Sentences with phrase «offer sacrifice for»

Hebrews and the Law itself both recognise Old Testament priests had first to offer sacrifice for their own sin, before they could begin to offer sacrifice for the people.

Job is declared to be the one who can offer sacrifice for others.

You have never clarified what you call yourself and the fact that although you call Christians wanting to get off easy haven't said how you offer a sacrifice for sin.

In the fourth century St Ambrose wrote that the priest must «offer sacrifice for the people».

In her diary she describes her appearance before the governor:» [He] said, «Have pity on your father's grey head; have pity on your infant son; offer sacrifice for the emperor's welfare.»

It tells many of you who want to offer sacrifices for the good of the church — countless hours of volunteer service as elders and deacons or a lifetime in demanding and low - paid pastoral ministries — that your life choices are so much more sinful than the rest of ours that we've had to erect special barriers to keep you from laying your gifts at the altar.

But Faust is a sympathetic nature, he loves existence, his soul is acquainted with no envy, he perceives that he is unable to check the raging he is well able to arouse, he desires no Herostratic honor — he keeps silent, he hides the doubt in his soul more carefully than the girl who hides under her heart the fruit of a sinful love, he endeavors as well as he can to walk in step with other men, but what goes on within him he consumes within himself, and thus he offers himself a sacrifice for the universal.

Judas Maccabeus considered offering sacrifice for those who had died was a «holy and pious thought» (2 Macc.

The early church used many metaphors to suggest this: Jesus in his death offered a sacrifice for our sins which we were not able or worthy to offer; he paid a debt we could not discharge; or took on himself a penalty we could not pay.

Not exact matches

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HUMAN SACRIFICE Genesis 22:2,10 And he said, Take now thy son, thine only son Isaac, whom thou lovest, and... offer him there for a burnt offering....

This can be verified in Jerimiah 7:21, as well as by noting that G - d reduced access to sacrifices all through the entire Tanach; originally each man was a priest in his own home, offering sacrifices whenever and wherever (Cain, Abel, Abraham), but at Mt. Sinai it was reduced to a single place (the tabernacle / temple) and to assigned priests; this was fine for 40 years of wandering, but as soon as they entered «the promised land», the tabernacle traveled with the army, and those left behind as settlers in the new land had no more access to it.

-- there is no «price» (again American Christian reference, not biblical); «his agents»: if you mean the Holy Spirit and / or Christ then since those are God then it's just the worship of God because you DESIRE to worship Him not as if there was anything any of us could offer that would be reciprocal for Christ's sacrifice.

The entire economy of the city of Jerusalem was built on temple activities, bathing before the offerings for a fee, dressing for going to the temple, for a fee, buying the offerings, for a fee, paying the priests, temple entrance fees, food prep fees, growing and feeding the animals for the sacrifices, being paid for them, in the thousands and thousands at festival times, ALL in Jewish currency only, which was required for their rituals, and most people used Roman currency for their civil affairs.

12 But when Christ had offered for all time a single sacrifice for sins, he sat down at the right hand of God, 13 waiting from that time until his enemies should be made a footstool for his feet.

«For since the law has but a shadow of the good things to come instead of the true form of these realities, it can never, by the same sacrifices that are continually offered every year, make perfect those who draw near.

The sacrifices we make for spouses and children can be among the best reflections we can offer of the perfect sacrifice of Golgotha.

Exd 20:24 An altar of earth you shall make for me and sacrifice on it your burnt offerings and your peace offerings, your sheep and your oxen.

The grace of the father in heaven is the offering of his son Jesus as a sacrifice for us all.

Jesus came her to die for our sins, and God made the ultimate sacrifice when he offered up his one and only son.

But when Christ had offered for all time a single sacrifice...

It means to see the suffering we go through (whether we want it or not) from the perspective of Christ, Paul, Peter, and countless people who suffered for the sake of their faith and offered their suffering to God as a sacrifice on behalf of others.

«The Eucharist is the heart and the summit of the Church's life, for in it Christ associates his Church and all her members with his sacrifice of praise and thanksgiving offered once for all on the cross to his Father; by this sacrifice he pours out the graces of salvation on his Body which is the Church.»

So now take seven bulls and seven rams and go to my servant Job and sacrifice a burnt offering for yourselves.

If it's Zeus, you will be cast into Hades for not offering the proper sacrifices.

Rather than wait for his authorisation, Saul offered the sacrifices himself.

28 But if someone says to you, «This has been offered in sacrifice,» then do not eat it, both for the sake of the one who told you and for the sake of conscience.

Saul justified his fatal decision by blaming Samuel for being late and then claiming he had felt «compelled» to offer the sacrifice (1 Samuel 13:12).

Yet the same messenger told the children that souls were going to hell because there was no one to offer prayers or make sacrifices for them.

17 Then Naaman said, «If not, I pray you, let there be given to your servant two mules» burden of earth; for henceforth your servant will not offer burnt offering or sacrifice to any God but the Lord.

1 Samuel 15:22 22 But Samuel replied: «Does the Lord delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices Jeremiah 7:22 22 For when I brought your ancestors out of Egypt and spoke to them, I did not just give them commands about burnt offerings and sacrifices

As our subst.itute, «He Himself bore our sins in His body on the cross, so that we might die to sin and live to righteousness» (1 Peter 2:24); «He, having offered one sacrifice for sins for all time, sat down at the right hand of God» (Hebrews 10:12; cf. Ephesians 1:7; 4:32; 1 John 2:1 — 2).

and second, the approach to God by way of animal offerings had been so central in Judaism that, while the sacrifices were always accompanied by supplications, they had competed with personal prayer, had furnished for many people a public substitute for it, so that when the bloody altars were gone a devout rabbi could mingle his exaltation of private communion with the lament «We have nothing to bring but prayer.»

A more moving portrayal of the meaning of child sacrifice to a good father could hardly have been written than this story furnishes; the profound loyalty involved in child sacrifice, holding nothing back that religious obligation might require, is recognized; and the story's obvious objective is reached when «Abraham lifted up his eyes, and looked, and, behold, behind him a ram caught in the thicket by his horns: and Abraham went and took the ram, and offered him up for a burnt - offering in the stead of his son.»

The Thirty - Nine Articles of the Church of England still state: «Wherefore the sacrifice of Masses, in which it was commonly said, that the Priest did offer Christ for the [living] and the dead, were blasphemous fables, and dangerous deceits.»

[53] The early Church understood Malachi as prophesying the sacrifice of the Mass, which would supersede the Temple sacrifice and would be offered for all time across the whole world.

I can understand the admiration for someone willing to make that sacrifice, as with our fallen veterns, but if given a choice I would not have them do it for me, and since I am a veteran, I made the very same offer of sacrifice.

For thou delightest not in sacrifice, else would I give it; Thou hast no pleasure in burnt - offering.

It was also a thanksgiving sacrifice as well as a meal for the priests who offered it.

Tacia that is true one of my favorite verses is if we love him we will obey him thats how we express our love for him he does nt want sacrifice he wants obedience but not out of fear of judgement but because we love him with all our hearts and want to do all we can to show that we appreciate what he has done for us.The woman who offered the few mites gave everything she had the rich people gave out of there abundance.Big difference it wasnt the value it was the attitude she gave her all to God and God honored her.The verse that comes to mind that sums it all up that we are to love the Lord with all our hearts mind soul and strength and love our neighbours as ourselves.brentnz

Two new kinds of sacrifice of major importance were added after the Exile the trespass - offering, a sacrifice of restitution either for wrong done to man or as tribute due to Yahweh, and the sin - offering, an expiation for the unwitting guilt of the people.

She criticizes the Anglican Lambeth conference statement for its «vestigial Augustinianism» in the exaltation of sexual abstinence, and suggests that the bishops regard abstinence as an offering pleasing to God because it sacrifices a human pleasure.

[36] Temple sacrifice is no longer needed because it has been fulfilled by Christ, Who «offered for all time a single sacrifice for sins».

To support their interpretation Protestants tend to fall back on Hebrews Chapter 10, in which the author writes that Jesus «has offered one single sacrifice for sins».

Hebrews offers us an album of snapshots of a love life offered as a sacrifice of gratitude to God, whose Christ has already given himself up for us as a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God (Eph.

[28] And the prophet Hosea says: «For I desire steadfast love and not sacrifice, the knowledge of God, rather than burnt offerings.»

But he is no zealot, eager to practice child - sacrifice or insensitive to the horror involved; this we learn from the austere, steady, and dignified way he proceeds, as indicated by the simplicity, compactness, and austerity of the verbs used to recount his actions: He arose, saddled (his ass), took (two youths with him and Isaac his son), cleaved (wood for the burnt - offering), rose up and went.

God was represented by one of the ancient rabbis as saying, «When they read before me the laws about sacrifices, I will impute it to them as if they offered the sacrifices before me, and will have mercy upon them for all their misdeeds.»

[27] Psalm 51 puts it like this: «For in sacrifice You take no delight / Burnt offering from me You would refuse / My sacrifice a contrite spirit / A humble, contrite heart You will not spurn.»