1 Samuel 16:7
7But the Lord said to Samuel, a“Do not look on his appearance or on the height of his stature, because I have rejected him. For the Lord sees not as man sees: man looks on the outward appearance, bbut the Lord looks on the heart.”Psalms 50:13-15
13Do I eat the flesh of bullsor drink the blood of goats?
14 cOffer to God a sacrifice of thanksgiving, ▼
▼Or Make thanksgiving your sacrifice to God
and eperform your vows to the Most High,
15and fcall upon me in the day of trouble;
I will gdeliver you, and you shall hglorify me.”
Psalms 50:23
23The one who ioffers thanksgiving as his sacrifice glorifies me;to one who jorders his way rightly
I will show the ksalvation of God!”
Psalms 51:17
17The sacrifices of God are la broken spirit;a broken and contrite heart, O God, you will not despise.
Psalms 66:18
18If I had mcherished iniquity in my heart,nthe Lord would not have listened.
Isaiah 57:15
15For thus says othe One who is high and lifted up,who inhabits eternity, whose name is pHoly:
q“I dwell in the high and holy place,
and also rwith him who is of a contrite and lowly spirit,
sto revive the spirit of the lowly,
and to revive the heart of the contrite.
Matthew 15:8-9
8 t“‘This people honors me with their lips,but their heart is far from me;
9in vain do they worship me,
teaching as udoctrines the commandments of men.’”
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