Entering harsh territory.....Numbers 15

If we had liberty to leave out a few chapters from the Bible these next ones would be high on the list.

Chapter 15 starts out well explaining the sacrifices...

Note: Later God says both our filthy sacrifices he does not desire.

Psa 51:16    For thou desirest not sacrifice; else would I give it: thou delightest not in burnt offering.

Psa 51:17    The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit: a broken and a contrite heart, O God, thou wilt not despise.

Isa 1:9    Except the LORD of hosts had left unto us a very small remnant, we should have been as Sodom, and we should have been like unto Gomorrah.

Isa 1:10    Hear the word of the LORD, ye rulers of Sodom; give ear unto the law of our God, ye people of Gomorrah.

Isa 1:11    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.

Hos 8:11    Because Ephraim hath made many altars to sin, altars shall be unto him to sin.

Hos 8:12    I have written to him the great things of my law, but they were counted as a strange thing.

Hos 8:13    They sacrifice flesh for the sacrifices of mine offerings, and eat it; but the LORD accepteth them not; now will he remember their iniquity, and visit their sins: they shall return to Egypt.

Hos 8:14    For Israel hath forgotten his Maker, and buildeth temples; and Judah hath multiplied fenced cities: but I will send a fire upon his cities, and it shall devour the palaces thereof.

Psa 4:5    Offer the sacrifices of righteousness, and put your trust in the LORD.

Heb 10:1    For the law having a shadow of good things to come, and not the very image of the things, can never with those sacrifices which they offered year by year continually make the comers thereunto perfect.

Heb 10:2    For then would they not have ceased to be offered? because that the worshippers once purged should have had no more conscience of sins.

Heb 10:3    But in those sacrifices there is a remembrance again made of sins every year.

Heb 10:4    For it is not possible that the blood of bulls and of goats should take away sins.

Heb 10:5    Wherefore when he cometh into the world, he saith, Sacrifice and offering thou wouldest not, but a body hast thou prepared me:

Heb 10:6    In burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin thou hast had no pleasure.

Heb 10:7    Then said I, Lo, I come (in the volume of the book it is written of me,) to do thy will, O God.

Heb 10:8    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;

Heb 10:9    Then said he, Lo, I come to do thy will, O God. He taketh away the first, that he may establish the second.

Heb 10:10    By the which will we are sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ oncefor all.

Heb 10:11    And every priest standeth daily ministering and offering oftentimes the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins:

Heb 10:12    But this man, after he had offered one sacrifice for sins for ever, sat down on the right hand of God;

Heb 10:13    From henceforth expecting till his enemies be made his footstool.

Heb 10:14    For by one offering he hath perfected for ever them that are sanctified.

Heb 10:15    Whereof the Holy Ghost also is a witness to us: for after that he had said before,

Heb 10:16    This is the covenant that I will make with them after those days, saith the Lord, I will put my laws into their hearts, and in their minds will I write them;

Heb 10:17    And their sins and iniquities will I remember no more.

Heb 10:18    Now where remission of these is, there is no more offering for sin.

Heb 10:19    Having therefore, brethren, boldness to enter into the holiest by the blood of Jesus,

Heb 10:20    By a new and living way, which he hath consecrated for us, through the veil, that is to say, his flesh;

Heb 10:21    And having an high priest over the house of God;

Heb 10:22    Let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and our bodies washed with pure water.

Rom 12:1    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.

Rom 12:2    And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.