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Formalism
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1 Samuel 15:22Samuel said, “Has Yahweh as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices, as in obeying the voice of Yahweh? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to listen than the fat of rams.Psalm 50:9I have no need for a bull from your stall, nor male goats from your pens.Psalm 50:10For every animal of the forest is mine, and the livestock on a thousand hills.Psalm 50:11I know all the birds of the mountains. The wild animals of the field are mine.Psalm 50:12If I were hungry, I would not tell you, for the world is mine, and all that is in it.Psalm 50:13Will I eat the flesh of bulls, or drink the blood of goats?Psalm 50:14Offer to God the sacrifice of thanksgiving. Pay your vows to the Most High.Psalm 50:15Call on me in the day of trouble. I will deliver you, and you will honor me.”Psalm 51:16For you don’t delight in sacrifice, or else I would give it. You have no pleasure in burnt offering.Psalm 51:17The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit. A broken and contrite heart, O God, you will not despise.Psalm 69:30I will praise the name of God with a song, and will magnify him with thanksgiving.Psalm 69:31It will please Yahweh better than an ox, or a bull that has horns and hoofs.Ecclesiastes 5:1Guard 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 1:12When you come to appear before me, who has required this at your hand, to trample my courts?Isaiah 1:13Bring no more vain offerings. Incense is an abomination to me; new moons, Sabbaths, and convocations: I can’t bear with evil assemblies.Isaiah 1:14My soul hates your New Moons and your appointed feasts. They are a burden to me. I am weary of bearing them.Isaiah 1:15When you spread forth 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 29:13The 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 29:14therefore, 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 29:15Woe to those who deeply hide their counsel from Yahweh, and whose works are in the dark, and who say, “Who sees us?” and “Who knows us?”Isaiah 29:16You 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 6:20To 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 14:12When 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 6:6For I desire mercy, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings.Amos 5:21I hate, I despise your feasts, and I can’t stand your solemn assemblies.Amos 5:22Yes, 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 5:23Take away from me the noise of your songs! I will not listen to the music of your harps.Micah 6:6How 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 6:7Will 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 1:8When 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 1:13You 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 blemished thing; for I am a great King,” says Yahweh of Armies, “and my name is awesome among the nations.”Matthew 9:13But 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 12:7But 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 15:9And 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 13:25When 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 13:26Then you will begin to say, ‘We ate and drank in your presence, and you taught in our streets.’Luke 13:27He will say, ‘I tell you, I don’t know where you come from. Depart from me, all you workers of iniquity.’Romans 2:17Indeed you bear the name of a Jew, and rest on the law, and glory in God,Romans 2:18and know his will, and approve the things that are excellent, being instructed out of the law,Romans 2:19and are confident that you yourself are a guide of the blind, a light to those who are in darkness,Romans 2:20a corrector of the foolish, a teacher of babies, having in the law the form of knowledge and of the truth.Romans 2:21You therefore who teach another, don’t you teach yourself? You who preach that a man shouldn’t steal, do you steal?Romans 2:22You who say a man shouldn’t commit adultery. Do you commit adultery? You who abhor idols, do you rob temples?Romans 2:23You who glory in the law, through your disobedience of the law do you dishonor God?Romans 2:24For “the name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles because of you,” just as it is written.Romans 2:25For 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 2:26If therefore the uncircumcised keep the ordinances of the law, won’t his uncircumcision be accounted as circumcision?Romans 2:27Won’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 2:28For he is not a Jew who is one outwardly, neither is that circumcision which is outward in the flesh;Romans 2:29but 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 7:19Circumcision is nothing, and uncircumcision is nothing, but the keeping of the commandments of God.Philippians 3:4though 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 3:5circumcised the eighth day, of the stock of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew of Hebrews; concerning the law, a Pharisee;Philippians 3:6concerning zeal, persecuting the assembly; concerning the righteousness which is in the law, found blameless.
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