Bible Verses About Offerings: Unavailing when not accompanied by piety

And Samuel saide, Hath the Lord as great pleasure in burnt offerings and sacrifices, as when the voyce of the Lord is obeyed? beholde, to obey is better then sacrifice, and to hearken is better then the fatte of rammes.

Sacrifice and offering thou didest not desire: (for mine eares hast thou prepared) burnt offring and sinne offering hast thou not required.

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,

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.

To doe iustice and iudgement is more acceptable to the Lord then sacrifice.

The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination: how much more when he bringeth it with a wicked minde?

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 Lebanon is not sufficient for fire, nor the beastes thereof sufficient for a burnt offering.

He that killeth a bullocke, is as if he slewe a man: he that sacrificeth a sheepe, as if he cut off a dogges necke: he that offereth an oblation, as if he offered swines blood: he that remembreth incense, as if he blessed an idole: yea, they haue chosen their owne wayes, and their soule deliteth in their abominations.

To what purpose bringest thou mee incense from Sheba, and sweete calamus from a farre countrey? Your burnt offerings are not pleasant, nor your sacrifices sweete vnto me.

Thus sayth the Lord of hostes, the God of Israel, Put your burnt offerings vnto your sacrifices, and eat the flesh.

For I spake not vnto your fathers, nor commanded them, when I brought them out of the land of Egypt, concerning burnt offrings and sacrifices.

But this thing commanded I them, saying, Obey my voyce, and I will be your God, and yee shalbe my people: and walke yee in all the wayes which I haue commanded you, that it may be well vnto you.

When they fast, I will not heare their cry, and when they offer burnt offering, and an oblation, I will not accept them: but I will consume them by the sworde, and by the famine and by the pestilence.

For I desired mercie, and not sacrifice, and the knowledge of God more then burnt offrings.