Psalms 51:16 Cross References

Psalms 51:16

16: You would not be pleased with sacrifices, or I would bring them. If I brought you a burnt offering, you would not accept it.

You take no delight in sacrifices or offerings. Now that you have made me listen, I finally understand--you don't require burnt offerings or sin offerings.

That is why Christ, when he came into the world, said, "You did not want animal sacrifices and grain offerings. But you have given me a body so that I may obey you.
No, you were not pleased with animals burned on the altar or with other offerings for sin.

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.

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.

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!'

"I hate all your show and pretense--the hypocrisy of your religious festivals and solemn assemblies.
I will not accept your burnt offerings and grain offerings. I won't even notice all your choice peace offerings.
Away with your hymns of praise! They are only noise to my ears. I will not listen to your music, no matter how lovely it is.

But you desire honesty from the heart, so you can teach me to be wise in my inmost being.

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

"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.

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

However, if someone deliberately attacks and kills another person, then the slayer must be dragged even from my altar and put to death.

I have no complaint about your sacrifices or the burnt offerings you constantly bring to my altar.

"Tell them all this, but do not expect them to listen. Shout out your warnings, but do not expect them to respond.

"But those who brazenly violate the LORD's will, whether native Israelites or foreigners, blaspheme the LORD, and they must be cut off from the community.
Since they have treated the LORD's word with contempt and deliberately disobeyed his commands, they must be completely cut off and suffer the consequences of their guilt."

Also, you must never accept a ransom payment for the life of someone judged guilty of murder and subject to execution; murderers must always be put to death.

"If the unintentional sin is committed by an individual, the guilty person must bring a one-year-old female goat for a sin offering.

"If a man is discovered committing adultery, both he and the other man's wife must be killed. In this way, the evil will be cleansed from Israel.

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