Isaiah 1:12

New Century Version

You come to meet with me, but who asked you to do all this running in and out of my Temple’s rooms?

Cross References

Psalm 40:6

You do not want sacrifices and offerings. But you have made a hole in my ear to show that my body and life are yours. You do not ask for burnt offerings and sacrifices to take away sins.

Exodus 23:17

“So three times during every year all your males must come to worship the Lord God.

Exodus 34:23

“Three times each year all your males must come before the Lord God, the God of Israel.

Ecclesiastes 5:1

Be careful when you go to worship at the Temple. It is better to listen than to offer foolish sacrifices without even knowing you are doing wrong.

Jeremiah 7:11

This place where I have chosen to be worshiped is nothing more to you than a hideout for robbers. I have been watching you, says the Lord.

Micah 6:8

The Lord has told you, human, what is good; he has told you what he wants from you: to do what is right to other people, love being kind to others, and live humbly, obeying your God.

Zechariah 7:5

“Tell the priests and the people in the land: ‘For seventy years you fasted and cried in the fifth and seventh months, but that was not really for me.

Matthew 23:5

“They do good things so that other people will see them. They enlarge the little boxes holding Scriptures that they wear, and they make their special prayer clothes very long.

Deuteronomy 16:16

All your men must come before the Lord three times a year to the place he will choose. They must come at these times: the Feast of Unleavened Bread, the Feast of Weeks, and the Feast of Shelters. No man should come before the Lord without a gift.