Micah 6:6

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

“With what shall I come before the Lord and bow myself before God on high? Shall I come before him with burnt offerings, with calves a year old?

Cross References

2 Samuel 21:3

David said to the Gibeonites, “What shall I do for you? How shall I make expiation, that you may bless the heritage of the Lord?”

Psalm 116:12

What shall I return to the Lord for all his bounty to me?

Psalm 22:29

To him, indeed, shall all who sleep in the earth bow down; before him shall bow all who go down to the dust, and I shall live for him.

Psalm 95:2

Let us come into his presence with thanksgiving; let us make a joyful noise to him with songs of praise!

Psalm 95:6

O come, let us worship and bow down; let us kneel before the Lord, our Maker!

Exodus 12:5

Your lamb shall be without blemish, a year-old male; you may take it from the sheep or from the goats.

Exodus 23:15

You shall observe the Festival of Unleavened Bread; as I commanded you, you shall eat unleavened bread for seven days at the appointed time in the month of Abib, for in it you came out of Egypt. “No one shall appear before me empty-handed.

Proverbs 15:8

The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination to the Lord, but the prayer of the upright is his delight.

Proverbs 21:3

To do righteousness and justice is more acceptable to the Lord than sacrifice.

Isaiah 40:16

Lebanon would not provide fuel enough, nor are its animals enough for a burnt offering.]]

Jeremiah 6:20

Of what use to me is frankincense that comes from Sheba or sweet cane from a distant land? Your burnt offerings are not acceptable, nor are your sacrifices pleasing to me.

Ezekiel 46:9

“When the people of the land come before the Lord at the appointed festivals, whoever enters by the north gate to worship shall go out by the south gate, and whoever enters by the south gate shall go out by the north gate: they shall not return by way of the gate by which they entered but shall go out straight ahead.

Daniel 3:26

Nebuchadnezzar then approached the door of the furnace of blazing fire and said, “Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, servants of the Most High God, come out! Come here!” So Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego came out from the fire.

Daniel 4:9

“O Belteshazzar, chief of the magicians, I know that you are endowed with a spirit of the holy gods and that no mystery is too difficult for you. Hear the dream that I saw, and tell me its interpretation.

Daniel 5:18

As for you, O king, the Most High God gave your father Nebuchadnezzar kingship, greatness, glory, and majesty.

Daniel 5:21

He was driven from human society, and his mind was made like that of an animal. His dwelling was with the wild asses, he was fed grass like oxen, and his body was bathed with the dew of heaven, until he learned that the Most High God has sovereignty over the kingdom of mortals and sets over it whomever he will.

Hosea 5:6

With their flocks and herds they shall go to seek the Lord, but they will not find him; he has withdrawn from them.

Amos 5:22

Even though you offer me your burnt offerings and grain offerings, I will not accept them, and the offerings of well-being of your fatted animals I will not look upon.

Numbers 7:51

one young bull, one ram, one male lamb a year old, for a burnt offering;

Matthew 19:16

Then someone came to him and said, “Teacher, what good deed must I do to have eternal life?”

Mark 12:33

and ‘to love him with all the heart and with all the understanding and with all the strength’ and ‘to love one’s neighbor as oneself’—this is much more important than all whole burnt offerings and sacrifices.”

Mark 5:7

and he shouted at the top of his voice, “What have you to do with me, Jesus, Son of the Most High God? I adjure you by God, do not torment me.”

Luke 10:25

An expert in the law stood up to test Jesus. “Teacher,” he said, “what must I do to inherit eternal life?”

John 6:26

Jesus answered them, “Very truly, I tell you, you are looking for me not because you saw signs but because you ate your fill of the loaves.

Acts 16:17

While she followed Paul and us, she would cry out, “These men are slaves of the Most High God, who proclaim to you the way of salvation.”

Acts 16:30

Then he brought them outside and said, “Sirs, what must I do to be saved?”

Acts 2:37

Now when they heard this, they were cut to the heart and said to Peter and to the other apostles, “Brothers, what should we do?”

Ephesians 3:14

For this reason I bow my knees before the Father,

Hebrews 10:11

And every priest stands day after day at his service, offering again and again the same sacrifices that can never take away sins.

1 Samuel 15:22

And Samuel said, “Has the Lord as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices as in obedience to the voice of the Lord? Surely, to obey is better than sacrifice and to heed than the fat of rams.