Ecclesiastes 5:1

Approach worship carefully, ready to listen and obey rather than offer the careless sacrifice of fools who sin unknowingly. It matters because reverent attentiveness pleases God more than thoughtless religious activity.

Cross-references · 24

• Jas 1:19My beloved brothers, understand this: Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak, and slow to anger,
• Heb 12:28–29Therefore, since we are receiving an unshakable kingdom, let us be filled with gratitude, and so worship God acceptably with reverence and awe.
• Prov 15:8The sacrifice of the wicked is detestable to the LORD, but the prayer of the upright is His delight.
• Isa 1:12–20When you come to appear before Me, who has required this of you—this trampling of My courts?
• 1 Pet 2:1–2Rid yourselves, therefore, of all malice, deceit, hypocrisy, envy, and slander.
• Prov 21:27The sacrifice of the wicked is detestable—how much more so when brought with ill intent!
• Josh 5:15The Commander of the LORD’s army replied, “Take off your sandals, for the place where you are standing is holy.” And Joshua did so.
• Exod 3:5“Do not come any closer,” God said. “Take off your sandals, for the place where you are standing is holy ground.”
• Ps 50:8–18I do not rebuke you for your sacrifices, and your burnt offerings are ever before Me.
• Isa 66:3Whoever slaughters an ox is like one who slays a man; whoever sacrifices a lamb is like one who breaks a dog’s neck; whoever presents a grain offering is like one who offers pig’s blood; whoever offers frankincense is like one who blesses an idol. Indeed, they have chosen their own ways and delighted in their abominations.
• Ps 89:7In the council of the holy ones, God is greatly feared, and awesome above all who surround Him.
• 1 Cor 11:22Don’t you have your own homes in which to eat and drink? Or do you despise the church of God and humiliate those who have nothing? What can I say to you? Shall I praise you for this? No, I will not!
• Gen 28:16–17When Jacob woke up, he thought, “Surely the LORD is in this place, and I was unaware of it.”
• Heb 10:26If we deliberately go on sinning after we have received the knowledge of the truth, no further sacrifice for sins remains,
• Acts 17:11Now the Bereans were more noble-minded than the Thessalonians, for they received the message with great eagerness and examined the Scriptures every day to see if these teachings were true.
• Mal 1:10–11“Oh, that one of you would shut the temple doors, so that you would no longer kindle useless fires on My altar! I take no pleasure in you,” says the LORD of Hosts, “and I will accept no offering from your hands.
• Acts 10:33So I sent for you immediately, and you were kind enough to come. Now then, we are all here in the presence of God to listen to everything the Lord has instructed you to tell us.”
• 1 Sam 13:12–13I thought, ‘Now the Philistines will descend upon me at Gilgal, and I have not sought the favor of the LORD.’ So I felt compelled to offer the burnt offering.”
• Gen 4:3–5So in the course of time, Cain brought some of the fruit of the soil as an offering to the LORD,
• Lev 10:3Then Moses said to Aaron, “This is what the LORD meant when He said: ‘To those who come near Me I will show My holiness, and in the sight of all the people I will reveal My glory.’” But Aaron remained silent.
• 2 Chr 26:16But when Uzziah grew powerful, his arrogance led to his own destruction. He was unfaithful to the LORD his God, for he entered the temple of the LORD to burn incense on the altar of incense.
• Jer 7:21–23This is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: Add your burnt offerings to your other sacrifices and eat the meat yourselves!
• Hos 6:6–7For I desire mercy, not sacrifice, and the knowledge of God rather than burnt offerings.
• 1 Sam 15:21–22The troops took sheep and cattle from the plunder, the best of the things devoted to destruction, in order to sacrifice them to the LORD your God at Gilgal.”

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