Isaiah 43:23 Cross References

Isaiah 43:23

23: You have not brought me lambs for burnt offerings. You have not honored me with sacrifices, though I have not burdened and wearied you with my requests for grain offerings and incense.

Amos 5:25

  1. "Was it to me you were bringing sacrifices and offerings during the forty years in the wilderness, Israel?

Zechariah 7:5

  1. "Say to all your people and your priests, `During those seventy years of exile, when you fasted and mourned in the summer and at the festival in early autumn, was it really for me that you were fasting?
  2. And even now in your holy festivals, you don't think about me but only of pleasing yourselves.

Jeremiah 7:22

  1. When I led your ancestors out of Egypt, it was not burnt offerings and sacrifices I wanted from them.

Leviticus 2:1

  1. "When you bring a grain offering to the LORD, the offering must consist of choice flour. You are to pour olive oil on it and sprinkle it with incense.

Matthew 11:30

  1. For my yoke fits perfectly, and the burden I give you is light."

Malachi 1:6

  1. The LORD Almighty says to the priests: "A son honors his father, and a servant respects his master. I am your father and master, but where are the honor and respect I deserve? You have despised my name! "But you ask, `How have we ever despised your name?'
  2. "You have despised my name by offering defiled sacrifices on my altar. "Then you ask, `How have we defiled the sacrifices?'"You defile them by saying the altar of the LORD deserves no respect.
  3. When you give blind animals as sacrifices, isn't that wrong? And isn't it wrong to offer animals that are crippled and diseased? Try giving gifts like that to your governor, and see how pleased he is!" says the LORD Almighty.

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.

Amos 5:21

  1. "I hate all your show and pretense--the hypocrisy of your religious festivals and solemn assemblies.
  2. I will not accept your burnt offerings and grain offerings. I won't even notice all your choice peace offerings.

Malachi 1:13

  1. You say, `It's too hard to serve the LORD,' and you turn up your noses at his commands," says the LORD Almighty. "Think of it! Animals that are stolen and mutilated, crippled and sick--presented as offerings! Should I accept from you such offerings as these?" asks the LORD.
  2. "Cursed is the cheat who promises to give a fine ram from his flock but then sacrifices a defective one to the Lord. For I am a great king," says the LORD Almighty, "and my name is feared among the nations!

Proverbs 15:8

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

Proverbs 21:27

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

Malachi 3:8

  1. "Should people cheat God? Yet you have cheated me! "But you ask, `What do you mean? When did we ever cheat you?'"You have cheated me of the tithes and offerings due to me.

Isaiah 1:11

  1. "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.
  2. Why do you keep parading through my courts with your worthless sacrifices?
  3. 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.
  4. I hate all your festivals and sacrifices. I cannot stand the sight of them!
  5. 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.
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