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Sacrifice a thank offering to God, and fulfill your vows to the Most High.
Psalms 50:14 · Berean Standard Bible
Parallel translations
  • WEB Offer to God the sacrifice of thanksgiving. Pay your vows to the Most High.
  • KJV Offer unto God thanksgiving; and pay thy vows unto the most High:
  • NKJV Offer to God thanksgiving, And pay your vows to the Most High.
  • NASB “Offer God a sacrifice of thanksgiving And pay your vows to the Most High;
  • NLT Make thankfulness your sacrifice to God, and keep the vows you made to the Most High.

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Quick answer

God desires thankful worship and the faithful keeping of vows. He wants grateful, sincere devotion, not mere ritual.

Overview

In place of empty formalism, God calls for the 'sacrifice of thanksgiving' and integrity in fulfilling one's vows to Him. This is the kind of worship He truly delights in—offered from a grateful and obedient heart. Hebrews 13:15 carries this forward, urging a continual 'sacrifice of praise' to God through Christ.

Cross-references & the web

Cross-references · 23

  • Heb 13:15Through Jesus, therefore, let us continually offer to God a sacrifice of praise, the fruit of lips that confess His name.
  • Ps 56:12Your vows are upon me, O God; I will render thank offerings to You.
  • Deut 23:21If you make a vow to the LORD your God, do not be slow to keep it, because He will surely require it of you, and you will be guilty of sin.
  • Ps 107:21–22Let them give thanks to the LORD for His loving devotion and His wonders to the sons of men.
  • Ps 116:12–14How can I repay the LORD for all His goodness to me?
  • 1 Pet 2:5you also, like living stones, are being built into a spiritual house to be a holy priesthood, offering spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.
  • Ps 76:11Make and fulfill your vows to the LORD your God; let all the neighboring lands bring tribute to Him who is to be feared.
  • Hos 14:2Bring your confessions and return to the LORD. Say to Him: “Take away all our iniquity and receive us graciously, that we may present the fruit of our lips.
  • Rom 12:1Therefore I urge you, brothers, on account of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as living sacrifices, holy and pleasing to God, which is your spiritual service of worship.
  • 1 Th 5:18Give thanks in every circumstance, for this is God’s will for you in Christ Jesus.
  • Ps 50:23He who sacrifices a thank offering honors Me, and to him who rights his way, I will show the salvation of God.”
  • Ps 147:1Hallelujah! How good it is to sing praises to our God, how pleasant and lovely to praise Him!
  • Ps 69:30–31I will praise God’s name in song and exalt Him with thanksgiving.
  • Eccl 5:4–5When you make a vow to God, do not delay in fulfilling it, because He takes no pleasure in fools. Fulfill your vow.
  • 1 Pet 2:9But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession, to proclaim the virtues of Him who called you out of darkness into His marvelous light.
  • Ps 116:17–18I will offer to You a sacrifice of thanksgiving and call on the name of the LORD.
  • Nah 1:15Look to the mountains—the feet of one who brings good news, who proclaims peace! Celebrate your feasts, O Judah; fulfill your vows. For the wicked will never again march through you; they will be utterly cut off.
  • Num 30:2–16If a man makes a vow to the LORD or swears an oath to obligate himself by a pledge, he must not break his word; he must do everything he has promised.
  • Lev 27:2–34“Speak to the Israelites and say to them, ‘When someone makes a special vow to the LORD involving the value of persons,
  • Ps 27:6Then my head will be held high above my enemies around me. At His tabernacle I will offer sacrifices with shouts of joy; I will sing and make music to the LORD.
  • Ps 22:25My praise for You resounds in the great assembly; I will fulfill my vows before those who fear You.
  • Ps 65:1For the choirmaster. A Psalm of David. A song. Praise awaits You, O God, in Zion; to You our vows will be fulfilled.
  • Ps 61:8Then I will ever sing praise to Your name and fulfill my vows day by day.

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  • VideoBibleProject — Psalms videosBibleProject · Lay · Free · evangelical

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  • ReferenceInterlinear, lexicon & Strong'sBlue Letter Bible · Seminary · Free

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Christ at the center

The Psalms are Christ's own prayer book and a gallery of his portraits — the suffering one of Psalm 22, the risen Lord of Psalm 16, the priest-king of Psalm 110, the Son to whom the nations are given.

How Psalms 50:14 points to him is part of the one story that runs through all Scripture — meet Jesus at the heart of the web, or follow a trail that traces him from Genesis to Revelation.

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