If<n id="1" /> you had known what this means: &#8216;<b><i>I want mercy and not sacrificei>b>,&#8217;<n id="2" /> you would not have condemned the innocent.

and to offer a sacrifice according to what is specified in the law of the Lord, <b><i>a pair of dovesi>b><n id="1" /> <b><i>or two young pigeonsi>b>.<n id="2" />p>

So when he came into the world, he said,p> <p class="otpoetry">&#8220;<i><b>Sacrifice and offering you did not desireb>, <b>but a body you prepared for meb>.i>p>

But when this priest<n id="1" /> had offered one sacrifice for sins for all time, <i>he sat down at the right handi><n id="2" /> of God,

Go and learn what this saying means: &#8216;<b><i>I want mercy and not sacrificei>b>.&#8217;<n id="1" /> For I did not come to call the righteous, but sinners.&#8221;p>

At<n id="1" /> that time<n id="2" /> they made an idol in the form of a calf,<n id="3" /> brought<n id="4" /> a sacrifice to the idol, and began rejoicing<n id="5" /> in the works of their hands.<n id="6" />

and live<n id="1" /> in love, just as Christ also loved us<n id="2" /> and gave himself for us, a sacrificial and fragrant offering<n id="3" /> to God.

For I have received everything, and I have plenty. I have all I need because I received from Epaphroditus what you sent &#8211; 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.

<t /><p class="bodytext">Therefore I exhort you, brothers and sisters,<n id="1" /> by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a sacrifice &#8211; alive, holy, and pleasing to God<n id="2" /> &#8211; which is your reasonable service.

By faith Abel offered God a greater sacrifice than Cain, and through his faith<n id="1" /> he was commended as righteous, because God commended him for his offerings. And through his faith<n id="2" /> he still speaks, though he is dead.