Amos 4:5

New American Bible - revised edition

Burn leavened bread as a thanksgiving sacrifice, proclaim publicly your voluntary offerings, For so you love to do, Israelites— oracle of the Lord God.

Cross References

Hosea 9:10

Like grapes in the desert, I found Israel; Like the first fruits of the fig tree, its first to ripen, I looked on your ancestors. But when they came to Baal-peor and consecrated themselves to the Shameful One, they became as abhorrent as the thing they loved.

Psalm 81:12

But my people did not listen to my words; Israel would not submit to me.

Matthew 6:2

When you give alms, do not blow a trumpet before you, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets to win the praise of others. Amen, I say to you, they have received their reward.

Hosea 9:1

Do not rejoice, Israel, do not exult like the nations! For you have prostituted yourself, abandoning your God, loving a prostitute’s fee upon every threshing floor.

Romans 1:28

And since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, God handed them over to their undiscerning mind to do what is improper.

Matthew 23:23

“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites. You pay tithes of mint and dill and cummin, and have neglected the weightier things of the law: judgment and mercy and fidelity. [But] these you should have done, without neglecting the others.

Matthew 15:9

in vain do they worship me, teaching as doctrines human precepts.’”

Leviticus 23:17

For the elevated offering of your first-ripened fruits to the Lord, you shall bring with you from wherever you live two loaves of bread made of two tenths of an ephah of bran flour and baked with leaven.

Jeremiah 7:9

Do you think you can steal and murder, commit adultery and perjury, sacrifice to Baal, follow other gods that you do not know,

Jeremiah 7:10

and then come and stand in my presence in this house, which bears my name, and say: “We are safe! We can commit all these abominations again!”?

Amos 5:21

I hate, I despise your feasts, I take no pleasure in your solemnities.

Amos 5:22

Even though you bring me your burnt offerings and grain offerings I will not accept them; Your stall-fed communion offerings, I will not look upon them.

Isaiah 1:1

The vision which Isaiah, son of Amoz, saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz and Hezekiah, kings of Judah.

Isaiah 1:11

What do I care for the multitude of your sacrifices? says the Lord. I have had enough of whole-burnt rams and fat of fatlings; In the blood of calves, lambs, and goats I find no pleasure.