Formalism

Nave's Topical Bible

Topic from Nave's Topical Bible (Orville J. Nave, 1897) — public domain.

• 1 Samuel 15:22 OT

  Samuel said, “Has Yahweh as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices, as in obeying Yahweh’s voice? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to listen than the fat of rams.

• Psalms 50:9-15 OT

  I have no need for a bull from your stall, nor male goats from your pens. For every animal of the forest is mine, and the livestock on a thousand hills. I know all the birds of the mountains. The wild animals of the field are mine. If I…

• Psalms 51:16 OT

  For you don’t delight in sacrifice, or else I would give it. You have no pleasure in burnt offering.

• Psalms 51:17 OT

  The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit. O God, you will not despise a broken and contrite heart.

• Psalms 69:30 OT

  I will praise the name of God with a song, and will magnify him with thanksgiving.

• Psalms 69:31 OT

  It will please Yahweh better than an ox, or a bull that has horns and hoofs.

• Ecclesiastes 5:1 OT

  Guard your steps when you go to God’s house; for to draw near to listen is better than to give the sacrifice of fools, for they don’t know that they do evil.

• Isaiah 1:11-15 OT

  “What are the multitude of your sacrifices to me?”, says Yahweh. “I have had enough of the burnt offerings of rams and the fat of fed animals. I don’t delight in the blood of bulls, or of lambs, or of male goats. When you come to appear…

• Isaiah 29:13-16 OT

  The Lord said, “Because this people draws near with their mouth and honors me with their lips, but they have removed their heart far from me, and their fear of me is a commandment of men which has been taught; therefore, behold, I will…

• Jeremiah 6:20 OT

  To what purpose does frankincense from Sheba come to me, and the sweet cane from a far country? Your burnt offerings are not acceptable, and your sacrifices are not pleasing to me.”

• Jeremiah 14:12 OT

  When they fast, I will not hear their cry; and when they offer burnt offering and meal offering, I will not accept them; but I will consume them by the sword, by famine, and by pestilence.”

• Hosea 6:6 OT

  For I desire mercy, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings.

• Amos 5:21-23 OT

  I hate, I despise your feasts, and I can’t stand your solemn assemblies. Yes, though you offer me your burnt offerings and meal offerings, I will not accept them; neither will I regard the peace offerings of your fat animals. Take away…

• Micah 6:6 OT

  How shall I come before Yahweh, and bow myself before the exalted God? Shall I come before him with burnt offerings, with calves a year old?

• Micah 6:7 OT

  Will Yahweh be pleased with thousands of rams? With tens of thousands of rivers of oil? Shall I give my firstborn for my disobedience? The fruit of my body for the sin of my soul?

• Malachi 1:6 OT

  “A son honors his father, and a servant his master. If I am a father, then where is my honor? And if I am a master, where is the respect due me? Says Yahweh of Armies to you, priests, who despise my name. You say, ‘How have we despised…

• Malachi 1:8 OT

  When you offer the blind for sacrifice, isn’t that evil? And when you offer the lame and sick, isn’t that evil? Present it now to your governor! Will he be pleased with you? Or will he accept your person?” says Yahweh of Armies.

• Malachi 1:10 OT

  “Oh that there were one among you who would shut the doors, that you might not kindle fire on my altar in vain! I have no pleasure in you,” says Yahweh of Armies, “neither will I accept an offering at your hand.

• Malachi 1:13 OT

  You say also, ‘Behold, what a weariness it is!’ and you have sniffed at it”, says Yahweh of Armies; “and you have brought that which was taken by violence, the lame, and the sick; thus you bring the offering. Should I accept this at your…

• Malachi 1:14 OT

  “But the deceiver is cursed, who has in his flock a male, and vows, and sacrifices to the Lord a defective thing; for I am a great King,” says Yahweh of Armies, “and my name is awesome among the nations.”

• Matthew 9:13 NT

  But you go and learn what this means: ‘I desire mercy, and not sacrifice,’ for I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.”

• Matthew 12:7 NT

  But if you had known what this means, ‘I desire mercy, and not sacrifice,’ you wouldn’t have condemned the guiltless.

• Matthew 15:8 NT

  ‘These people draw near to me with their mouth, and honor me with their lips; but their heart is far from me.

• Matthew 15:9 NT

  And in vain do they worship me, teaching as doctrine rules made by men.’ ”