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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, Whoever swears by the altar, it is nothing; but whoever swears by the gift on it owes a debt.Fools and blind! For which is greater, the gift, or the altar that sanctifies the gift?
And you shall not walk in the statutes of the nation which I am casting out from before you, for all these they have done, and I am disgusted with them.But I have said to you, You shall possess their land; and, I, I am giving it to you to possess it, a land flowing with milk and honey; I am Jehovah your God, who has set you apart from the nations.And you shall make a difference between the clean animals and the unclean, and between the unclean fowl and the clean. And you shall not defile yourself by beast or by fowl, or by anything which swarms the ground, which I have set apart to you as unclean;
You shall not sacrifice to Jehovah your God an ox or sheep in which there is a blemish, any evil thing, for it is a disgusting thing to Jehovah your God.
And He also spoke this parable to some of those relying on themselves, that they are righteous, and despising the rest:Two men went up into the temple to pray, the one a Pharisee, and the other a tax collector.The Pharisee was standing, praying these things to himself: God, I thank You that I am not as the rest of men, rapacious ones, unrighteous ones, adulterers, or even as this tax collector.I fast twice on the sabbath; I tithe things, as many as I get.And the tax collector, standing afar off, would not even lift up his eyes to Heaven, but smote on his breast, saying, God, be merciful to me, the sinner!I say to you, This one went down to his house having been justified, rather than that one. For everyone exalting himself will be humbled. And the one humbling himself will be exalted.
Each one as he purposes in his heart, not out of grief or out of necessity, for God loves a cheerful giver. Prov. 22:8
Will a man rob God? Yet you are robbing Me. But you say, In what have we robbed You? In the tithe and the offering!
Therefore if you offer your gift on the altar, and remember there that your brother has something against you,leave your gift there before the altar, and go. First, be reconciled to your brother, and then, coming, offer your gift.
For all these out of their abundance put into the gifts of God, but she out of her poverty put in all the living which she had.
And Abel brought, he also, from the firstlings of his flocks, even from their fat. And Jehovah looked to Abel and to his offering.And He did not look to Cain and to his offering. And Cain burned greatly, and his face fell.
A son honors his father, and a servant his master. and if I am a father, where is My honor? And if I am a master, where is My fear? says Jehovah of Hosts to you, O priests who despise My name. But you say, In what have we despised Your name?You are offering defiled food on My altar, and you say, In what have we defiled You? It is in your saying, The table of Jehovah, it is to be despised.And if you offer the blind for sacrifice, is it not evil? And if you offer the lame and the sick, is it not evil? Bring it now to your governor. Will he accept you or lift up your face? says Jehovah of Hosts.
at your own will a male, without blemish, of the oxen, of the sheep, or of the goats may be offered.You shall not offer that which has a blemish; for it shall not be acceptable for you.
And in the end of days, it happened that Cain brought an offering to Jehovah from the fruit of the ground.And Abel brought, he also, from the firstlings of his flocks, even from their fat. And Jehovah looked to Abel and to his offering.And He did not look to Cain and to his offering. And Cain burned greatly, and his face fell.
And if there is any blemish in it, lameness, or blindness, or any evil blemish whatever, you shall not sacrifice it to Jehovah your God.
You shall not offer that which has a blemish; for it shall not be acceptable for you.And when a man brings near a sacrifice of peace offerings to Jehovah, to complete a vow, or for a freewill offering, of the herd or of the flock, it shall be without blemish to be accepted; no blemish shall be in it;one blinded, or broken, or mutilated or with a running sore, or one with an itch, or scabbed, you shall not bring these near to Jehovah; and you shall not make of them a fire offering on the altar to Jehovah.
And if you offer the blind for sacrifice, is it not evil? And if you offer the lame and the sick, is it not evil? Bring it now to your governor. Will he accept you or lift up your face? says Jehovah of Hosts.
You are offering defiled food on My altar, and you say, In what have we defiled You? It is in your saying, The table of Jehovah, it is to be despised.
And if you sacrifice a sacrifice of peace offerings to Jehovah, you shall sacrifice it of your free will;
And you have said, Behold, what weariness! And you have snuffed at it, says Jehovah of Hosts. And you bring what is torn, and lame ones, and what is sick; and you bring the food offering. Should I be pleased with it from your hand? says Jehovah.But cursed be one deceiving and there is a male in his flock, and he vows it, but he sacrifices a blemished one to the Lord. For I am a great King, says Jehovah of Hosts, and My name is feared among the nations.
And Samuel said, Does Jehovah delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices as in obeying the voice of Jehovah? Behold! Obeying is better than sacrifice; to give attention is better than the fat of rams.
The sacrifice of the wicked ones is a disgusting thing; how much more when he brings it with an evil intent!
A flock animal, a male without blemish, a son of a year, shall be to you. You shall take from the sheep or from the goats.
You shall offer them besides the continual burnt offering and its food offering and drink offerings; they shall be ones without blemish for you.
What good to Me are your many sacrifices, says Jehovah? I am sated with burnt offerings of rams, and the fat of fattened cattle, and the blood of bulls; nor do I delight in the blood of lambs and he goats.When you come to see My face, who has required this at your hand, to trample My courts?Do not add to bringing vain sacrifice; its incense is a disgusting thing to Me. I cannot endure the new moon and sabbath, the going to meeting; I cannot endure the evil assembly.
So says the Lord Jehovah: Enough for you, O rulers of Israel! Turn away violence and oppression, and do judgment and righteousness. Lift away your acts of violence from My people, a statement of the Lord Jehovah.Just balances and a just ephah, and a just bath, let there be to you.
And having looked up, He saw the rich ones putting their gifts into the treasury.And He also saw a certain poor widow putting two lepta there.And He said, Truly I say to you, This poor widow put in more than all.For all these out of their abundance put into the gifts of God, but she out of her poverty put in all the living which she had.
And the Lord says, Because this people draws near with its mouth, and they honor Me with its lips; but its heart is far from Me, and their fear of Me is taught the commandment by men;
Why is this to Me; frankincense comes from Sheba, and the good cane from a land afar off? Your burnt offerings are not for acceptance, and your sacrifices are not sweet to Me.
“This people draws near to Me with their mouth, and with the lips honor Me; but their heart holds far away from Me.But in vain they worship Me, teaching as doctrines the precepts of men.” Isa. 29:13
But do not be forgetful of doing good and sharing, for God is well pleased with such sacrifices.
I hate, I reject your feast days; and I will not delight in your solemn assemblies.For though you offer Me burnt offerings and your food offerings, I will not be pleased; and not will I regard the peace offerings of your fat animals.Take away from Me the noise of your songs; and I will not hear the melody of your stringed instruments.
The sacrifice of the wicked one is a disgusting thing to Jehovah, but the prayer of the upright one is His delight.
With what shall I come before Jehovah, to bow down before the loftiness of God? Shall I come before Him with burnt offerings, with calves, sons of a year?Will Jehovah be pleased with thousands of rams, with myriads of torrents of oil? Shall I give my first-born for my transgression, the fruit of my womb for the sin of my soul?O man, He has declared to you what is good. And what does Jehovah require of you, but to do justice, and to love mercy, and to be humble to walk with your God?
Take care not to do your merciful deeds before men in order to be seen by them. But if not, you have no reward from your Father in Heaven.Therefore, when you do merciful deeds, do not trumpet before you as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, so that they may be glorified by men. Truly I say to you, They have their reward.But you doing merciful deeds, do not let your left know what your right hand does,so that your merciful deeds may be in secret. And your Father, the One seeing in secret, Himself will repay you in the open.
For you do not desire sacrifice, or I would give it; You do not delight in burnt offering.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, hypocrites! For you pay tithes of mint and dill and cummin, and you have left aside the weightier matters of the Law: judgment, and mercy, and faith. It was right to do these, and not to have left those aside.
Take from among you an offering to Jehovah. Everyone willing of heart shall bring it, the offering of Jehovah: gold and silver and bronze,
And sitting down opposite the treasury, Jesus was watching how the crowd is thowing copper coins into the treasury. And many rich ones threw in much.And coming, one poor widow threw in two lepta (which is a kodrantes).And having called His disciples near, He said to them, Truly I say to you that this poor widow has thrown in more than all of those casting into the treasury.For all threw in out of that abounding to them, but she out of her poverty threw in all, as much as she had, her whole livelihood.
you also as living stones are being built a spiritual house, a holy priesthood, to offer spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.
A Psalm of David. Judge me, O Jehovah, for I have walked in my integrity; I also have trusted in Jehovah; I shall not slide.Examine me, O Jehovah, and prove me; purify my reins and my heart.
And if I give out all my possesssions, and if I give over my body that I be burned, but I do not have love, I am profited nothing.
Therefore, brothers, I call on you through the compassions of God to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, pleasing to God, which is your reasonable service.
But cursed be one deceiving and there is a male in his flock, and he vows it, but he sacrifices a blemished one to the Lord. For I am a great King, says Jehovah of Hosts, and My name is feared among the nations.
Do not be deceived, God is not mocked. For whatever a man may sow, that he also will reap.For the one sowing to his own flesh will reap corruption of the flesh. But the one sowing to the Spirit will reap everlasting life of the Spirit.
You ask, and do not receive, because you ask badly, in order that you may spend on your pleasures.
For the love of money is a root of all evils, by means of which some stretching toward it were led astray from the faith, and they themselves pierced through by many pains.
For the flesh lusts against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; and these are contrary to one another; that not whatever you may will, but these things you do.
Guard your feet when you go to the house of God, and draw near to hear, more than to give a sacrifice, as do the fools. For they do not know that they are doing an evil thing.Do not be hurried with your mouth, and do not let your heart hurry to bring forth a word before God. For God is in Heaven, and you are on earth; on account of this, let your words be few.
Who shall go up into the hill of Jehovah? And who shall rise in His holy place?The clean of palms and the pure of heart; who has not lifted up his soul to vanity and has not sworn deceit.
Will a man rob God? Yet you are robbing Me. But you say, In what have we robbed You? In the tithe and the offering!You are cursed with a curse, for you are robbing Me, the nation, all of it.Bring all the tithe into the storehouse, so that there may be food in My house. And test Me now in this, says Jehovah of Hosts, whether I will not open the windows of the heavens for you and pour out a blessing until there is no sufficiency.
or the one exhorting, in the encouragement; the one sharing, in simplicity; the one leading, in diligence; the one showing mercy, in cheerfulness.
For if the readiness is present, it is acceptable according to what one has, not according to what one does not have.For it is not that there may be ease to others, but affliction to you;but by equality in the time now, your abundance for the need of those; but also that the abundance of those may be for your need, that there may be equality;even as it is written, “He gathering much, he had nothing left over, and he gathering little did not lack.” Ex. 16:18
But a certain man named Ananias, with his wife Sapphira, sold a property,and kept back for himself from the price, his wife also being aware of it, and bringing a certain part, he placed it at the feet of the apostles.But Peter said, Ananias, why did Satan fill your heart for you to lie to the Holy Spirit and to keep back for yourself from the price of the land?Remaining, did it not remain yours? And being sold, was it not in your authority? Why is it you put this thing into your heart? You did not lie to men, but to God!
Not everyone who says to Me, Lord, Lord, will enter into the kingdom of Heaven, but the ones who do the will of My Father in Heaven.
And He said to them, Beware, and be on guard from covetousness; for one’s life is not in the abundance of the things belonging of him.
By faith Abel offered a greater sacrifice to God than Cain, by which he obtained witness to be righteous, God testifying over his gifts; and through it, having died, he yet speaks.
On the first of the sabbaths, let each one of you put by himself, storing up whatever he is prospered, that there not be collections then when I come.
For as many as are out of works of Law, these are under a curse. For it is writ- ten, “Accursed is everyone who does not continue in all the things having been written in the book of the Law, to do them.” Deut. 27:26
Bow my heart to Your testimonies, and not to unjust gain.Turn my eyes from seeing vanity; in Your way give me life.
Jesus said to him, If you desire to be perfect, go sell the things belonging to you and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in Heaven; and come, follow Me.
Charge the rich in the age now, not to be high-minded, nor to set hope on the uncertainty of riches, but in the living God, the One offering to us richly all things for enjoyment;to do good, to be rich in good works, to be ready to impart, to be generous ones,treasuring away for themselves a good foundation for the coming age, that they may lay hold on everlasting life.