Quotes about Sacrifices
And since every high priest is appointed to offer both gifts and sacrifices, it was necessary for this One also to have something to offer.
— Hebrews 8:3
It is an illustration for the present time, because the gifts and sacrifices being offered were unable to cleanse the conscience of the worshiper.
— Hebrews 9:9
So it was necessary for the copies of the heavenly things to be purified with these sacrifices, but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these.
— Hebrews 9:23
For the law is only a shadow of the good things to come, not the realities themselves. It can never, by the same sacrifices offered year after year, make perfect those who draw near to worship.
— Hebrews 10:1
Instead, those sacrifices are an annual reminder of sins,
— Hebrews 10:3
In the passage above He says, “Sacrifices and offerings, burnt offerings and sin offerings You did not desire, nor did You delight in them” (although they are offered according to the law).
— Hebrews 10:8
Day after day every priest stands to minister and to offer again and again the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins.
— Hebrews 10:11
you also, like living stones, are being built into a spiritual house to be a holy priesthood, offering spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.
— 1 Peter 2:5
What kind of spiritual sacrifices does God expect us to offer? Just as Jesus offered up prayers and petitions during His life on earth, so should we. When we learn to pray, then we are qualified to rule.
— Derek Prince
But sacrifices are useless when unaccompanied by hearts that love and fear God.
— John Bevere
This journey will require you to make some tough sacrifices, but I've come to look at this process as embracing healthy choices rather than denying myself.
— Lysa TerKeurst
Now my head shall be lifted up above my enemies all around me; Therefore I will offer sacrifices of joy in His tabernacle; I will sing, yes, I will sing praises to the LORD. —Psalm 27:6
— John Hagee