Bible Verses About Offerings: Unavailing when not accompanied by piety

Sh'mu'el said, "Does ADONAI take as much pleasure in burnt offerings and sacrifices as in obeying what ADONAI says? Surely obeying is better than sacrifice, and heeding orders than the fat of rams.

Sacrifices and grain offerings you don't want; burnt offerings and sin offerings you don't demand. Instead, you have given me open ears;

I am not rebuking you for your sacrifices; your burnt offerings are always before me.

I have no need for a bull from your farm or for male goats from your pens;

for all forest creatures are mine already, as are the animals on a thousand hills;

I know all the birds in the mountains; whatever moves in the fields is mine.

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

Do I eat the flesh of bulls or drink the blood of goats?

Offer thanksgiving as your sacrifice to God, pay your vows to the Most High,

For you don't want sacrifices, or I would give them; you don't take pleasure in burnt offerings.

My sacrifice to God is a broken spirit; God, you won't spurn a broken, chastened heart.

To do what is right and just is more pleasing to ADONAI than sacrifice.

The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination; how much more when he brings it with vile motives.

"Why are all those sacrifices offered to me?" asks ADONAI. "I'm fed up with burnt offerings of rams and the fat of fattened animals! I get no pleasure from the blood of bulls, lambs and goats!

Yes, you come to appear in my presence; but who asked you to do this, to trample through my courtyards?

Stop bringing worthless grain offerings! They are like disgusting incense to me! Rosh-Hodesh, Shabbat, calling convocations - I can't stand evil together with your assemblies!

Everything in me hates your Rosh-Hodesh and your festivals; they are a burden to me - I'm tired of putting up with them!

The L'vanon would not suffice for fuel or its animals be enough for burnt offerings.

Those others might as well kill a person as an ox, as well break a dog's neck as sacrifice a lamb, as well offer pig's blood as offer a grain offering, as well bless an idol as burn incense. Just as these have chosen their ways and enjoy their disgusting practices,

What do I care about incense from Sh'va or sweet cane from a distant land? Your burnt offerings are unacceptable, your sacrifices don't please me."

Thus says ADONAI-Tzva'ot, the God of Isra'el: "You may as well eat the meat of your burnt offerings along with that of your sacrifices.

For I didn't speak to your ancestors or give them orders concerning burnt offerings or sacrifices when I brought them out of the land of Egypt.

Rather, what I did order them was this: 'Pay attention to what I say. Then I will be your God, and you will be my people. In everything, live according to the way that I order you, so that things will go well for you.'

When they fast, I will not hear their cry; when they offer burnt offerings and grain offerings, I will not accept them. Rather, I will destroy them with war, famine and disease."

For what I desire is mercy, not sacrifices, knowledge of God more than burnt offerings.