If you had known what this means: ‘I want mercy and not sacrifice,’ you would not have condemned the innocent.

and to offer a sacrifice according to what is specified in the law of the Lord, a pair of doves or two young pigeons.

Look at the people of Israel. Are not those who eat the sacrifices partners in the altar?

But even if I am being poured out like a drink offering on the sacrifice and service of your faith, I am glad and rejoice together with all of you.

So when he came into the world, he said, “Sacrifice and offering you did not desire, but a body you prepared for me.

But when this priest had offered one sacrifice for sins for all time, he sat down at the right hand of God,

For if we deliberately keep on sinning after receiving the knowledge of the truth, no further sacrifice for sins is left for us,

And do not neglect to do good and to share what you have, for God is pleased with such sacrifices.

Go and learn what this saying means: ‘I want mercy and not sacrifice.’ For I did not come to call the righteous, but sinners.”

Now there were some present on that occasion who told him about the Galileans whose blood Pilate had mixed with their sacrifices.

At that time they made an idol in the form of a calf, brought a sacrifice to the idol, and began rejoicing in the works of their hands.

and live in love, just as Christ also loved us and gave himself for us, a sacrificial and fragrant offering to God.

For I have received everything, and I have plenty. I have all I need because I received from Epaphroditus what you sent – a fragrant offering, an acceptable sacrifice, very pleasing to God.

For every high priest is taken from among the people and appointed to represent them before God, to offer both gifts and sacrifices for sins.

For every high priest is appointed to offer both gifts and sacrifices. So this one too had to have something to offer.

This was a symbol for the time then present, when gifts and sacrifices were offered that could not perfect the conscience of the worshiper.

So it was necessary for the sketches of the things in heaven to be purified with these sacrifices, but the heavenly things themselves required better sacrifices than these.

for then he would have had to suffer again and again since the foundation of the world. But now he has appeared once for all at the consummation of the ages to put away sin by his sacrifice.

When he says above, “Sacrifices and offerings and whole burnt offerings and sin-offerings you did not desire nor did you take delight in them” (which are offered according to the law),

And every priest stands day after day serving and offering the same sacrifices again and again – sacrifices that can never take away sins.