Ecclesiastes 5:1 Cross References

Ecclesiastes 5:1

1: As you enter the house of God, keep your ears open and your mouth shut! Don't be a fool who doesn't realize that mindless offerings to God are evil.

James 1:19

  1. My dear brothers and sisters, be quick to listen, slow to speak, and slow to get angry.

Proverbs 15:8

  1. The LORD hates the sacrifice of the wicked, but he delights in the prayers of the upright.

Hebrews 12:28

  1. Since we are receiving a Kingdom that cannot be destroyed, let us be thankful and please God by worshiping him with holy fear and awe.
  2. For our God is a consuming fire.

1 Peter 2:1

  1. So get rid of all malicious behavior and deceit. Don't just pretend to be good! Be done with hypocrisy and jealousy and backstabbing.
  2. You must crave pure spiritual milk so that you can grow into the fullness of your salvation. Cry out for this nourishment as a baby cries for milk,

Isaiah 1:12

  1. Why do you keep parading through my courts with your worthless sacrifices?
  2. The incense you bring me is a stench in my nostrils! Your celebrations of the new moon and the Sabbath day, and your special days for fasting--even your most pious meetings--are all sinful and false. I want nothing more to do with them.
  3. I hate all your festivals and sacrifices. I cannot stand the sight of them!
  4. From now on, when you lift up your hands in prayer, I will refuse to look. Even though you offer many prayers, I will not listen. For your hands are covered with the blood of your innocent victims.
  5. Wash yourselves and be clean! Let me no longer see your evil deeds. Give up your wicked ways.

Joshua 5:15

  1. The commander of the LORD's army replied, "Take off your sandals, for this is holy ground." And Joshua did as he was told.

Isaiah 66:3

  1. But those who choose their own ways, delighting in their sins, are cursed. Their offerings will not be accepted. When such people sacrifice an ox, it is no more acceptable than a human sacrifice. When they sacrifice a lamb or bring an offering of grain, it is as bad as putting a dog or the blood of a pig on the altar! When they burn incense, it is as if they had blessed an idol.

Psalms 89:7

  1. The highest angelic powers stand in awe of God. He is far more awesome than those who surround his throne.

Proverbs 21:27

  1. God loathes the sacrifice of an evil person, especially when it is brought with ulterior motives.

Exodus 3:5

  1. "Do not come any closer," God told him. "Take off your sandals, for you are standing on holy ground."

Malachi 1:10

  1. "I wish that someone among you would shut the Temple doors so that these worthless sacrifices could not be offered! I am not at all pleased with you," says the LORD Almighty, "and I will not accept your offerings.
  2. But my name is honored by people of other nations from morning till night. All around the world they offer sweet incense and pure offerings in honor of my name. For my name is great among the nations," says the LORD Almighty.

Psalms 50:8

  1. I have no complaint about your sacrifices or the burnt offerings you constantly bring to my altar.
  2. But I want no more bulls from your barns; I want no more goats from your pens.
  3. For all the animals of the forest are mine, and I own the cattle on a thousand hills.
  4. Every bird of the mountains and all the animals of the field belong to me.
  5. If I were hungry, I would not mention it to you, for all the world is mine and everything in it.

Hebrews 10:26

  1. Dear friends, if we deliberately continue sinning after we have received a full knowledge of the truth, there is no other sacrifice that will cover these sins.

1 Corinthians 11:22

  1. What? Is this really true? Don't you have your own homes for eating and drinking? Or do you really want to disgrace the church of God and shame the poor? What am I supposed to say about these things? Do you want me to praise you? Well, I certainly do not!

Acts 10:33

  1. So I sent for you at once, and it was good of you to come. Now here we are, waiting before God to hear the message the Lord has given you."

Leviticus 10:3

  1. Then Moses said to Aaron, "This is what the LORD meant when he said, `I will show myself holy among those who are near me. I will be glorified before all the people.'" And Aaron was silent.

Acts 17:11

  1. And the people of Berea were more open-minded than those in Thessalonica, and they listened eagerly to Paul's message. They searched the Scriptures day after day to check up on Paul and Silas, to see if they were really teaching the truth.

Jeremiah 7:21

  1. This is what the LORD Almighty, the God of Israel, says: "Away with your burnt offerings and sacrifices! Eat them yourselves!
  2. When I led your ancestors out of Egypt, it was not burnt offerings and sacrifices I wanted from them.
  3. This is what I told them: `Obey me, and I will be your God, and you will be my people. Only do as I say, and all will be well!'

Hosea 6:6

  1. I want you to be merciful; I don't want your sacrifices. I want you to know God; that's more important than burnt offerings.
  2. "But like Adam, you broke my covenant and rebelled against me.

1 Samuel 15:21

  1. Then my troops brought in the best of the sheep and cattle and plunder to sacrifice to the LORD your God in Gilgal."
  2. But Samuel replied, "What is more pleasing to the LORD: your burnt offerings and sacrifices or your obedience to his voice? Obedience is far better than sacrifice. Listening to him is much better than offering the fat of rams.

1 Samuel 13:12

  1. So I said, `The Philistines are ready to march against us, and I haven't even asked for the LORD's help!' So I felt obliged to offer the burnt offering myself before you came."
  2. "How foolish!" Samuel exclaimed. "You have disobeyed the command of the LORD your God. Had you obeyed, the LORD would have established your kingdom over Israel forever.

Genesis 28:16

  1. Then Jacob woke up and said, "Surely the LORD is in this place, and I wasn't even aware of it."
  2. He was afraid and said, "What an awesome place this is! It is none other than the house of God--the gateway to heaven!"

2 Chronicles 26:16

  1. But when he had become powerful, he also became proud, which led to his downfall. He sinned against the LORD his God by entering the sanctuary of the LORD's Temple and personally burning incense on the altar.

Genesis 4:3

  1. At harvesttime Cain brought to the LORD a gift of his farm produce,
  2. while Abel brought several choice lambs from the best of his flock. The LORD accepted Abel and his offering,
  3. but he did not accept Cain and his offering. This made Cain very angry and dejected.
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