Isaiah 1:13

New International Version

Stop bringing meaningless offerings! Your incense is detestable to me. New Moons, Sabbaths and convocations— I cannot bear your worthless assemblies.

Cross References

Isaiah 66:3

But whoever sacrifices a bull is like one who kills a person, and whoever offers a lamb is like one who breaks a dog’s neck; whoever makes a grain offering is like one who presents pig’s blood, and whoever burns memorial incense is like one who worships an idol. They have chosen their own ways, and they delight in their abominations;

Malachi 1:10

“Oh, that one of you would shut the temple doors, so that you would not light useless fires on my altar! I am not pleased with you,” says the Lord Almighty, “and I will accept no offering from your hands.

Matthew 15:9

They worship me in vain; their teachings are merely human rules.’ ”

Ezekiel 20:39

“ ‘As for you, people of Israel, this is what the Sovereign Lord says: Go and serve your idols, every one of you! But afterward you will surely listen to me and no longer profane my holy name with your gifts and idols.

Luke 11:42

“Woe to you Pharisees, because you give God a tenth of your mint, rue and all other kinds of garden herbs, but you neglect justice and the love of God. You should have practiced the latter without leaving the former undone.

Joel 2:15

Blow the trumpet in Zion, declare a holy fast, call a sacred assembly.

Lamentations 2:6

He has laid waste his dwelling like a garden; he has destroyed his place of meeting. The Lord has made Zion forget her appointed festivals and her Sabbaths; in his fierce anger he has spurned both king and priest.

Ephesians 4:30

And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, with whom you were sealed for the day of redemption.

1 Corinthians 11:17

In the following directives I have no praise for you, for your meetings do more harm than good.

Joel 1:14

Declare a holy fast; call a sacred assembly. Summon the elders and all who live in the land to the house of the Lord your God, and cry out to the Lord.

Proverbs 21:27

The sacrifice of the wicked is detestable— how much more so when brought with evil intent!

Psalm 78:40

How often they rebelled against him in the wilderness and grieved him in the wasteland!

1 Chronicles 23:31

and whenever burnt offerings were presented to the Lord on the Sabbaths, at the New Moon feasts and at the appointed festivals. They were to serve before the Lord regularly in the proper number and in the way prescribed for them.

Exodus 12:16

On the first day hold a sacred assembly, and another one on the seventh day. Do no work at all on these days, except to prepare food for everyone to eat; that is all you may do.

Philippians 1:15

It is true that some preach Christ out of envy and rivalry, but others out of goodwill.

Numbers 10:2

“Make two trumpets of hammered silver, and use them for calling the community together and for having the camps set out.

Isaiah 66:23

From one New Moon to another and from one Sabbath to another, all mankind will come and bow down before me,” says the Lord.

Hosea 2:11

I will stop all her celebrations: her yearly festivals, her New Moons, her Sabbath days—all her appointed festivals.

Leviticus 26:31

I will turn your cities into ruins and lay waste your sanctuaries, and I will take no delight in the pleasing aroma of your offerings.

2 Kings 4:23

“Why go to him today?” he asked. “It’s not the New Moon or the Sabbath.” “That’s all right,” she said.

Proverbs 7:14

“Today I fulfilled my vows, and I have food from my fellowship offering at home.