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.

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,

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

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.

Through him then let us continually offer up a sacrifice of praise to God, that is, the fruit of our lips, acknowledging his name.

Therefore I exhort you, brothers and sisters, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a sacrifice – alive, holy, and pleasing to God – which is your reasonable service.

By faith Abel offered God a greater sacrifice than Cain, and through his faith he was commended as righteous, because God commended him for his offerings. And through his faith he still speaks, though he is dead.