Quotes about Offerings
When you offer blind animals for sacrifice, is it not wrong? And when you present the lame and sick ones, is it not wrong? Try offering them to your governor! Would he be pleased with you or show you favor?” asks the LORD of Hosts.
— Malachi 1:8
“Oh, that one of you would shut the temple doors, so that you would no longer kindle useless fires on My altar! I take no pleasure in you,” says the LORD of Hosts, “and I will accept no offering from your hands.
— Malachi 1:10
For My name will be great among the nations, from where the sun rises to where it sets. In every place, incense and pure offerings will be presented in My name, because My name will be great among the nations,” says the LORD of Hosts.
— Malachi 1:11
You also say: ‘Oh, what a nuisance!’ And you turn up your nose at it,” says the LORD of Hosts. “You bring offerings that are stolen, lame, or sick! Should I accept these from your hands?” asks the LORD.
— Malachi 1:13
And this is another thing you do: You cover the altar of the LORD with tears, with weeping and groaning, because He no longer regards your offerings or receives them gladly from your hands.
— Malachi 2:13
And He will sit as a refiner and purifier of silver; He will purify the sons of Levi and refine them like gold and silver. Then they will present offerings to the LORD in righteousness.
— Malachi 3:3
Then the offerings of Judah and Jerusalem will please the LORD, as in days of old and years gone by.
— Malachi 3:4
Will a man rob God? Yet you are robbing Me! But you ask, ‘How do we rob You?’ In tithes and offerings.
— Malachi 3:8
But God turned away from them and gave them over to the worship of the host of heaven, as it is written in the book of the prophets: ‘Did you bring Me sacrifices and offerings forty years in the wilderness, O house of Israel?
— Acts 7:42
After several years, then, I returned to Jerusalem to bring alms to my people and to present offerings.
— Acts 24:17
Do you not know that those who work in the temple eat of its food, and those who serve at the altar partake of its offerings?
— 1 Corinthians 9:13
No, but the sacrifices of pagans are offered to demons, not to God. And I do not want you to be participants with demons.
— 1 Corinthians 10:20