Bible Verses About Formalism

I wil not reproue thee for thy sacrifices, or thy burnt offerings, that haue not bene continually before me.

I will take no bullocke out of thine house, nor goates out of thy foldes.

For all the beastes of the forest are mine, and the beastes on a thousand mountaines.

I knowe all the foules on the mountaines: and the wilde beastes of the fielde are mine.

If I bee hungry, I will not tell thee: for the world is mine, and all that therein is.

Will I eate the flesh of bulles? or drinke the blood of goates?

Offer vnto God praise, and pay thy vowes vnto the most High,

And call vpon me in the day of trouble: so will I deliuer thee, and thou shalt glorifie me.

For thou desirest no sacrifice, though I would giue it: thou delitest not in burnt offering.

The sacrifices of God are a contrite spirit: a contrite and a broken heart, O God, thou wilt not despise.

I will praise the Name of God with a song, and magnifie him with thankesgiuing.

This also shall please the Lord better then a yong bullocke, that hath hornes and hoofes.

What haue I to doe with the multitude of your sacrifices, sayth the Lord? I am full of the burnt offerings of rams, and of the fat of fed beasts: and I desire not the blood of bullocks, nor of lambs, nor of goates.

When ye come to appeare before me, who required this of your hands to tread in my courts?

Bring no more oblations, in vaine: incense is an abomination vnto me: I can not suffer your newe moones, nor Sabbaths, nor solemne dayes (it is iniquitie) nor solemne assemblies.

My soule hateth your newe moones and your appointed feastes: they are a burden vnto me: I am weary to beare them.

And when you shall stretch out your hands, I wil hide mine eyes from you: and though ye make many prayers, I wil not heare: for your hands are full of blood.

Therefore the Lord sayd, Because this people come neere vnto me with their mouth, and honour me with their lips, but haue remooued their heart farre from me, and their feare toward me was taught by the precept of men,

Therefore behold, I wil againe doe a marueilous worke in this people, euen a marueilous worke, and a wonder: for the wisdome of their wise men shall perish, and the vnderstanding of their prudent men shalbe hid.

Wo vnto them that seeke deepe to hide their counsell from the Lord: for their workes are in darkenes, and they say, Who seeth vs? and who knoweth vs?

Your turning of deuises shall it not be esteemed as the potters clay? for shall the worke say of him that made it, Hee made me not? or the thing formed, say of him that facioned it, He had none vnderstanding?

I hate and abhorre your feast dayes, and I wil not smelll in your solemne assemblies.

Though ye offer me burnt offrings and meat offrings, I wil not accept them: neither will I regard the peace offrings of your fat beasts.

Take thou away from me the multitude of thy songs (for I wil not heare the melodie of thy violes)

Wherewith shall I come before the Lord, and bowe my selfe before the hie God? Shall I come before him with burnt offrings, and with calues of a yeere olde?