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Offer right sacrifices,
    and put your trust in the Lord.(A)

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15 Through him, then, let us continually offer a sacrifice of praise to God, that is, the fruit of lips that confess his name.(A) 16 Do not neglect to do good and to share what you have, for such sacrifices are pleasing to God.

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Trust in the Lord and do good;
    live in the land and enjoy security.(A)

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19 then you will delight in right sacrifices,
    in burnt offerings and whole burnt offerings;
    then bulls will be offered on your altar.(A)

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19 Therefore, let those suffering in accordance with God’s will entrust their lives to a faithful Creator, while continuing to do good.

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Trust in him at all times, O people;
    pour out your heart before him;
    God is a refuge for us. Selah(A)

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19 They call peoples to the mountain;
    there they offer the right sacrifices,
for they suck the affluence of the seas
    and the hidden treasures of the sand.”(A)

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23 So when you are offering your gift at the altar, if you remember that your brother or sister has something against you,(A)

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For I, the Lord, love justice,
    I hate robbery and wrongdoing;[a]
I will faithfully give them their recompense,
    and I will make an everlasting covenant with them.(A)

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Footnotes

  1. 61.8 Or robbery with a burnt offering

11 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 fed beasts;
I do not delight in the blood of bulls
    or of lambs or of goats.(A)

12 When you come to appear before me,[a]
    who asked this from your hand?
    Trample my courts no more!(B)
13 Bringing offerings is futile;
    incense is an abomination to me.
New moon and Sabbath and calling of convocation—
    I cannot endure solemn assemblies with iniquity.(C)
14 Your new moons and your appointed festivals
    my soul hates;
they have become a burden to me;
    I am weary of bearing them.(D)
15 When you stretch out your hands,
    I will hide my eyes from you;
even though you make many prayers,
    I will not listen;
    your hands are full of blood.(E)
16 Wash yourselves; make yourselves clean;
    remove your evil deeds
    from before my eyes;
cease to do evil;(F)
17     learn to do good;
seek justice;
    rescue the oppressed;
defend the orphan;
    plead for the widow.(G)

18 Come now, let us argue it out,
    says the Lord:
If your sins are like scarlet,
    will they become like snow?
If they are red like crimson,
    will they become like wool?(H)

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  1. 1.12 Or see my face

When you offer blind animals in sacrifice, is that not wrong? And when you offer those that are lame or sick, is that not wrong? Try presenting that to your governor; will he be pleased with you or show you favor? says the Lord of hosts.(A)

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11 For the Lord God is a sun and shield;
    he bestows favor and honor.
No good thing does the Lord withhold
    from those who walk uprightly.(A)
12 O Lord of hosts,
    happy is everyone who trusts in you.(B)

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14 Offer to God a sacrifice of thanksgiving,[a]
    and pay your vows to the Most High.(A)

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Footnotes

  1. 50.14 Or make thanksgiving your sacrifice to God