Bible Verses About Spiritual Sacrifices

I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service.

Core Bible passage on living sacrifice

Ye also, as lively stones, are built up a spiritual house, an holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God by Jesus Christ.

Key Bible summary for the topic

Who needeth not daily, as those high priests, to offer up sacrifice, first for his own sins, and then for the people's: for this he did once, when he offered up himself.

Christ's once-for-all sacrifice contrasts with repeated sacrifices

To what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices unto me? saith the LORD: I am full of the burnt offerings of rams, and the fat of fed beasts; and I delight not in the blood of bullocks, or of lambs, or of he goats.

Prophetic rejection of offerings

Above when he said, Sacrifice and offering and burnt offerings and offering for sin thou wouldest not, neither hadst pleasure therein; which are offered by the law;

Hebrews says the law's offerings are not the final thing

By him therefore let us offer the sacrifice of praise to God continually, that is, the fruit of our lips giving thanks to his name.

Sacrifice of praise supports liturgical offering language.

For every high priest is ordained to offer gifts and sacrifices: wherefore it is of necessity that this man have somewhat also to offer.

Priest must have something to offer, but in Hebrews context.

Offer unto God thanksgiving; and pay thy vows unto the most High:

Thanksgiving sacrifice.

I will offer to thee the sacrifice of thanksgiving, and will call upon the name of the LORD.

Thanksgiving sacrifice.

I will freely sacrifice unto thee: I will praise thy name, O LORD; for it is good.

Freely sacrifice praise.

And let them sacrifice the sacrifices of thanksgiving, and declare his works with rejoicing.

Psalm language used for thanksgiving sacrifice

For every high priest taken from among men is ordained for men in things pertaining to God, that he may offer both gifts and sacrifices for sins:

Christ the priest offers something else

Neither yield ye your members as instruments of unrighteousness unto sin: but yield yourselves unto God, as those that are alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness unto God.

Supports offering oneself to God as righteous living.

Whoso offereth praise glorifieth me: and to him that ordereth his conversation aright will I shew the salvation of God.

Thanksgiving glorifies God.

And the priest shall take from the meat offering a memorial thereof, and shall burn it upon the altar: it is an offering made by fire, of a sweet savour unto the LORD.

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And walk in love, as Christ also hath loved us, and hath given himself for us an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweetsmelling savour.

Christ's offering as fragrant sacrifice.

I will offer unto thee burnt sacrifices of fatlings, with the incense of rams; I will offer bullocks with goats. Selah.

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Then shalt thou be pleased with the sacrifices of righteousness, with burnt offering and whole burnt offering: then shall they offer bullocks upon thine altar.

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And offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving with leaven, and proclaim and publish the free offerings: for this liketh you, O ye children of Israel, saith the Lord GOD.

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And thou shalt bring the meat offering that is made of these things unto the LORD: and when it is presented unto the priest, he shall bring it unto the altar.

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I will praise the name of God with a song, and will magnify him with thanksgiving.

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Remember all thy offerings, and accept thy burnt sacrifice; Selah.

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The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit: a broken and a contrite heart, O God, thou wilt not despise.

Clear verse about inward sacrifice

I speak after the manner of men because of the infirmity of your flesh: for as ye have yielded your members servants to uncleanness and to iniquity unto iniquity; even so now yield your members servants to righteousness unto holiness.

Supports presenting members to righteousness.

And will make an offering by fire unto the LORD, a burnt offering, or a sacrifice in performing a vow, or in a freewill offering, or in your solemn feasts, to make a sweet savour unto the LORD, of the herd or of the flock:

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This is the offering of Aaron and of his sons, which they shall offer unto the LORD in the day when he is anointed; the tenth part of an ephah of fine flour for a meat offering perpetual, half of it in the morning, and half thereof at night.

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If his offering be a burnt sacrifice of the herd, let him offer a male without blemish: he shall offer it of his own voluntary will at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation before the LORD.

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And every offering of all the holy things of the children of Israel, which they bring unto the priest, shall be his.

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And thou shalt offer them before the LORD, and the priests shall cast salt upon them, and they shall offer them up for a burnt offering unto the LORD.

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And of it he shall offer one out of the whole oblation for an heave offering unto the LORD, and it shall be the priest's that sprinkleth the blood of the peace offerings.

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And the priest of his sons that is anointed in his stead shall offer it: it is a statute for ever unto the LORD; it shall be wholly burnt.

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For the bodies of those beasts, whose blood is brought into the sanctuary by the high priest for sin, are burned without the camp.

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Yea, and if I be offered upon the sacrifice and service of your faith, I joy, and rejoice with you all.

Paul's sacrifice and service of faith language.

Who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify unto himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works.

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Not slothful in business; fervent in spirit; serving the Lord;

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