FORMALISM

Passages on this topic · 66

• 1 Samuel 15:22

  Samuel said, “Has Yahweh as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices, as in obeying Yahweh’s voice? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to listen than the fat of rams.

• Psalms 50:9

  I have no need for a bull from your stall, nor male goats from your pens.

• Psalms 50:10

  For every animal of the forest is mine, and the livestock on a thousand hills.

• Psalms 50:11

  I know all the birds of the mountains. The wild animals of the field are mine.

• Psalms 50:12

  If I were hungry, I would not tell you, for the world is mine, and all that is in it.

• Psalms 50:13

  Will I eat the meat of bulls, or drink the blood of goats?

• Psalms 50:14

  Offer to God the sacrifice of thanksgiving. Pay your vows to the Most High.

• Psalms 50:15

  Call on me in the day of trouble. I will deliver you, and you will honor me.”

• Psalms 51:16

  For you don’t delight in sacrifice, or else I would give it. You have no pleasure in burnt offering.

• Psalms 51:17

  The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit. A broken and contrite heart, O God, you will not despise.

• Psalms 69:30

  I will praise the name of God with a song, and will magnify him with thanksgiving.

• Psalms 69:31

  It will please Yahweh better than an ox, or a bull that has horns and hoofs.

• Ecclesiastes 5:1

  Guard your steps when you go to God’s house; for to draw near to listen is better than to give the sacrifice of fools, for they don’t know that they do evil.

• Isaiah 1:11

  “What are the multitude of your sacrifices to me?”, says Yahweh. “I have had enough of the burnt offerings of rams, and the fat of fed animals. I don’t delight in the blood of bulls, or of lambs, or of male goats.

• Isaiah 1:12

  When you come to appear before me, who has required this at your hand, to trample my courts?

• Isaiah 1:13

  Bring no more vain offerings. Incense is an abomination to me; new moons, Sabbaths, and convocations: I can’t bear with evil assemblies.

• Isaiah 1:14

  My soul hates your New Moons and your appointed feasts. They are a burden to me. I am weary of bearing them.

• Isaiah 1:15

  When you spread out your hands, I will hide my eyes from you. Yes, when you make many prayers, I will not hear. Your hands are full of blood.

• Isaiah 29:13

  The Lord said, “Because this people draws near with their mouth and with their lips to honor me, but they have removed their heart far from me, and their fear of me is a commandment of men which has been taught;

• Isaiah 29:14

  therefore, behold, I will proceed to do a marvelous work among this people, even a marvelous work and a wonder; and the wisdom of their wise men will perish, and the understanding of their prudent men will be hidden.”

• Isaiah 29:15

  Woe to those who deeply hide their counsel from Yahweh, and whose deeds are in the dark, and who say, “Who sees us?” and “Who knows us?”

• Isaiah 29:16

  You turn things upside down! Should the potter be thought to be like clay; that the thing made should say about him who made it, “He didn’t make me”; or the thing formed say of him who formed it, “He has no understanding?”

• Jeremiah 6:20

  To what purpose comes there to me frankincense from Sheba, and the sweet cane from a far country? your burnt offerings are not acceptable, nor your sacrifices pleasing to me.”

• Jeremiah 14:12

  When they fast, I will not hear their cry; and when they offer burnt offering and meal offering, I will not accept them; but I will consume them by the sword, and by the famine, and by the pestilence.”

• Hosea 6:6

  For I desire mercy, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings.

• Amos 5:21

  I hate, I despise your feasts, and I can’t stand your solemn assemblies.

• Amos 5:22

  Yes, though you offer me your burnt offerings and meal offerings, I will not accept them; neither will I regard the peace offerings of your fat animals.

• Amos 5:23

  Take away from me the noise of your songs! I will not listen to the music of your harps.

• Micah 6:6

  How shall I come before Yahweh, and bow myself before the exalted God? Shall I come before him with burnt offerings, with calves a year old?

• Micah 6:7

  Will Yahweh be pleased with thousands of rams? With tens of thousands of rivers of oil? Shall I give my firstborn for my disobedience? The fruit of my body for the sin of my soul?

• Malachi 1:6

  “A son honors his father, and a servant his master. If I am a father, then where is my honor? And if I am a master, where is the respect due me? Says Yahweh of Armies to you, priests, who despise my name. You say, ‘How have we despised your name?’

• Malachi 1:8

  When you offer the blind for sacrifice, isn’t that evil? And when you offer the lame and sick, isn’t that evil? Present it now to your governor! Will he be pleased with you? Or will he accept your person?” says Yahweh of Armies.

• Malachi 1:10

  “Oh that there were one among you who would shut the doors, that you might not kindle fire on my altar in vain! I have no pleasure in you,” says Yahweh of Armies, “neither will I accept an offering at your hand.

• Malachi 1:13

  You say also, ‘Behold, what a weariness it is!’ and you have sniffed at it”, says Yahweh of Armies; “and you have brought that which was taken by violence, the lame, and the sick; thus you bring the offering. Should I accept this at your hand?” says Yahweh.

• Malachi 1:14

  “But the deceiver is cursed, who has in his flock a male, and vows, and sacrifices to the Lord a defective thing; for I am a great King,” says Yahweh of Armies, “and my name is awesome among the nations.”

• Matthew 9:13

  But you go and learn what this means: ‘I desire mercy, and not sacrifice,’ for I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.”

• Matthew 12:7

  But if you had known what this means, ‘I desire mercy, and not sacrifice,’ you would not have condemned the guiltless.

• Matthew 15:8

  ‘These people draw near to me with their mouth, and honor me with their lips; but their heart is far from me.

• Matthew 15:9

  And in vain do they worship me, teaching as doctrine rules made by men.’”

• Luke 13:24

  “Strive to enter in by the narrow door, for many, I tell you, will seek to enter in, and will not be able.

• Luke 13:25

  When once the master of the house has risen up, and has shut the door, and you begin to stand outside, and to knock at the door, saying, ‘Lord, Lord, open to us!’ then he will answer and tell you, ‘I don’t know you or where you come from.’

• Luke 13:26

  Then you will begin to say, ‘We ate and drank in your presence, and you taught in our streets.’

• Luke 13:27

  He will say, ‘I tell you, I don’t know where you come from. Depart from me, all you workers of iniquity.’

• Romans 2:17

  Indeed you bear the name of a Jew, and rest on the law, and glory in God,

• Romans 2:18

  and know his will, and approve the things that are excellent, being instructed out of the law,

• Romans 2:19

  and are confident that you yourself are a guide of the blind, a light to those who are in darkness,

• Romans 2:20

  a corrector of the foolish, a teacher of babies, having in the law the form of knowledge and of the truth.

• Romans 2:21

  You therefore who teach another, don’t you teach yourself? You who preach that a man shouldn’t steal, do you steal?

• Romans 2:22

  You who say a man shouldn’t commit adultery. Do you commit adultery? You who abhor idols, do you rob temples?

• Romans 2:23

  You who glory in the law, through your disobedience of the law do you dishonor God?

• Romans 2:24

  For “the name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles because of you,” just as it is written.

• Romans 2:25

  For circumcision indeed profits, if you are a doer of the law, but if you are a transgressor of the law, your circumcision has become uncircumcision.

• Romans 2:26

  If therefore the uncircumcised keep the ordinances of the law, won’t his uncircumcision be accounted as circumcision?

• Romans 2:27

  Won’t the uncircumcision which is by nature, if it fulfills the law, judge you, who with the letter and circumcision are a transgressor of the law?

• Romans 2:28

  For he is not a Jew who is one outwardly, neither is that circumcision which is outward in the flesh;

• Romans 2:29

  but he is a Jew who is one inwardly, and circumcision is that of the heart, in the spirit not in the letter; whose praise is not from men, but from God.

• 1 Corinthians 7:19

  Circumcision is nothing, and uncircumcision is nothing, but the keeping of the commandments of God.

• Philippians 3:4

  though I myself might have confidence even in the flesh. If any other man thinks that he has confidence in the flesh, I yet more:

• Philippians 3:5

  circumcised the eighth day, of the stock of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew of Hebrews; concerning the law, a Pharisee;

• Philippians 3:6

  concerning zeal, persecuting the assembly; concerning the righteousness which is in the law, found blameless.

• Philippians 3:7

  However, I consider those things that were gain to me as a loss for Christ.

• 2 Timothy 3:1

  But know this, that in the last days, grievous times will come.

• 2 Timothy 3:2

  For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,

• 2 Timothy 3:3

  without natural affection, unforgiving, slanderers, without self-control, fierce, not lovers of good,

• 2 Timothy 3:4

  traitors, headstrong, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God;

• 2 Timothy 3:5

  holding a form of godliness, but having denied its power. Turn away from these, also.