Isaiah 1:13

New Living Translation

Stop bringing me your meaningless gifts; the incense of your offerings disgusts me! As for your celebrations of the new moon and the Sabbath and your special days for fasting— they are all sinful and false. I want no more of your pious meetings.

Cross References

2 Kings 4:23

“Why go today?” he asked. “It is neither a new moon festival nor a Sabbath.” But she said, “It will be all right.”

1 Chronicles 23:31

They assisted with the burnt offerings that were presented to the Lord on Sabbath days, at new moon celebrations, and at all the appointed festivals. The required number of Levites served in the Lord’s presence at all times, following all the procedures they had been given.

Psalm 78:40

Oh, how often they rebelled against him in the wilderness and grieved his heart in that dry wasteland.

Exodus 12:16

On the first day of the festival and again on the seventh day, all the people must observe an official day for holy assembly. No work of any kind may be done on these days except in the preparation of food.

Proverbs 21:27

The sacrifice of an evil person is detestable, especially when it is offered with wrong motives.

Proverbs 7:14

“I’ve just made my peace offerings and fulfilled my vows.

Isaiah 66:23

“All humanity will come to worship me from week to week and from month to month.

Isaiah 66:3

But those who choose their own ways— delighting in their detestable sins— will not have their offerings accepted. When such people sacrifice a bull, it is no more acceptable than a human sacrifice. When they sacrifice a lamb, it’s as though they had sacrificed a dog! When they bring an offering of grain, they might as well offer the blood of a pig. When they burn frankincense, it’s as if they had blessed an idol.

Lamentations 2:6

He has broken down his Temple as though it were merely a garden shelter. The Lord has blotted out all memory of the holy festivals and Sabbath days. Kings and priests fall together before his fierce anger.

Ezekiel 20:39

“As for you, O people of Israel, this is what the Sovereign Lord says: Go right ahead and worship your idols, but sooner or later you will obey me and will stop bringing shame on my holy name by worshiping idols.

Hosea 2:11

I will put an end to her annual festivals, her new moon celebrations, and her Sabbath days— all her appointed festivals.

Joel 1:14

Announce a time of fasting; call the people together for a solemn meeting. Bring the leaders and all the people of the land into the Temple of the Lord your God, and cry out to him there.

Joel 2:15

Blow the ram’s horn in Jerusalem! Announce a time of fasting; call the people together for a solemn meeting.

Leviticus 26:31

I will make your cities desolate and destroy your places of pagan worship. I will take no pleasure in your offerings that should be a pleasing aroma to me.

Malachi 1:10

“How I wish one of you would shut the Temple doors so that these worthless sacrifices could not be offered! I am not pleased with you,” says the Lord of Heaven’s Armies, “and I will not accept your offerings.

Numbers 10:2

“Make two trumpets of hammered silver for calling the community to assemble and for signaling the breaking of camp.

Matthew 15:9

Their worship is a farce, for they teach man-made ideas as commands from God.’ ”

Luke 11:42

“What sorrow awaits you Pharisees! For you are careful to tithe even the tiniest income from your herb gardens, but you ignore justice and the love of God. You should tithe, yes, but do not neglect the more important things.

1 Corinthians 11:17

But in the following instructions, I cannot praise you. For it sounds as if more harm than good is done when you meet together.

Ephesians 4:30

And do not bring sorrow to God’s Holy Spirit by the way you live. Remember, he has identified you as his own, guaranteeing that you will be saved on the day of redemption.

Philippians 1:15

It’s true that some are preaching out of jealousy and rivalry. But others preach about Christ with pure motives.