woe
ZEFANIABIBLE_BIBLE_BOOK_NAME_40 23:13
"But woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! You lock up the kingdom of heaven from people. For you don't go in, and you don't allow those entering to go in.
ZEFANIABIBLE_BIBLE_BOOK_NAME_40 23:23
"Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! You pay a tenth of mint, dill, and cumin, yet you have neglected the more important matters of the law-- justice, mercy, and faith. These things should have been done without neglecting the others.
ZEFANIABIBLE_BIBLE_BOOK_NAME_40 23:27
"Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! You are like whitewashed tombs, which appear beautiful on the outside, but inside are full of dead men's bones and every impurity.
for
ZEFANIABIBLE_BIBLE_BOOK_NAME_42 18:12
I fast twice a week; I give a tenth of everything I get.'
and pass
ZEFANIABIBLE_BIBLE_BOOK_NAME_5 10:12
"And now, Israel, what does the LORD your God ask of you except to fear the LORD your God by walking in all His ways, to love Him, and to worship the LORD your God with all your heart and all your soul?
ZEFANIABIBLE_BIBLE_BOOK_NAME_5 10:13
Keep the LORD's commands and statutes I am giving you today, for your own good.
ZEFANIABIBLE_BIBLE_BOOK_NAME_9 15:22
Then Samuel said: Does the LORD take pleasure in burnt offerings and sacrifices as much as in obeying the LORD? Look: to obey is better than sacrifice, to pay attention [is better] than the fat of rams.
ZEFANIABIBLE_BIBLE_BOOK_NAME_20 21:3
Doing what is righteous and just is more acceptable to the LORD than sacrifice.
ZEFANIABIBLE_BIBLE_BOOK_NAME_23 1:10-17
10
Hear the word of the LORD, you rulers of Sodom! Listen to the instruction of our God, you people of Gomorrah!
11
"What are all your sacrifices to Me?" asks the LORD. "I have had enough of burnt offerings and rams and the fat of well-fed cattle; I have no desire for the blood of bulls, lambs, or male goats.
12
When you come to appear before Me, who requires this from you-- [this] trampling of My courts?
13
Stop bringing useless offerings. I despise [your] incense. New Moons and Sabbaths, and the calling of solemn assemblies-- I cannot stand iniquity with a festival.
14
I hate your New Moons and prescribed festivals. They have become a burden to Me; I am tired of putting up with [them].
15
When you lift up your hands [in prayer], I will refuse to look at you; even if you offer countless prayers, I will not listen. Your hands are covered with blood.
16
"Wash yourselves. Cleanse yourselves. Remove your evil deeds from My sight. Stop doing evil.
17
Learn to do what is good. Seek justice. Correct the oppressor. Defend the rights of the fatherless. Plead the widow's cause.
ZEFANIABIBLE_BIBLE_BOOK_NAME_23 58:2-6
2
They seek Me day after day and delight to know My ways, like a nation that does what is right and does not abandon the justice of their God. They ask Me for righteous judgments; they delight in the nearness of God."
3
"Why have we fasted, but You have not seen? We have denied ourselves, but You haven't noticed!" "Look, you do as you please on the day of your fast, and oppress all your workers.
4
You fast [with] contention and strife to strike viciously with [your] fist. You cannot fast as [you do] today, [hoping] to make your voice heard on high.
5
Will the fast I choose be like this: A day for a person to deny himself, to bow his head like a reed, and to spread out sackcloth and ashes? Will you call this a fast and a day acceptable to the LORD?
6
Isn't the fast I choose: To break the chains of wickedness, to untie the ropes of the yoke, to set the oppressed free, and to tear off every yoke?
ZEFANIABIBLE_BIBLE_BOOK_NAME_24 7:2-10
2
"Stand in the gate of the house of the LORD and there call out this word: Hear the word of the LORD, all [you people] of Judah who enter through these gates to worship the LORD.
3
"This is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: Correct your ways and your deeds, and I will allow you to live in this place.
4
Do not trust deceitful words, chanting: This is the temple of the LORD, the temple of the LORD, the temple of the LORD.
5
Instead, if you really change your ways and your actions, if you act justly toward one another,
6
if you no longer oppress the alien, the fatherless, and the widow and no longer shed innocent blood in this place or follow other gods, bringing harm on yourselves,
7
I will allow you to live in this place, the land I gave to your ancestors forever and ever.
8
[But] look, you keep trusting in deceitful words that cannot help.
9
"Do you steal, murder, commit adultery, swear falsely, burn incense to Baal, and follow other gods that you have not known?
10
Then do you come and stand before Me in this house called by My name and insist: We are safe? As a result, you are free to continue doing all these detestable acts!
ZEFANIABIBLE_BIBLE_BOOK_NAME_24 7:21
This is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: "Add your burnt offerings to your other sacrifices, and eat the meat yourselves,
ZEFANIABIBLE_BIBLE_BOOK_NAME_24 7:22
for when I brought your ancestors out of the land of Egypt, I did not speak with them or command them concerning burnt offering and sacrifice.
ZEFANIABIBLE_BIBLE_BOOK_NAME_33 6:8
He has told you men what is good and what it is the LORD requires of you: Only to act justly, to love faithfulness, and to walk humbly with your God.
ZEFANIABIBLE_BIBLE_BOOK_NAME_39 1:6
"A son honors [his] father, and a servant his master. But if I am a father, where is My honor? And if I am a master, where is [your] fear of Me? says the LORD of Hosts to you priests, who despise My name." Yet you ask: "How have we despised Your name?"
ZEFANIABIBLE_BIBLE_BOOK_NAME_39 2:17
You have wearied the LORD with your words. Yet you ask, "How have we wearied [Him]?" When you say, "Everyone who does evil is good in the LORD's sight, and He is pleased with them," or "Where is the God of justice?"
ZEFANIABIBLE_BIBLE_BOOK_NAME_43 5:42
but I know you-- that you have no love for God within you.
ZEFANIABIBLE_BIBLE_BOOK_NAME_56 2:11
For the grace of God has appeared, with salvation for all people,
ZEFANIABIBLE_BIBLE_BOOK_NAME_56 2:12
instructing us to deny godlessness and worldly lusts and to live in a sensible, righteous, and godly way in the present age,
ZEFANIABIBLE_BIBLE_BOOK_NAME_62 4:20
If anyone says, "I love God," yet hates his brother, he is a liar. For the person who does not love his brother whom he has seen cannot love God whom he has not seen.
and not
ZEFANIABIBLE_BIBLE_BOOK_NAME_3 27:30-33
30
"Every tenth of the land's produce, grain from the soil or fruit from the trees, belongs to the LORD; it is holy to the LORD.
31
If a man decides to redeem any part of this tenth, he must add one-fifth to its value.
32
Every tenth animal from the herd or flock, which passes under the [shepherd's] rod, will be holy to the LORD.
33
He is not to inspect whether it is good or bad, and he is not to make a substitution for it. But if he does make a substitution, both the animal and its substitute will be holy; they cannot be redeemed."
ZEFANIABIBLE_BIBLE_BOOK_NAME_14 31:5-10
5
When the word spread, the Israelites gave liberally of the best of the grain, wine, oil, honey, and of all the produce of the field, and they brought an abundant tenth of everything.
6
As for the Israelites and Judahites who lived in the cities of Judah, they also [brought] a tenth of the cattle and sheep, and a tenth of the dedicated things that were consecrated to the LORD their God. They gathered [them] into large piles.
7
In the third month they began building up the piles, and they finished in the seventh month.
8
When Hezekiah and his officials came and viewed the piles, they praised the LORD and His people Israel.
9
Hezekiah asked the priests and Levites about the piles.
10
Azariah, the chief priest of the household of Zadok, answered him, "Since they began bringing the offering to the LORD's temple, we eat and are satisfied and there is plenty left over because the LORD has blessed His people; this abundance is what is left over."
ZEFANIABIBLE_BIBLE_BOOK_NAME_16 10:37
We will bring [a loaf] from our first batch of dough to the priests at the storerooms of the house of our God. We will also bring the firstfruits of our [grain] offerings, of every fruit tree, and of the new wine and oil. A tenth of our land's [produce] from our lands belongs to the Levites, for the Levites are to collect the one-tenth offering in all our agricultural towns.
ZEFANIABIBLE_BIBLE_BOOK_NAME_21 7:18
It is good that you grasp the one and do not let the other slip from your hand. For the one who fears God will end up with both of them.
ZEFANIABIBLE_BIBLE_BOOK_NAME_39 3:8
"Will a man rob God? Yet you are robbing Me!" You ask: "How do we rob You?" "[By not making the payments] of 10 percent and the contributions.
