Think about Job, how he'd offer sacrifices for his children, worried they might have sinned. He wanted to make things right with God. It's a powerful image, isn't it?
But here's the amazing thing: you don't have to do that anymore. Jesus' sacrifice covers everything. His blood has cleansed you, forgiven you. That's a gift worth more than anything, right?
So what can you do now? How can you show your gratitude? It's not about burnt offerings anymore. It's about living a life that honors God. It's about waking up each day and choosing to walk in His will, showing love and obedience in everything you do.
That's the kind of "offering" that truly matters. A genuine heart, filled with thankfulness, radiating His love – that's what God desires most. It's like a beautiful fragrance rising up to Him.
You've already been forgiven. You've confessed Jesus as your savior. Now, turn away from anything that pulls you from Him. Embrace the good, and live each day as a testament to His grace. Live a life worthy of the One who called you out of darkness and into His marvelous light. That’s the best gift you can give.
Every day an ox is to be offered as a sin-offering, to take away sins: and by this offering on it, you will make the altar clean from sin; and you are to put oil on it and make it holy.
And be living in love, even as Christ had love for you, and gave himself up for us, an offering to God for a perfume of a sweet smell.
And whenever you make a prayer, let there be forgiveness in your hearts, if you have anything against anyone; so that you may have forgiveness for your sins from your Father who is in heaven.
If the chief priest by doing wrong becomes a cause of sin to the people, then let him give to the Lord for the sin which he has done, an ox, without any mark, for a sin-offering.
When the sin which they have done comes to light, then let all the people give an ox for a sin-offering, and take it before the Tent of meeting.
And he is to take off all its fat, burning it on the altar.Let him do with the ox as he did with the ox of the sin-offering; and the priest will take away their sin and they will have forgiveness.
In whom we have salvation through his blood, the forgiveness of our sins, through the wealth of his grace,Which he gave us in full measure in all wisdom and care;
Let him do with the ox as he did with the ox of the sin-offering; and the priest will take away their sin and they will have forgiveness.
If then you are making an offering at the altar and there it comes to your mind that your brother has something against you,While your offering is still before the altar, first go and make peace with your brother, then come and make your offering.
Say to the children of Israel that they are to make me an offering; from every man who has the impulse in his heart take an offering for me.
And we have here an offering for the Lord from what every man took in the war, ornaments of gold, leg-chains and arm-rings, finger-rings, ear-rings, and neck-ornaments, to make our souls free from sin before the Lord.
Will a man keep back from God what is right? But you have kept back what is mine. But you say, What have we kept back from you? Tenths and offerings.
Be not judges of others, and you will not be judged: do not give punishment to others, and you will not get punishment yourselves: make others free, and you will be made free:
Let every man do after the purpose of his heart; not giving with grief, or by force: for God takes pleasure in a ready giver.
And now, take seven oxen and seven sheep, and go to my servant Job, and give a burned offering for yourselves, and my servant Job will make prayer for you, that I may not send punishment on you; because you have not said what is right about me, as my servant Job has.
And so, let it be clear to you, my brothers, that through this man forgiveness of sins is offered to you:
Give to the Lord the glory of his name; take with you an offering and come into his house.
Take care not to do your good works before men, to be seen by them; or you will have no reward from your Father in heaven.When then you give money to the poor, do not make a noise about it, as the false-hearted men do in the Synagogues and in the streets, so that they may have glory from men. Truly, I say to you, They have their reward.But when you give money, let not your left hand see what your right hand does:So that your giving may be in secret; and your Father, who sees in secret, will give you your reward.
Give honour to the Lord with your wealth, and with the first-fruits of all your increase:So your store-houses will be full of grain, and your vessels overflowing with new wine.
And every tenth part of the land, of the seed planted, or of the fruit of trees, is holy to the Lord.
Give to the Lord the glory of his name; take with you an offering and come before him; give worship to the Lord in holy robes.
Then keep the feast of weeks to the Lord your God, with an offering freely given to him from the wealth he has given you:
And when you give a peace offering to the Lord, do it in the way which is pleasing to the Lord.
Every man is to give as he is able, in the measure of the blessing which the Lord your God has given you.
Whatever your lips have said, see that you do it; for you gave your word freely to the Lord your God.
But anything which has a mark you may not give; it will not make you pleasing to the Lord.And whoever makes a peace-offering to the Lord, in payment of an oath or as a free offering, from the herd or the flock, if it is to be pleasing to the Lord, let it be free from any mark or damage.
And whoever there may be of the rest of Israel, living in any place, let the men of that place give him help with offerings of silver and gold and goods and beasts, in addition to the offering freely given for the house of God in Jerusalem.
The offerings of God are a broken spirit; a broken and sorrowing heart, O God, you will not put from you.
And Kore, the son of Imnah the Levite, the keeper of the east door, had control of the offerings freely given to God, and the distribution of the offerings of the Lord and the most holy things.
You, as living stones, are being made into a house of the spirit, a holy order of priests, making those offerings of the spirit which are pleasing to God through Jesus Christ.
So you are to make an offering lifted up to the Lord from all the tenths which you get from the children of Israel, giving out of it the Lord's lifted offering to Aaron the priest.
Give, and it will be given to you; good measure, crushed down, full and running over, they will give to you. For in the same measure as you give, it will be given to you again.
The offering of evil-doers is disgusting: how much more when they give it with an evil purpose!
But who am I and what is my people, that we have power to give so freely in this way? for all things come from you, and what we have given you is yours.
But go on doing good and giving to others, because God is well-pleased with such offerings.
Make no store of wealth for yourselves on earth, where it may be turned to dust by worms and weather, and where thieves may come in by force and take it away.But make a store for yourselves in heaven, where it will not be turned to dust and where thieves do not come in to take it away:For where your wealth is, there will your heart be.
Be not tricked; God is not made sport of: for whatever seed a man puts in, that will he get back as grain.
And after a time, Cain gave to the Lord an offering of the fruits of the earth.And Abel gave an offering of the young lambs of his flock and of their fat. And the Lord was pleased with Abel's offering;
Give orders to those who have money and goods in this life, not to be lifted up in their minds, or to put their hope in the uncertain chances of wealth, but in God who gives us in full measure all things for our use;And to do good, having wealth in good works, being quick to give, taking part with one another;Making ready for themselves a safe place for the time to come, so that the true life may be theirs.
Freely will I make my offerings to you; I will give praise to your name, O Lord, for it is good.
Give honour to the Lord with your wealth, and with the first-fruits of all your increase:
Make the tree good, and its fruit good; or make the tree bad, and its fruit bad; for by its fruit you will get knowledge of the tree.You offspring of snakes, how are you, being evil, able to say good things? because out of the heart's store come the words of the mouth.The good man out of his good store gives good things; and the evil man out of his evil store gives evil things.
And in them they put all the offerings and the tenths and the holy things, keeping nothing back, and over them was Conaniah the Levite, with Shimei his brother second to him.
For this reason I make request to you, brothers, by the mercies of God, that you will give your bodies as a living offering, holy, pleasing to God, which is the worship it is right for you to give him.
For if you let men have forgiveness for their sins, you will have forgiveness from your Father in heaven.But if you do not let men have forgiveness for their sins, you will not have forgiveness from your Father for your sins.
What use to me is the number of the offerings which you give me? says the Lord; your burned offerings of sheep, and the best parts of fat cattle, are a weariness to me; I take no pleasure in the blood of oxen, or of lambs, or of he-goats.At whose request do you come before me, making my house unclean with your feet?Give me no more false offerings; the smoke of burning flesh is disgusting to me, so are your new moons and Sabbaths and your holy meetings.Your new moons and your regular feasts are a grief to my soul: they are a weight in my spirit; I am crushed under them.And when your hands are stretched out to me, my eyes will be turned away from you: even though you go on making prayers, I will not give ear: your hands are full of blood.
Being gentle to one another and having forgiveness for one another, if anyone has done wrong to his brother, even as the Lord had forgiveness for you:
And be kind to one another, full of pity, having forgiveness for one another, even as God in Christ had forgiveness for you.
And looking up, he saw the men of wealth putting their offerings in the money-box.And he saw a certain poor widow putting in a farthing.And he said, Truly I say to you, This poor widow has given more than all of them:For they gave out of their wealth, having more than enough for themselves: but she, even out of her need, has put in all her living.
Give attention to yourselves: if your brother does wrong, say a sharp word to him; and if he has sorrow for his sin, let him have forgiveness.And if he does you wrong seven times in a day, and seven times comes to you and says, I have regret for what I have done; let him have forgiveness.
Jesus says to him, I say not to you, Till seven times; but, Till seventy times seven.For this reason the kingdom of heaven is like a king, who went over his accounts with his servants.
Let your tenths come into the store-house so that there may be food in my house, and put me to the test by doing so, says the Lord of armies, and see if I do not make the windows of heaven open and send down such a blessing on you that there is no room for it.
He has not given us the punishment for our sins, or the reward of our wrongdoing.For as the heaven is high over the earth, so great is his mercy to his worshippers.As far as the east is from the west, so far has he put our sins from us.
And if you make me an altar of stone do not make it of cut stones: for the touch of an instrument will make it unclean.
A man may give freely, and still his wealth will be increased; and another may keep back more than is right, but only comes to be in need.He who gives blessing will be made fat, but the curser will himself be cursed.
Come now, and let us have an argument together, says the Lord: how may your sins which are red like blood be white as snow? how may their dark purple seem like wool?
The sinner takes money and does not give it back; but the upright man has mercy, and gives to others.
If we say openly that we have done wrong, he is upright and true to his word, giving us forgiveness of sins and making us clean from all evil.
O Jah, if you took note of every sin, who would go free?But there is forgiveness with you, so that you may be feared.
And whatever you do, in word or in act, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving praise to God the Father through him.
For if there is a ready mind, a man will have God's approval in the measure of what he has, and not of what he has not.
But God has made clear his love to us, in that, when we were still sinners, Christ gave his life for us.
And the people were looking on. And the rulers made sport of him, saying, He was a saviour of others; let him do something for himself, if he is the Christ, the man of God's selection.
I have all things and more than enough: I am made full, having had from Epaphroditus the things which came from you, a perfume of a sweet smell, an offering well pleasing to God.
So then, let your hearts be changed and be turned to God, so that your sins may be completely taken away, and times of blessing may come from the Lord;
All is well for the man who is kind and gives freely to others; he will make good his cause when he is judged.
All those things, then, which you would have men do to you, even so do you to them: because this is the law and the prophets.
For it has been the good pleasure of those of Macedonia and Achaia to send a certain amount of money for the poor among the saints at Jerusalem.Yes, it has been their good pleasure; and they are in their debt. For if the Gentiles have had a part in the things of the Spirit which were theirs, it is right for them, in the same way, to give them help in the things of the flesh.
On the first day of the week, let every one of you put by him in store, in measure as he has done well in business, so that it may not be necessary to get money together when I come.
In all things I was an example to you of how, in your lives, you are to give help to the feeble, and keep in memory the words of the Lord Jesus, how he himself said, There is a greater blessing in giving than in getting.
Let us then make offerings of praise to God at all times through him, that is to say, the fruit of lips giving witness to his name.But go on doing good and giving to others, because God is well-pleased with such offerings.