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Formalism
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1 Samuel 15:22But Samuel declared: “Does the LORD delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices as much as in obedience to His voice? Behold, obedience is better than sacrifice, and attentiveness is better than the fat of rams.Psalm 50:9I have no need for a bull from your stall or goats from your pens,Psalm 50:10for every beast of the forest is Mine—the cattle on a thousand hills.Psalm 50:11I know every bird in the mountains, and the creatures of the field are Mine.Psalm 50:12If I were hungry, I would not tell you, for the world is Mine, and the fullness thereof.Psalm 50:13Do I eat the flesh of bulls, or drink the blood of goats?Psalm 50:14Sacrifice a thank offering to God, and fulfill your vows to the Most High.Psalm 50:15Call upon Me in the day of trouble; I will deliver you, and you will honor Me.”Psalm 51:16For You do not delight in sacrifice, or I would bring it; You take no pleasure in burnt offerings.Psalm 51:17The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit; a broken and a contrite heart, O God, You will not despise.Psalm 69:30I will praise God’s name in song and exalt Him with thanksgiving.Psalm 69:31And this will please the LORD more than an ox, more than a bull with horns and hooves.Ecclesiastes 5:1Guard your steps when you go to the house of God. Draw near to listen rather than to offer the sacrifice of fools, who do not know that they do wrong.Isaiah 1:11“What good to Me is your multitude of sacrifices?” says the LORD. “I am full from the burnt offerings of rams and the fat of well-fed cattle; I take no delight in the blood of bulls and lambs and goats.Isaiah 1:12When you come to appear before Me, who has required this of you—this trampling of My courts?Isaiah 1:13Bring your worthless offerings no more; your incense is detestable to Me. New Moons, Sabbaths, and convocations—I cannot endure iniquity in a solemn assembly.Isaiah 1:14I hate your New Moons and your appointed feasts. They have become a burden to Me; I am weary of bearing them.Isaiah 1:15When you spread out your hands in prayer, I will hide My eyes from you; even though you multiply your prayers, I will not listen. Your hands are covered with blood.Isaiah 29:13Therefore the Lord said: “These people draw near to Me with their mouths and honor Me with their lips, but their hearts are far from Me. Their worship of Me is but rules taught by men.Isaiah 29:14Therefore I will again confound these people with wonder upon wonder. The wisdom of the wise will vanish, and the intelligence of the intelligent will be hidden.”Isaiah 29:15Woe to those who dig deep to hide their plans from the LORD. In darkness they do their works and say, “Who sees us, and who will know?”Isaiah 29:16You have turned things upside down, as if the potter were regarded as clay. Shall what is formed say to him who formed it, “He did not make me”? Can the pottery say of the potter, “He has no understanding”?Jeremiah 6:20What use to Me is frankincense from Sheba or sweet cane from a distant land? Your burnt offerings are not acceptable; your sacrifices do not please Me.”Jeremiah 14:12Although they may fast, I will not listen to their cry; although they may offer burnt offerings and grain offerings, I will not accept them. Instead, I will finish them off by sword and famine and plague.”Hosea 6:6For I desire mercy, not sacrifice, and the knowledge of God rather than burnt offerings.Amos 5:21“I hate, I despise your feasts! I cannot stand the stench of your solemn assemblies.Amos 5:22Even though you offer Me burnt offerings and grain offerings, I will not accept them; for your peace offerings of fattened cattle I will have no regard.Amos 5:23Take away from Me the noise of your songs! I will not listen to the music of your harps.Micah 6:6With what shall I come before the LORD when I bow before the God on high? Should I come to Him with burnt offerings, with year-old calves?Micah 6:7Would the LORD be pleased with thousands of rams, with ten thousand rivers of oil? Shall I present my firstborn for my transgression, the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul?Malachi 1:6“A son honors his father, and a servant his master. But if I am a father, where is My honor? And if I am a master, where is your fear of Me?” says the LORD of Hosts to you priests who despise My name. “But you ask, ‘How have we despised Your name?’Malachi 1:8When you offer blind animals for sacrifice, is it not wrong? And when you present the lame and sick ones, is it not wrong? Try offering them to your governor! Would he be pleased with you or show you favor?” asks the LORD of Hosts.Malachi 1:10“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.Malachi 1:13You also say: ‘Oh, what a nuisance!’ And you turn up your nose at it,” says the LORD of Hosts. “You bring offerings that are stolen, lame, or sick! Should I accept these from your hands?” asks the LORD.Malachi 1:14“But cursed is the deceiver who has an acceptable male in his flock and vows to give it, but sacrifices a defective animal to the Lord. For I am a great King,” says the LORD of Hosts, “and My name is to be feared among the nations.Matthew 9:13But go and learn what this means: ‘I desire mercy, not sacrifice.’ For I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners.”Matthew 12:7If only you had known the meaning of ‘I desire mercy, not sacrifice,’ you would not have condemned the innocent.Matthew 15:8‘These people honor Me with their lips, but their hearts are far from Me.Matthew 15:9They worship Me in vain; they teach as doctrine the precepts of men.’”Luke 13:24“Make every effort to enter through the narrow door. For many, I tell you, will try to enter and will not be able.Luke 13:25After the master of the house gets up and shuts the door, you will stand outside knocking and saying, ‘Lord, open the door for us.’ But he will reply, ‘I do not know where you are from.’Luke 13:26Then you will say, ‘We ate and drank with you, and you taught in our streets.’Luke 13:27And he will answer, ‘I tell you, I do not know where you are from. Depart from me, all you evildoers.’Romans 2:17Now you, if you call yourself a Jew; if you rely on the law and boast in God;Romans 2:18if you know His will and approve of what is superior because you are instructed by the law;Romans 2:19if you are convinced that you are a guide for the blind, a light for those in darkness,Romans 2:20an instructor of the foolish, a teacher of infants, because you have in the law the embodiment of knowledge and truth—Romans 2:21you, then, who teach others, do you not teach yourself? You who preach against stealing, do you steal?Romans 2:22You who forbid adultery, do you commit adultery? You who abhor idols, do you rob temples?Romans 2:23You who boast in the law, do you dishonor God by breaking the law?Romans 2:24As it is written: “God’s name is blasphemed among the Gentiles because of you.”Romans 2:25Circumcision has value if you observe the law, but if you break the law, your circumcision has become uncircumcision.Romans 2:26If a man who is not circumcised keeps the requirements of the law, will not his uncircumcision be regarded as circumcision?Romans 2:27The one who is physically uncircumcised yet keeps the law will condemn you who, even though you have the written code and circumcision, are a lawbreaker.Romans 2:28A man is not a Jew because he is one outwardly, nor is circumcision only outward and physical.Romans 2:29No, a man is a Jew because he is one inwardly, and circumcision is a matter of the heart, by the Spirit, not by the written code. Such a man’s praise does not come from men, but from God.1 Corinthians 7:19Circumcision is nothing and uncircumcision is nothing. Keeping God’s commandments is what counts.Philippians 3:4though I myself could have such confidence. If anyone else thinks he has grounds for confidence in the flesh, I have more:Philippians 3:5circumcised on the eighth day, of the people of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin; a Hebrew of Hebrews; as to the law, a Pharisee;Philippians 3:6as to zeal, persecuting the church; as to righteousness in the law, faultless.
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