Lexicon :: Strong's G2378 - thysia

“Go and learn what this means: I desire mercy and not sacrifice. For I didn’t come to call the righteous, but sinners.”[fn]

“If you had known what this means, I desire mercy and not sacrifice, you would not have condemned the innocent.

“And to love him with all your heart, with all your understanding,[fn] and with all your strength, and to love your neighbor as yourself, is far more important than all the burnt offerings and sacrifices.”

and to offer a sacrifice (according to what is stated in the law of the Lord, a pair of turtledoves or two young pigeons).

At that time, some people came and reported to him about the Galileans whose blood Pilate had mixed with their sacrifices.

“They even made a calf in those days, offered sacrifice to the idol, and were celebrating what their hands had made.

Therefore, brothers and sisters, in view of the mercies of God, I urge you to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God; this is your true worship.[fn]

Consider the people of Israel.[fn] Do not those who eat the sacrifices participate in the altar?

and walk in love, as Christ also loved us and gave himself for us, a sacrificial and fragrant offering to God.

But even if I am poured out as a drink offering on the sacrificial service of your faith, I am glad and rejoice with all of you.

But I have received everything in full, and I have an abundance. I am fully supplied,[fn] having received from Epaphroditus what you provided ​— ​a fragrant offering, an acceptable sacrifice, pleasing to God.

For every high priest taken from among men is appointed in matters pertaining to God for the people, to offer both gifts and sacrifices for sins.

He doesn’t need to offer sacrifices every day, as high priests do ​— ​first for their own sins, then for those of the people. He did this once for all time when he offered himself.

For every high priest is appointed to offer gifts and sacrifices; therefore, it was necessary for this priest also to have something to offer.

This is a symbol for the present time, during which gifts and sacrifices are offered that cannot perfect the worshiper’s conscience.

Therefore, it was necessary for the copies of the things in the heavens to be purified with these sacrifices, but the heavenly things themselves to be purified with better sacrifices than these.

Otherwise, he would have had to suffer many times since the foundation of the world. But now he has appeared one time, at the end of the ages, for the removal of sin by the sacrifice of himself.

Since the law has only a shadow of the good things to come, and not the reality itself of those things, it can never perfect the worshipers by the same sacrifices they continually offer year after year.

Therefore, as he was coming into the world, he said:

You did not desire sacrifice and offering,

but you prepared a body for me.

After he says above, You did not desire or delight in sacrifices and offerings, whole burnt offerings and sin offerings (which are offered according to the law),

Every priest stands day after day ministering and offering the same sacrifices time after time, which can never take away sins.

For if we deliberately go on sinning after receiving the knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins,

By faith Abel offered to God a better sacrifice than Cain did. By faith he was approved as a righteous man, because God approved his gifts, and even though he is dead, he still speaks through his faith.

Therefore, through him let us continually offer up to God a sacrifice of praise, that is, the fruit of lips that confess his name.

you yourselves, as living stones, a spiritual house, are being built to be a holy priesthood[fn] to offer spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.