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 1:19Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath:
• Heb 12:28–29Wherefore we receiving a kingdom which cannot be moved, let us have grace, whereby we may serve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear:
• Prov 15:8The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination to the LORD: but the prayer of the upright is his delight.
• Isa 1:12–20When ye come to appear before me, who hath required this at your hand, to tread my courts?
• 1 Pet 2:1–2Wherefore laying aside all malice, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil speakings,
• Prov 21:27The sacrifice of the wicked is abomination: how much more, when he bringeth it with a wicked mind?
• Josh 5:15And the captain of the LORD’s host said unto Joshua, Loose thy shoe from off thy foot; for the place whereon thou standest is holy. And Joshua did so.
• Exod 3:5And he said, Draw not nigh hither: put off thy shoes from off thy feet, for the place whereon thou standest is holy ground.
• Ps 50:8–18I will not reprove thee for thy sacrifices or thy burnt offerings, to have been continually before me.
• Isa 66:3He that killeth an ox is as if he slew a man; he that sacrificeth a lamb, as if he cut off a dog’s neck; he that offereth an oblation, as if he offered swine’s blood; he that burneth incense, as if he blessed an idol. Yea, they have chosen their own ways, and their soul delighteth in their abominations.
• Ps 89:7God is greatly to be feared in the assembly of the saints, and to be had in reverence of all them that are about him.
• 1 Cor 11:22What? have ye not houses to eat and to drink in? or despise ye the church of God, and shame them that have not? What shall I say to you? shall I praise you in this? I praise you not.
• Gen 28:16–17And Jacob awaked out of his sleep, and he said, Surely the LORD is in this place; and I knew it not.
• Heb 10:26For if we sin wilfully after that we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remaineth no more sacrifice for sins,
• Acts 17:11These were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness of mind, and searched the scriptures daily, whether those things were so.
• Mal 1:10–11Who is there even among you that would shut the doors for nought? neither do ye kindle fire on mine altar for nought. I have no pleasure in you, saith the LORD of hosts, neither will I accept an offering at your hand.
• Acts 10:33Immediately therefore I sent to thee; and thou hast well done that thou art come. Now therefore are we all here present before God, to hear all things that are commanded thee of God.
• 1 Sam 13:12–13Therefore said I, The Philistines will come down now upon me to Gilgal, and I have not made supplication unto the LORD: I forced myself therefore, and offered a burnt offering.
• Gen 4:3–5And in process of time it came to pass, that Cain brought of the fruit of the ground an offering unto the LORD.
• Lev 10:3Then Moses said unto Aaron, This is it that the LORD spake, saying, I will be sanctified in them that come nigh me, and before all the people I will be glorified. And Aaron held his peace.
• 2 Chr 26:16But when he was strong, his heart was lifted up to his destruction: for he transgressed against the LORD his God, and went into the temple of the LORD to burn incense upon the altar of incense.
• Jer 7:21–23Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Put your burnt offerings unto your sacrifices, and eat flesh.
• Hos 6:6–7For I desired mercy, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings.
• 1 Sam 15:21–22But the people took of the spoil, sheep and oxen, the chief of the things which should have been utterly destroyed, to sacrifice unto the LORD thy God in Gilgal.

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