Leviticus 11:34

Yahweh is far from the wicked, but he hears the prayer of the righteous.

In nothing be anxious, but in everything, by prayer and petition with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God.

Don’t overthrow God’s work for food’s sake. All things indeed are clean, however it is evil for that man who creates a stumbling block by eating.

I know also, my God, that you try the heart, and have pleasure in uprightness. As for me, in the uprightness of my heart I have willingly offered all these things. Now I have seen with joy your people, who are present here, offer willingly to you.

To do righteousness and justice is more acceptable to Yahweh than sacrifice.

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.”

Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God.

I know, and am persuaded in the Lord Jesus, that nothing is unclean of itself; except that to him who considers anything to be unclean, to him it is unclean.

Confess your offenses to one another, and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The insistent prayer of a righteous person is powerfully effective.

A good man leaves an inheritance to his children’s children, but the wealth of the sinner is stored for the righteous.

He who turns away his ear from hearing the law, even his prayer is an abomination.

“For I, Yahweh, love justice. I hate robbery and iniquity. I will give them their reward in truth and I will make an everlasting covenant with them.

Take no interest from him or profit; but fear your God, that your brother may live among you.

Yahweh is near to all those who call on him, to all who call on him in truth.

“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.

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:

As the partridge that sits on eggs which she has not laid, so is he who gets riches, and not by right. In the middle of his days, they will leave him. At his end, he will be a fool.

But give for gifts to the needy those things which are within, and behold, all things will be clean to you.

God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth.”

But he who doubts is condemned if he eats, because it isn’t of faith; and whatever is not of faith is sin.

“All things are lawful for me,” but not all things are profitable. “All things are lawful for me,” but not all things build up.

For the eyes of the Lord are on the righteous, and his ears open to their prayer; but the face of the Lord is against those who do evil.”

“If you lend money to any of my people with you who is poor, you shall not be to him as a creditor. You shall not charge him interest.

Hear, Yahweh, my righteous plea; Give ear to my prayer, that doesn’t go out of deceitful lips.

If I cherished sin in my heart, the Lord wouldn’t have listened.

When he is judged, let him come out guilty. Let his prayer be turned into sin.

arrogant eyes, a lying tongue, hands that shed innocent blood,

Wealth gained dishonestly dwindles away, but he who gathers by hand makes it grow.

He who oppresses the poor shows contempt for his Maker, but he who is kind to the needy honors him.

Guard your steps when you go to God’s house; for to draw near to listen is better than to give the sacrifice of fools, for they don’t know that they do evil.

I hate, I despise your feasts, and I can’t stand your solemn assemblies.

If you do well, won’t it be lifted up? If you don’t do well, sin crouches at the door. Its desire is for you, but you are to rule over it.”

and you shall detest them. You shall not eat of their meat, and you shall detest their carcasses.

He must restore the lamb fourfold, because he did this thing, and because he had no pity!”

he may prepare it, but the just will put it on, and the innocent will divide the silver.

Let my prayer be set before you like incense; the lifting up of my hands like the evening sacrifice.

All the relatives of the poor shun him: how much more do his friends avoid him! He pursues them with pleas, but they are gone.

An inheritance quickly gained at the beginning, won’t be blessed in the end.

For to the man who pleases him, God gives wisdom, knowledge, and joy; but to the sinner he gives travail, to gather and to heap up, that he may give to him who pleases God. This also is vanity and a chasing after wind.

My dove in the clefts of the rock, in the hiding places of the mountainside, let me see your face. let me hear your voice; for your voice is sweet and your face is lovely.

Bring no more vain offerings. Incense is an abomination to me. New moons, Sabbaths, and convocations: I can’t stand evil assemblies.

Yet they seek me daily, and delight to know my ways. As a nation that did righteousness, and didn’t forsake the ordinance of their God, they ask of me righteous judgments. They delight to draw near to God.

Behold, you fast for strife and contention, and to strike with the fist of wickedness. You don’t fast today so as to make your voice to be heard on high.

he who hasn’t lent to them with interest, hasn’t taken any increase from them, who has withdrawn his hand from iniquity, has executed true justice between man and man,

has lent with interest, and has taken increase from the poor; shall he then live? He shall not live. He has done all these abominations. He shall surely die. His blood will be on him.

who has withdrawn his hand from the poor, who hasn’t received interest or increase, has executed my ordinances, has walked in my statutes; he shall not die for the iniquity of his father. He shall surely live.

They will go with their flocks and with their herds to seek Yahweh; but they won’t find him. He has withdrawn himself from them.

Then Haggai answered, “ ‘So is this people, and so is this nation before me,’ says Yahweh; ‘and so is every work of their hands. That which they offer there is unclean.

That which enters into the mouth doesn’t defile the man; but that which proceeds out of the mouth, this defiles the man.”

The Lord said to him, “Now you Pharisees cleanse the outside of the cup and of the platter, but your inward part is full of extortion and wickedness.

in that they show the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience testifying with them, and their thoughts among themselves accusing or else excusing them)

For the unbelieving husband is sanctified in the wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified in the husband. Otherwise your children would be unclean, but now they are holy.

However, that knowledge isn’t in all men. But some, with consciousness of the idol until now, eat as of a thing sacrificed to an idol, and their conscience, being weak, is defiled.

Whatever is sold in the butcher shop, eat, asking no question for the sake of conscience,

Whether therefore you eat, or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.

being only (with meats and drinks and various washings) fleshly ordinances, imposed until a time of reformation.

By faith, Abel offered to God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, through which he had testimony given to him that he was righteous, God testifying with respect to his gifts; and through it he, being dead, still speaks.

Finally, all of you be like-minded, compassionate, loving as brothers, tenderhearted, courteous,

“Speak to the children of Israel, saying, ‘These are the living things which you may eat among all the animals that are on the earth.

“ ‘Nevertheless these you shall not eat of those that chew the cud, or of those who part the hoof: the camel, because it chews the cud but doesn’t have a parted hoof, is unclean to you.

“ ‘These you may eat of all that are in the waters: whatever has fins and scales in the waters, in the seas, and in the rivers, that you may eat.

“ ‘You shall detest these among the birds; they shall not be eaten because they are an abomination: the eagle, the vulture, the black vulture,

Yet you may eat these: of all winged creeping things that go on all fours, which have long, jointed legs for hopping on the earth.

“ ‘These are they which are unclean to you among the creeping things that creep on the earth: the weasel, the rat, any kind of great lizard,

“ ‘If any animal of which you may eat dies, he who touches its carcass shall be unclean until the evening.

Is it any pleasure to the Almighty that you are righteous? Or does it benefit him that you make your ways perfect?

Surely God will not hear an empty cry, neither will the Almighty regard it.

The fear of Yahweh is to hate evil. I hate pride, arrogance, the evil way, and the perverse mouth.

The sacrifice made by the wicked is an abomination to Yahweh, but the prayer of the upright is his delight.

He who justifies the wicked, and he who condemns the righteous, both of them alike are an abomination to Yahweh.

A high look and a proud heart, the lamp of the wicked, is sin.

The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination— how much more, when he brings it with a wicked mind!

He who increases his wealth by excessive interest gathers it for one who has pity on the poor.

But Daniel purposed in his heart that he would not defile himself with the king’s dainties, nor with the wine which he drank. Therefore he requested of the prince of the eunuchs that he might not defile himself.

But the things which proceed out of the mouth come out of the heart, and they defile the man.

“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you devour widows’ houses, and as a pretense you make long prayers. Therefore you will receive greater condemnation.

A voice came to him again the second time, “What God has cleansed, you must not call unclean.”

To the pure, all things are pure; but to those who are defiled and unbelieving, nothing is pure; but both their mind and their conscience are defiled.

Don’t be carried away by various and strange teachings, for it is good that the heart be established by grace, not by food, through which those who were so occupied were not benefited.