wrongs we have done, as we forgive the wrongs that others have done to us.Do not bring us to hard testing, but keep us safe from the Evil One.’ “If you forgive others the wrongs they have done to you, your Father in heaven will also forgive you.But if you do not forgive others, then your Father will not forgive the wrongs you have done.“And when you fast, do not put on a sad face as the hypocrites do. They neglect their appearance so that everyone will see that they are fasting. I assure you, they have already been paid in full.When you go without food, wash your face and comb your hair,so that others cannot know that you are fasting—only your Father, who is unseen, will know. And your Father, who sees what you do in private, will reward you.“Do not store up riches for yourselves here on earth, where moths and rust destroy, and robbers break in and steal.“So when you give something to a needy person, do not make a big show of it, as the hypocrites do in the houses of worship and on the streets. They do it so that people will praise them. I assure you, they have already been paid in full.Instead, store up riches for yourselves in heaven, where moths and rust cannot destroy, and robbers cannot break in and steal.For your heart will always be where your riches are.“The eyes are like a lamp for the body. If your eyes are sound, your whole body will be full of light;but if your eyes are no good, your body will be in darkness. So if the light in you is darkness, how terribly dark it will be!“You cannot be a slave of two masters; you will hate one and love the other; you will be loyal to one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and money.“This is why I tell you: do not be worried about the food and drink you need in order to stay alive, or about clothes for your body. After all, isn't life worth more than food? And isn't the body worth more than clothes?Look at the birds: they do not plant seeds, gather a harvest and put it in barns; yet your Father in heaven takes care of them! Aren't you worth much more than birds?Can any of you live a bit longer by worrying about it? “And why worry about clothes? Look how the wild flowers grow: they do not work or make clothes for themselves.But I tell you that not even King Solomon with all his wealth had clothes as beautiful as one of these flowers.But when you help a needy person, do it in such a way that even your closest friend will not know about it.It is God who clothes the wild grass—grass that is here today and gone tomorrow, burned up in the oven. Won't he be all the more sure to clothe you? What little faith you have!“So do not start worrying: ‘Where will my food come from? or my drink? or my clothes?’(These are the things the pagans are always concerned about.) Your Father in heaven knows that you need all these things.Instead, be concerned above everything else with the Kingdom of God and with what he requires of you, and he will provide you with all these other things.So do not worry about tomorrow; it will have enough worries of its own. There is no need to add to the troubles each day brings.Then it will be a private matter. And your Father, who sees what you do in private, will reward you.
You do not want sacrifices, or I would offer them; you are not pleased with burnt offerings.My sacrifice is a humble spirit, O God; you will not reject a humble and repentant heart.
“How terrible for you, teachers of the Law and Pharisees! You hypocrites! You give to God one tenth even of the seasoning herbs, such as mint, dill, and cumin, but you neglect to obey the really important teachings of the Law, such as justice and mercy and honesty. These you should practice, without neglecting the others.
Make an offering to the Lord. Everyone who wishes to do so is to bring an offering of gold, silver, or bronze;
As Jesus sat near the Temple treasury, he watched the people as they dropped in their money. Many rich men dropped in a lot of money;then a poor widow came along and dropped in two little copper coins, worth about a penny.He called his disciples together and said to them, “I tell you that this poor widow put more in the offering box than all the others.For the others put in what they had to spare of their riches; but she, poor as she is, put in all she had—she gave all she had to live on.”
If you are like that, unable to make up your mind and undecided in all you do, you must not think that you will receive anything from the Lord.
Come as living stones, and let yourselves be used in building the spiritual temple, where you will serve as holy priests to offer spiritual and acceptable sacrifices to God through Jesus Christ.
Declare me innocent, O Lord, because I do what is right and trust you completely.those who do evil all the time and are always ready to take bribes.As for me, I do what is right; be merciful to me and save me!I am safe from all dangers; in the assembly of his people I praise the Lord.Examine me and test me, Lord; judge my desires and thoughts.
I may give away everything I have, and even give up my body to be burned—but if I have no love, this does me no good.
So then, my friends, because of God's great mercy to us I appeal to you: Offer yourselves as a living sacrifice to God, dedicated to his service and pleasing to him. This is the true worship that you should offer.
A curse on the cheater who sacrifices a worthless animal to me, when he has in his flock a good animal that he promised to give me! For I am a great king, and people of all nations fear me.”
Do not deceive yourselves; no one makes a fool of God. You will reap exactly what you plant.If you plant in the field of your natural desires, from it you will gather the harvest of death; if you plant in the field of the Spirit, from the Spirit you will gather the harvest of eternal life.
And when you ask, you do not receive it, because your motives are bad; you ask for things to use for your own pleasures.
For the love of money is a source of all kinds of evil. Some have been so eager to have it that they have wandered away from the faith and have broken their hearts with many sorrows.
For what our human nature wants is opposed to what the Spirit wants, and what the Spirit wants is opposed to what our human nature wants. These two are enemies, and this means that you cannot do what you want to do.
Be careful about going to the Temple. It is better to go there to learn than to offer sacrifices like foolish people who don't know right from wrong.If you love money, you will never be satisfied; if you long to be rich, you will never get all you want. It is useless.The richer you are, the more mouths you have to feed. All you gain is the knowledge that you are rich.Workers may or may not have enough to eat, but at least they can get a good night's sleep. The rich, however, have so much that they stay awake worrying.Here is a terrible thing that I have seen in this world: people save up their money for a time when they may need it,and then lose it all in some bad deal and end up with nothing left to pass on to their children.We leave this world just as we entered it—with nothing. In spite of all our work there is nothing we can take with us.It isn't right! We go just as we came. We labor, trying to catch the wind, and what do we get?We get to live our lives in darkness and grief, worried, angry, and sick. Here is what I have found out: the best thing we can do is eat and drink and enjoy what we have worked for during the short life that God has given us; this is our fate.If God gives us wealth and property and lets us enjoy them, we should be grateful and enjoy what we have worked for. It is a gift from God.Think before you speak, and don't make any rash promises to God. He is in heaven and you are on earth, so don't say any more than you have to.
Who has the right to go up the Lord's hill? Who may enter his holy Temple?Those who are pure in act and in thought, who do not worship idols or make false promises.
if it is to encourage others, we should do so. Whoever shares with others should do it generously; whoever has authority should work hard; whoever shows kindness to others should do it cheerfully.
If you are eager to give, God will accept your gift on the basis of what you have to give, not on what you don't have.I am not trying to relieve others by putting a burden on you; but since you have plenty at this time, it is only fair that you should help those who are in need. Then, when you are in need and they have plenty, they will help you. In this way both are treated equally.As the scripture says, “The one who gathered much did not have too much, and the one who gathered little did not have too little.”
But there was a man named Ananias, who with his wife Sapphira sold some property that belonged to them.At once she fell down at his feet and died. The young men came in and saw that she was dead, so they carried her out and buried her beside her husband.The whole church and all the others who heard of this were terrified.Many miracles and wonders were being performed among the people by the apostles. All the believers met together in Solomon's Porch.Nobody outside the group dared join them, even though the people spoke highly of them.But more and more people were added to the group—a crowd of men and women who believed in the Lord.As a result of what the apostles were doing, sick people were carried out into the streets and placed on beds and mats so that at least Peter's shadow might fall on some of them as he passed by.And crowds of people came in from the towns around Jerusalem, bringing those who were sick or who had evil spirits in them; and they were all healed.Then the High Priest and all his companions, members of the local party of the Sadducees, became extremely jealous of the apostles; so they decided to take action.They arrested the apostles and put them in the public jail.But that night an angel of the Lord opened the prison gates, led the apostles out, and said to them,But with his wife's agreement he kept part of the money for himself and turned the rest over to the apostles.“Go and stand in the Temple, and tell the people all about this new life.”The apostles obeyed, and at dawn they entered the Temple and started teaching. The High Priest and his companions called together all the Jewish elders for a full meeting of the Council; then they sent orders to the prison to have the apostles brought before them.But when the officials arrived, they did not find the apostles in prison, so they returned to the Council and reported,“When we arrived at the jail, we found it locked up tight and all the guards on watch at the gates; but when we opened the gates, we found no one inside!”When the chief priests and the officer in charge of the Temple guards heard this, they wondered what had happened to the apostles.Then a man came in and said to them, “Listen! The men you put in prison are in the Temple teaching the people!”So the officer went off with his men and brought the apostles back. They did not use force, however, because they were afraid that the people might stone them.They brought the apostles in, made them stand before the Council, and the High Priest questioned them.“We gave you strict orders not to teach in the name of this man,” he said; “but see what you have done! You have spread your teaching all over Jerusalem, and you want to make us responsible for his death!” Peter and the other apostles answered, “We must obey God, not men.Peter said to him, “Ananias, why did you let Satan take control of you and make you lie to the Holy Spirit by keeping part of the money you received for the property?The God of our ancestors raised Jesus from death, after you had killed him by nailing him to a cross.God raised him to his right side as Leader and Savior, to give the people of Israel the opportunity to repent and have their sins forgiven.We are witnesses to these things—we and the Holy Spirit, who is God's gift to those who obey him.”When the members of the Council heard this, they were so furious that they wanted to have the apostles put to death.But one of them, a Pharisee named Gamaliel, who was a teacher of the Law and was highly respected by all the people, stood up in the Council. He ordered the apostles to be taken out for a while,and then he said to the Council, “Fellow Israelites, be careful what you do to these men.You remember that Theudas appeared some time ago, claiming to be somebody great, and about four hundred men joined him. But he was killed, all his followers were scattered, and his movement died out.After that, Judas the Galilean appeared during the time of the census; he drew a crowd after him, but he also was killed, and all his followers were scattered.And so in this case, I tell you, do not take any action against these men. Leave them alone! If what they have planned and done is of human origin, it will disappear,but if it comes from God, you cannot possibly defeat them. You could find yourselves fighting against God!” The Council followed Gamaliel's advice.Before you sold the property, it belonged to you; and after you sold it, the money was yours. Why, then, did you decide to do such a thing? You have not lied to people—you have lied to God!”
“Not everyone who calls me ‘Lord, Lord’ will enter the Kingdom of heaven, but only those who do what my Father in heaven wants them to do.
And he went on to say to them all, “Watch out and guard yourselves from every kind of greed; because your true life is not made up of the things you own, no matter how rich you may be.”
It was faith that made Abel offer to God a better sacrifice than Cain's. Through his faith he won God's approval as a righteous man, because God himself approved of his gifts. By means of his faith Abel still speaks, even though he is dead.
Every Sunday each of you must put aside some money, in proportion to what you have earned, and save it up, so that there will be no need to collect money when I come.
Those who depend on obeying the Law live under a curse. For the scripture says, “Whoever does not always obey everything that is written in the book of the Law is under God's curse!”
Give me the desire to obey your laws rather than to get rich.Keep me from paying attention to what is worthless; be good to me, as you have promised.
Jesus said to him, “If you want to be perfect, go and sell all you have and give the money to the poor, and you will have riches in heaven; then come and follow me.”
Command those who are rich in the things of this life not to be proud, but to place their hope, not in such an uncertain thing as riches, but in God, who generously gives us everything for our enjoyment.Command them to do good, to be rich in good works, to be generous and ready to share with others.In this way they will store up for themselves a treasure which will be a solid foundation for the future. And then they will be able to win the life which is true life.