Proverbs 15:8

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

The victims of the wicked are abominable to the Lord: the vows of the just are acceptable.

Cross References

Proverbs 15:29

The Lord is far from the wicked: and he will hear the prayers of the just.

Proverbs 21:27

The sacrifices of the wicked are abominable, because they are offered of wickedness.

1 Chronicles 29:17

I know, my God, that thou provest hearts, and lovest simplicity. Wherefore I also in the simplicity of my heart have joyfully offered all these things: and I have seen with great joy thy people, which are here present, offer thee their offerings.

Jeremiah 6:20

To what purpose do you bring me frankincense from Saba, and the sweet smelling cane from a far country? Your holocausts are not acceptable, nor are your sacrifices pleasing to me.

Proverbs 28:9

He that turneth away his ears from hearing the law, his prayer shall be as abomination.

Isaiah 61:8

For I am the Lord that love judgment and hate robbery in a holocaust: and I will make their work in truth; and I will make a perpetual covenant with them.

John 4:24

God is a spirit; and they that adore him, must adore him in spirit and in truth.

Ecclesiastes 5:1

Speak not any thing rashly, and let not thy heart be hasty to utter a word before God. For God is in heaven, and thou upon earth: therefore let thy words be few.

Isaiah 66:3

He that sacrificeth an ox is as if he slew a man: he that killeth a sheep in sacrifice, as if he should brain a dog: he that offereth an oblation, as if he should offer swine's blood; he that remembereth incense, as if he should bless an idol. All these things have they chosen in their ways: and their soul is delighted in their abominations.

Song of Solomon 2:14

My dove in the clefts of the rock, in the hollow places of the wall, shew me thy face, let thy voice sound in my ears: for thy voice is sweet, and thy face comely.

Psalm 17:1

Unto the end, for David the servant of the Lord, who spoke to the Lord the words of this canticle, in the day that the Lord delivered him from the hands of all his enemies, and from the hand of Saul.

Leviticus 7:18

If any man eat of the flesh of the victim of peace-offerings on the third day, the oblation shall be of no effect: neither shall it profit the offerer. Yea rather, whatsoever soul shall defile itself with such meat shall be guilty of transgression.

Proverbs 10:24

That which the wicked feareth, shall come upon him: to the just their desire shall be given.

Proverbs 15:7

The lips of the wise shall disperse knowledge: the heart of fools shall be unlike.

Proverbs 21:3

To do mercy and judgment, pleaseth the Lord more than victims.

Micah 6:7

May the Lord be appeased with thousands of rams, or with many thousands of fat he goats? shall I give my firstborn for my wickedness, the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul?

Haggai 2:14

And Aggeus said: If one that is unclean by occasion of a soul touch any of all these things, shall it be defiled? And the priests answered, and said: It shall be defiled.

2 Samuel 15:12

Absalom also sent for Achitophel the Gilonite, David's counsellor, from his city Gilo. And while he was offering sacrifices, there was a strong conspiracy: and the people running together increased with Absalom.

1 Kings 3:10

And the word was pleasing to the Lord that Solomon had asked such a thing.

Psalm 141:2

I cried to the Lord with my voice: with my voice I made supplication to the Lord.

Micah 6:6

What shall I offer to the Lord that is worthy? wherewith shall I kneel before the high God? shall I offer holocausts unto him, and calves of a year old?

Malachi 1:10

Who is there among you, that will shut the doors, and will kindle the fire on my altar gratis? I have no pleasure in you, saith the Lord of hosts: and I will not receive a gift of your hand.