Deuteronomy 15:16

Jesus said to them, “My food is to do the will of him who sent me and to accomplish his work.

I have hidden your word in my heart, that I might not sin against you.

but his delight is in Yahweh’s law. On his law he meditates day and night.

“But this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days,” says Yahweh: “I will put my law in their inward parts, and I will write it in their heart. I will be their God, and they shall be my people.

Samuel said, “Has Yahweh as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices, as in obeying Yahweh’s voice? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to listen than the fat of rams.

For you don’t delight in sacrifice, or else I would give it. You have no pleasure in burnt offering.

Indeed your statutes are my delight, and my counselors.

I will delight myself in your commandments, because I love them.

Unless your law had been my delight, I would have perished in my affliction.

Your words were found, and I ate them. Your words were to me a joy and the rejoicing of my heart, for I am called by your name, Yahweh, God of Armies.

For I delight in God’s law after the inward man,

Let your Kingdom come. Let your will be done on earth as it is in heaven.

saying, “Father, if you are willing, remove this cup from me. Nevertheless, not my will, but yours, be done.”

These words, which I command you today, shall be on your heart;

Then he opens the ears of men, and seals their instruction,

The law of his God is in his heart. None of his steps shall slide.

I will delight myself in your statutes. I will not forget your word.

“What are the multitude of your sacrifices to me?”, says Yahweh. “I have had enough of the burnt offerings of rams and the fat of fed animals. I don’t delight in the blood of bulls, or of lambs, or of male goats.

To what purpose does frankincense from Sheba come to me, and the sweet cane from a far country? Your burnt offerings are not acceptable, and your sacrifices are not pleasing to me.”

He said to them, “Why were you looking for me? Didn’t you know that I must be in my Father’s house?”

For this is the will of God: your sanctification, that you abstain from sexual immorality,

then his master shall bring him to God, and shall bring him to the door or to the doorpost, and his master shall bore his ear through with an awl, and he shall serve him forever.

Praise Yah! Blessed is the man who fears Yahweh, who delights greatly in his commandments.

Let them not depart from your eyes. Keep them in the center of your heart.

Lebanon is not sufficient to burn, nor its animals sufficient for a burnt offering.

Yes, though you offer me your burnt offerings and meal offerings, I will not accept them; neither will I regard the peace offerings of your fat animals.

being revealed that you are a letter of Christ, served by us, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God; not in tablets of stone, but in tablets that are hearts of flesh.

He took and put the covenant into the ark, and set the poles on the ark, and put the mercy seat above on the ark.

“ ‘If his offering is a burnt offering from the herd, he shall offer a male without defect. He shall offer it at the door of the Tent of Meeting, that he may be accepted before Yahweh.

He shall kill the lamb of the trespass offering. The priest shall take some of the blood of the trespass offering and put it on the tip of the right ear of him who is to be cleansed, and on the thumb of his right hand, and on the big toe of his right foot.

“ ‘In the beginnings of your months, you shall offer a burnt offering to Yahweh: two young bulls, one ram, seven male lambs a year old without defect,

“ ‘On the second day you shall offer twelve young bulls, two rams, and fourteen male lambs a year old without defect;

He said to him, “Far from it; you will not die. Behold, my father does nothing either great or small, but that he discloses it to me. Why would my father hide this thing from me? It is not so.”

For you, Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel, have revealed to your servant, saying, ‘I will build you a house.’ Therefore your servant has found in his heart to pray this prayer to you.

He also opens their ears to instruction, and commands that they return from iniquity.

Yahweh’s precepts are right, rejoicing the heart. Yahweh’s commandment is pure, enlightening the eyes.

Sacrifice and offering you didn’t desire. You have opened my ears. You have not required burnt offering and sin offering.

I delight to do your will, my God. Yes, your law is within my heart.”

I don’t rebuke you for your sacrifices. Your burnt offerings are continually before me.

Blessed are those whose strength is in you, who have set their hearts on a pilgrimage.

Their heart is as callous as the fat, but I delight in your law.

My soul has observed your testimonies. I love them exceedingly.

It is joy to the righteous to do justice; but it is a destruction to the workers of iniquity.

When you come to appear before me, who has required this at your hand, to trample my courts?

It pleased Yahweh, for his righteousness’ sake, to magnify the law and make it honorable.

Yes, you didn’t hear. Yes, you didn’t know. Yes, from of old your ear was not opened, for I knew that you dealt very treacherously, and were called a transgressor from the womb.

“Listen to me, you who know righteousness, the people in whose heart is my law. Don’t fear the reproach of men, and don’t be dismayed at their insults.

He who kills an ox is as he who kills a man; he who sacrifices a lamb, as he who breaks a dog’s neck; he who offers an offering, as he who offers pig’s blood; he who burns frankincense, as he who blesses an idol. Yes, they have chosen their own ways, and their soul delights in their abominations:

To whom should I speak and testify, that they may hear? Behold, their ear is uncircumcised, and they can’t listen. Behold, Yahweh’s word has become a reproach to them. They have no delight in it.

For I didn’t speak to your fathers or command them in the day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt concerning burnt offerings or sacrifices;

For I desire mercy, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings.

But you go and learn what this means: ‘I desire mercy, and not sacrifice,’ for I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.”

But if you had known what this means, ‘I desire mercy, and not sacrifice,’ you wouldn’t have condemned the guiltless.

He said, “Abba, Father, all things are possible to you. Please remove this cup from me. However, not what I desire, but what you desire.”

But I have a baptism to be baptized with, and how distressed I am until it is accomplished!

But when his brothers had gone up to the feast, then he also went up, not publicly, but as it were in secret.

We know that God doesn’t listen to sinners, but if anyone is a worshiper of God, and does his will, he listens to him.

But that the world may know that I love the Father, and as the Father commanded me, even so I do. Arise, let’s go from here.

Do we then nullify the law through faith? May it never be! No, we establish the law.

who gave himself for our sins, that he might deliver us out of this present evil age, according to the will of our God and Father—

You have loved righteousness and hated iniquity; therefore God, your God, has anointed you with the oil of gladness above your fellows.”