100 Bible Verses About Sacrifice
Bible verses about Sacrifice
Delve into the heart of sacrifice through the illuminating lens of scripture. Exploring Bible verses about sacrifice reveals a profound tapestry of love, obedience, and redemption. From the Old Testament offerings foreshadowing Christ's ultimate act, to the New Testament call to self-denial, understanding sacrifice unlocks a deeper connection to God's unwavering commitment to humanity. It teaches us the power of selfless giving, the beauty of laying down our own desires for a higher purpose, and the transformative grace found in emulating Christ's sacrificial love. Let these verses guide you to a richer understanding of this foundational principle of faith.
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Leviticus 5:8 (KJV)
And he shall bring them unto the priest, who shall offer that which is for the sin offering first, and wring off his head from his neck, but shall not divide it asunder:
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And he said, Let me go, I pray thee; for our family hath a sacrifice in the city; and my brother, he hath commanded me to be there: and now, if I have found favour in thine eyes, let me get away, I pray thee, and see my brethren. Therefore he cometh not unto the king’s table.
That thou mayest buy speedily with this money bullocks, rams, lambs, with their meat offerings and their drink offerings, and offer them upon the altar of the house of your God which is in Jerusalem.
And Jacob said, Sell me this day thy birthright.
And Abraham circumcised his son Isaac being eight days old, as God had commanded him.
And David answered the priest, and said unto him, Of a truth women have been kept from us about these three days, since I came out, and the vessels of the young men are holy, and the bread is in a manner common, yea, though it were sanctified this day in the vessel.
Turn again, my daughters, go your way; for I am too old to have an husband. If I should say, I have hope, if I should have an husband also to night, and should also bear sons;
Thou shalt not bring the hire of a whore, or the price of a dog, into the house of the Lord thy God for any vow: for even both these are abomination unto the Lord thy God.
And the covering of rams’ skins dyed red, and the covering of badgers’ skins, and the vail of the covering,
These also shall be unclean unto you among the creeping things that creep upon the earth; the weasel, and the mouse, and the tortoise after his kind,
And he did wash the inwards and the legs, and burnt them upon the burnt offering on the altar.
And the woman conceived, and bare a son: and when she saw him that he was a goodly child, she hid him three months.
And Aaron said unto Moses, Behold, this day have they offered their sin offering and their burnt offering before the Lord; and such things have befallen me: and if I had eaten the sin offering to day, should it have been accepted in the sight of the Lord?
But the people took of the spoil, sheep and oxen, the chief of the things which should have been utterly destroyed, to sacrifice unto the Lord thy God in Gilgal.
And if thy oblation be a meat offering baken in a pan, it shall be of fine flour unleavened, mingled with oil.
Thou shalt part it in pieces, and pour oil thereon: it is a meat offering.
And he called the name of that place Beth–el: but the name of that city was called Luz at the first.
Wherefore David said unto the Gibeonites, What shall I do for you? and wherewith shall I make the atonement, that ye may bless the inheritance of the Lord?
I will not reprove thee for thy sacrifices or thy burnt offerings, to have been continually before me.
But at the place which the Lord thy God shall choose to place his name in, there thou shalt sacrifice the passover at even, at the going down of the sun, at the season that thou camest forth out of Egypt.
Ye shall not eat one day, nor two days, nor five days, neither ten days, nor twenty days;
Thrice in the year shall all your men children appear before the Lord God, the God of Israel.
And the flesh that toucheth any unclean thing shall not be eaten; it shall be burnt with fire: and as for the flesh, all that be clean shall eat thereof.
And Aaron took as Moses commanded, and ran into the midst of the congregation; and, behold, the plague was begun among the people: and he put on incense, and made an atonement for the people.
None devoted, which shall be devoted of men, shall be redeemed; but shall surely be put to death.
And surely your blood of your lives will I require; at the hand of every beast will I require it, and at the hand of man; at the hand of every man’s brother will I require the life of man.
And his return was to Ramah; for there was his house; and there he judged Israel; and there he built an altar unto the Lord.
And whosoever toucheth her bed shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the even.
And if she be not able to bring a lamb, then she shall bring two turtles, or two young pigeons; the one for the burnt offering, and the other for a sin offering: and the priest shall make an atonement for her, and she shall be clean.
And Balaam said unto Balak, Build me here seven altars, and prepare me here seven bullocks and seven rams.
And Saul said, They have brought them from the Amalekites: for the people spared the best of the sheep and of the oxen, to sacrifice unto the Lord thy God; and the rest we have utterly destroyed.
And Aaron did so; he lighted the lamps thereof over against the candlestick, as the Lord commanded Moses.
Two hundred she goats, and twenty he goats, two hundred ewes, and twenty rams,
For thy servant became surety for the lad unto my father, saying, If I bring him not unto thee, then I shall bear the blame to my father for ever.
We will go three days’ journey into the wilderness, and sacrifice to the Lord our God, as he shall command us.
And if his oblation be a sacrifice of peace offering, if he offer it of the herd; whether it be a male or female, he shall offer it without blemish before the Lord.
And I will also take of them for priests and for Levites, saith the Lord.
And he shall cleanse the house with the blood of the bird, and with the running water, and with the living bird, and with the cedar wood, and with the hyssop, and with the scarlet:
One golden spoon of ten shekels, full of incense:
But the fat, and the kidneys, and the caul above the liver of the sin offering, he burnt upon the altar; as the Lord commanded Moses.
But the remainder of the flesh of the sacrifice on the third day shall be burnt with fire.
The wicked shall be a ransom for the righteous, and the transgressor for the upright.
And Abraham gave all that he had unto Isaac.
And on the seventh day seven bullocks, two rams, and fourteen lambs of the first year without blemish:
Howbeit the high places were not removed: the people sacrificed and burned incense still in the high places. He built the higher gate of the house of the Lord.
For Hezekiah king of Judah did give to the congregation a thousand bullocks and seven thousand sheep; and the princes gave to the congregation a thousand bullocks and ten thousand sheep: and a great number of priests sanctified themselves.
And they took every man his censer, and put fire in them, and laid incense thereon, and stood in the door of the tabernacle of the congregation with Moses and Aaron.
And whosoever offereth a sacrifice of peace offerings unto the Lord to accomplish his vow, or a freewill offering in beeves or sheep, it shall be perfect to be accepted; there shall be no blemish therein.
And whosoever toucheth one that is slain with a sword in the open fields, or a dead body, or a bone of a man, or a grave, shall be unclean seven days.
Vow, and pay unto the Lord your God: let all that be round about him bring presents unto him that ought to be feared.
Think upon me, my God, for good, according to all that I have done for this people.
As it was taken off from the bullock of the sacrifice of peace offerings: and the priest shall burn them upon the altar of the burnt offering.
And of cassia five hundred shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary, and of oil olive an hin:
But whatsoever hath a blemish, that shall ye not offer: for it shall not be acceptable for you.
And the servant brought forth jewels of silver, and jewels of gold, and raiment, and gave them to Rebekah: he gave also to her brother and to her mother precious things.
And Pharaoh charged all his people, saying, Every son that is born ye shall cast into the river, and every daughter ye shall save alive.
And he brought him into the field of Zophim, to the top of Pisgah, and built seven altars, and offered a bullock and a ram on every altar.
Keep thy foot when thou goest to the house of God, and be more ready to hear, than to give the sacrifice of fools: for they consider not that they do evil.
And the unicorns shall come down with them, and the bullocks with the bulls; and their land shall be soaked with blood, and their dust made fat with fatness.
And the priest shall burn them upon the altar: it is the food of the offering made by fire for a sweet savour: all the fat is the Lord’s.
And the Levite, (because he hath no part nor inheritance with thee,) and the stranger, and the fatherless, and the widow, which are within thy gates, shall come, and shall eat and be satisfied; that the Lord thy God may bless thee in all the work of thine hand which thou doest.
Of all clean birds ye shall eat.
And Joshua made them that day hewers of wood and drawers of water for the congregation, and for the altar of the Lord, even unto this day, in the place which he should choose.
Then ye shall sacrifice one kid of the goats for a sin offering, and two lambs of the first year for a sacrifice of peace offerings.
Then David said to Ornan, Grant me the place of this threshingfloor, that I may build an altar therein unto the Lord: thou shalt grant it me for the full price: that the plague may be stayed from the people.
Therefore said I, The Philistines will come down now upon me to Gilgal, and I have not made supplication unto the Lord: I forced myself therefore, and offered a burnt offering.
If this people go up to do sacrifice in the house of the Lord at Jerusalem, then shall the heart of this people turn again unto their lord, even unto Rehoboam king of Judah, and they shall kill me, and go again to Rehoboam king of Judah.
And his mother said unto him, Upon me be thy curse, my son: only obey my voice, and go fetch me them.
The table, and his staves, and all his vessels, and the shewbread,
For whatsoever soul it be that shall not be afflicted in that same day, he shall be cut off from among his people.
And they did eat of the old corn of the land on the morrow after the passover, unleavened cakes, and parched corn in the selfsame day.
And they kept the passover on the fourteenth day of the first month at even in the wilderness of Sinai: according to all that the Lord commanded Moses, so did the children of Israel.
One golden spoon of ten shekels, full of incense:
And Aaron shall lay both his hands upon the head of the live goat, and confess over him all the iniquities of the children of Israel, and all their transgressions in all their sins, putting them upon the head of the goat, and shall send him away by the hand of a fit man into the wilderness:
And the two kidneys, and the fat that is upon them, which is by the flanks, and the caul above the liver, with the kidneys, it shall he take away.
And he said, I may not return with thee, nor go in with thee: neither will I eat bread nor drink water with thee in this place:
Nevertheless these ye shall not eat of them that chew the cud, or of them that divide the cloven hoof; as the camel, and the hare, and the coney: for they chew the cud, but divide not the hoof; therefore they are unclean unto you.
And the bullock for the sin offering, and the goat for the sin offering, whose blood was brought in to make atonement in the holy place, shall one carry forth without the camp; and they shall burn in the fire their skins, and their flesh, and their dung.
And every creeping thing that flieth is unclean unto you: they shall not be eaten.
For they are wholly given unto me from among the children of Israel; instead of such as open every womb, even instead of the firstborn of all the children of Israel, have I taken them unto me.
And the Philistines gathered themselves together, and came and pitched in Shunem: and Saul gathered all Israel together, and they pitched in Gilboa.
And he shall bring them unto the priest, who shall offer that which is for the sin offering first, and wring off his head from his neck, but shall not divide it asunder:
And the man Elkanah, and all his house, went up to offer unto the Lord the yearly sacrifice, and his vow.
If he offer it for a thanksgiving, then he shall offer with the sacrifice of thanksgiving unleavened cakes mingled with oil, and unleavened wafers anointed with oil, and cakes mingled with oil, of fine flour, fried.
And Abraham rose up early in the morning, and saddled his ass, and took two of his young men with him, and Isaac his son, and clave the wood for the burnt offering, and rose up, and went unto the place of which God had told him.
Six days may work be done; but in the seventh is the sabbath of rest, holy to the Lord: whosoever doeth any work in the sabbath day, he shall surely be put to death.
And the hare, because he cheweth the cud, but divideth not the hoof; he is unclean unto you.
And they said, If ye send away the ark of the God of Israel, send it not empty; but in any wise return him a trespass offering: then ye shall be healed, and it shall be known to you why his hand is not removed from you.
And the priest shall take of the blood thereof with his finger, and put it upon the horns of the altar of burnt offering, and shall pour out all the blood thereof at the bottom of the altar.
Unleavened bread shall be eaten seven days; and there shall no leavened bread be seen with thee, neither shall there be leaven seen with thee in all thy quarters.
And it shall come to pass, when it is seen that Moab is weary on the high place, that he shall come to his sanctuary to pray; but he shall not prevail.
I will wash mine hands in innocency: so will I compass thine altar, O Lord:
And thou shalt cut the ram in pieces, and wash the inwards of him, and his legs, and put them unto his pieces, and unto his head.
And Moses wrote all the words of the Lord, and rose up early in the morning, and builded an altar under the hill, and twelve pillars, according to the twelve tribes of Israel.
And the meat offering thereof shall be two tenth deals of fine flour mingled with oil, an offering made by fire unto the Lord for a sweet savour: and the drink offering thereof shall be of wine, the fourth part of an hin.
And I fell down before the Lord, as at the first, forty days and forty nights: I did neither eat bread, nor drink water, because of all your sins which ye sinned, in doing wickedly in the sight of the Lord, to provoke him to anger.
Only thy holy things which thou hast, and thy vows, thou shalt take, and go unto the place which the Lord shall choose:
As the sin offering is, so is the trespass offering: there is one law for them: the priest that maketh atonement therewith shall have it.
His offering was one silver charger, the weight whereof was an hundred and thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mingled with oil for a meat offering:
And the flesh and the hide he burnt with fire without the camp.
And their meat offering and their drink offerings for the bullocks, for the rams, and for the lambs, shall be according to their number, after the manner:
Exploring Bible verses on sacrifice reveals a profound tapestry of meaning, woven with threads of obedience, love, and redemption. From the Old Testament offerings symbolizing atonement to Christ's ultimate sacrifice on the cross, these passages illuminate the core of our faith. They remind us that true sacrifice isn't merely about giving up something of value, but about surrendering our will, ego, and desires to God's greater purpose. This act of selfless devotion, mirrored in Christ's own example, becomes the pathway to spiritual growth and deeper communion with the divine. As we reflect on these verses, let us consider where we might offer a more sacrificial life, whether through service, forgiveness, or unwavering faithfulness. Embracing the spirit of sacrifice transforms us and draws us closer to the heart of God.