Bible Verses About Sacrifices

For every high priest is appointed to offer gifts and sacrifices: wherefore it is necessary that he also should have some thing to offer.

Which is a parable of the time present: according to which gifts and sacrifices are offered, which cannot, as to the conscience, make him perfect that serveth, only in meats and in drinks,

For if the blood of goats and of oxen, and the ashes of an heifer, being sprinkled, sanctify such as are defiled, to the cleansing of the flesh:

For when every commandment of the law had been read by Moses to all the people, he took the blood of calves and goats, with water, and scarlet wool and hyssop, and sprinkled both the book itself and all the people.

Saying: This is the blood of the testament which God hath enjoined unto you.

And almost all things, according to the law, are cleansed with blood: and without shedding of blood there is no remission.

For the law, having a shadow of the good things to come, not the very image of the things, by the selfsame sacrifices which they offer continually every year, can never make the comers thereunto perfect.

For then they would have ceased to be offered: because the worshippers once cleansed should have no conscience of sin any longer.

But in them there is made a commemoration of sins every year:

For it is impossible that with the blood of oxen and goats sin should be taken away.

Wherefore, when he cometh into the world he saith: Sacrifice and oblation thou wouldest not: but a body thou hast fitted to me.

Holocausts for sin did not please thee.

Then said I: Behold I come: in the head of the book it is written of me: that I should do thy will, O God.

In saying before, Sacrifices, and oblations, and holocausts for sin thou wouldest not, neither are they pleasing to thee, which are offered according to the law.

Then said I: Behold, I come to do thy will, O God: He taketh away the first, that he may establish that which followeth.

In the which will, we are sanctified by the oblation of the body of Jesus Christ once.

And every priest indeed standeth daily ministering and often offering the same sacrifices which can never take away sins.

But this man, offering one sacrifice for sins, for ever sitteth on the right hand of God,

By faith Abel offered to God a sacrifice exceeding that of Cain, by which he obtained a testimony that he was just, God giving testimony to his gifts. And by it he being dead yet speaketh.

By faith Abraham, when he was tried, offered Isaac: and he that had received the promises offered up his only begotten son,

By faith he celebrated the pasch and the shedding of the blood: that he who destroyed the firstborn might not touch them.

By him therefore let us offer the sacrifice of praise always to God, that is to say, the fruit of lips confessing to his name.

And do not forget to do good and to impart: for by such sacrifices God's favour is obtained.