Amos 5:21 Cross References
Amos 5:21
21: "I hate all your show and pretense--the hypocrisy of your religious festivals and solemn assemblies.
Leviticus 26:31
- I will make your cities desolate and destroy your places of worship, and I will take no pleasure in your offerings of incense.
Jeremiah 6:20
- There is no use now in offering me sweet incense from Sheba. Keep your expensive perfumes! I cannot accept your burnt offerings. Your sacrifices have no sweet fragrance for me."
Isaiah 1:11
- "I am sick of your sacrifices," says the LORD. "Don't bring me any more burnt offerings! I don't want the fat from your rams or other animals. I don't want to see the blood from your offerings of bulls and rams and goats.
- Why do you keep parading through my courts with your worthless sacrifices?
- 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.
- I hate all your festivals and sacrifices. I cannot stand the sight of them!
- 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.
Isaiah 66:3
- 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.
Proverbs 28:9
- The prayers of a person who ignores the law are despised.
Hosea 8:13
- The people of Israel love their rituals of sacrifice, but to me their sacrifices are all meaningless! I will call my people to account for their sins, and I will punish them. They will go back down to Egypt.
Proverbs 15:8
- The LORD hates the sacrifice of the wicked, but he delights in the prayers of the upright.
Matthew 23:13
- "How terrible it will be for you teachers of religious law and you Pharisees. Hypocrites! For you won't let others enter the Kingdom of Heaven, and you won't go in yourselves.
Proverbs 21:27
- God loathes the sacrifice of an evil person, especially when it is brought with ulterior motives.
Genesis 8:21
- And the LORD was pleased with the sacrifice and said to himself, "I will never again curse the earth, destroying all living things, even though people's thoughts and actions are bent toward evil from childhood.
Ephesians 5:2
- Live a life filled with love for others, following the example of Christ, who loved you and gave himself as a sacrifice to take away your sins. And God was pleased, because that sacrifice was like sweet perfume to him.
Philippians 4:18
- At the moment I have all I need--more than I need! I am generously supplied with the gifts you sent me with Epaphroditus. They are a sweet-smelling sacrifice that is acceptable to God and pleases him.
Jeremiah 7:21
- This is what the LORD Almighty, the God of Israel, says: "Away with your burnt offerings and sacrifices! Eat them yourselves!
- When I led your ancestors out of Egypt, it was not burnt offerings and sacrifices I wanted from them.
- 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!'