Hosea 5:6
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6 (A)With their flocks and herds they shall go
to seek the Lord,
(B)but they will not find him;
(C)he has withdrawn from them.
Micah 6:6-7
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What Does the Lord Require?
6 (A)“With what shall I come before the Lord,
and bow myself before (B)God on high?
Shall I come before him with burnt offerings,
with calves a year old?
7 (C)Will the Lord be pleased with[a] thousands of rams,
with ten thousands of rivers of oil?
(D)Shall I give my firstborn for my transgression,
the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul?”
Footnotes
- Micah 6:7 Or Will the Lord accept
Proverbs 1:28
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28 (A)Then they will call upon me, but I will not answer;
they will seek me diligently but will not find me.
John 7:34
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34 (A)You will seek me and you will not find me. Where I am you cannot come.”
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Ezekiel 8:6
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6 And he said to me, “Son of man, (A)do you see what they are doing, (B)the great abominations that the house of Israel are committing here, (C)to drive me far from my sanctuary? But you will see still greater abominations.”
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Lamentations 3:44
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44 (A)you have wrapped yourself with a cloud
so that no prayer can pass through.
Jeremiah 7:4
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4 (A)Do not trust in these deceptive words: ‘This is the temple of the Lord, the temple of the Lord, the temple of the Lord.’
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Isaiah 1:11-15
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11 (A)“What to me is the multitude of your sacrifices?
says the Lord;
I have had enough of burnt offerings of rams
and the fat of well-fed beasts;
I do not delight in the blood of bulls,
or of lambs, or of goats.
12 “When you come to (B)appear before me,
who has required of you
this trampling of my courts?
13 Bring no more vain offerings;
incense is an abomination to me.
(C)New moon and Sabbath and the (D)calling of convocations—
I cannot endure (E)iniquity and (F)solemn assembly.
14 Your (G)new moons and your appointed feasts
my soul hates;
they have become a burden to me;
I am weary of bearing them.
15 When you (H)spread out your hands,
I will hide my eyes from you;
(I)even though you make many prayers,
I will not listen;
(J)your hands are full of blood.
Proverbs 15:8
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8 (A)The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination to the Lord,
but (B)the prayer of the upright is acceptable to him.
Luke 5:16
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16 But (A)he would withdraw to desolate places and (B)pray.
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Amos 5:21-23
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21 (A)“I hate, I despise your feasts,
and I take no delight in your solemn assemblies.
22 (B)Even though you offer me your burnt offerings and grain offerings,
I will not accept them;
and the peace offerings of your fattened animals,
I will not look upon them.
23 Take away from me the noise of your songs;
to (C)the melody of your harps I will not listen.
Jeremiah 11:11
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11 Therefore, thus says the Lord, Behold, I am bringing disaster upon them that they cannot escape. (A)Though they cry to me, I will not listen to them.
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Isaiah 66:3
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3 (A)“He who slaughters an ox is like one who kills a man;
he who sacrifices a lamb, like one who breaks a dog's neck;
he who presents a grain offering, like one who offers (B)pig's blood;
he who makes a memorial offering of frankincense, like one who blesses an idol.
(C)These have chosen their own ways,
and their soul delights in their abominations;
Proverbs 21:27
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27 (A)The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination;
how much more (B)when he brings it with evil intent.
Exodus 10:24-26
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24 Then Pharaoh called Moses and said, (A)“Go, serve the Lord; (B)your little ones also may go with you; only let your flocks and your herds remain behind.” 25 But Moses said, “You must also let us have sacrifices and burnt offerings, that we may sacrifice to the Lord our God. 26 Our livestock also must go with us; not a hoof shall be left behind, for we must take of them to serve the Lord our God, and we do not know with what we must serve the Lord until we arrive there.”
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Exodus 10:9
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9 Moses said, “We will go with our young and our old. We will go with our sons and daughters and with our flocks and herds, for (A)we must hold a feast to the Lord.”
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Micah 3:4
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4 (A)Then they will cry to the Lord,
but he will not answer them;
(B)he will hide his face from them at that time,
because they have made their deeds evil.
Ezekiel 8:18
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18 Therefore (A)I will act in wrath. (B)My eye will not spare, nor will I have pity. (C)And though they cry in my ears with a loud voice, I will not hear them.”
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