Proverbs 21:27
The offering of evil-doers is disgusting: how much more when they give it with an evil purpose!
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
The sacrifice of the wicked is abomination: how much more, when he bringeth it with a wicked mind?
In Context
28A false witness will be cut off, ...
Cross References
1 Samuel 13:12I said, Now the Philistines will come down on me at Gilgal, and I have made no prayer for help to the Lord: and so, forcing myself to do it, I made a burned offering.
Psalms 50:8I will not take up a cause against you because of your offerings, or because of your burned offerings, which are ever before me.
Proverbs 15:8The offering of the evil-doer is disgusting to the Lord, but the prayer of the upright man is his delight.
Isaiah 1:11What use to me is the number of the offerings which you give me? says the Lord; your burned offerings of sheep, and the best parts of fat cattle, are a weariness to me; I take no pleasure in the blood of oxen, or of lambs, or of he-goats.
Jeremiah 6:20To what purpose does sweet perfume come to me from Sheba, and spices from a far country? your burned offerings give me no pleasure, your offerings of beasts are not pleasing to me.
Amos 5:21Your feasts are disgusting to me, I will have nothing to do with them; I will take no delight in your holy meetings.
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 21:26-27
25 The desire of the slothful killeth him; for his hands refuse to labour. 26 He coveteth greedily all the day long: but the righteous giveth and spareth not. Here we have, 1. The miseries of the slothful, whose hands refuse to labour in an honest calling, by which they might get an honest livelihood. They are as fit for labour as other men, and business offers itself, to which they might lay their hands and apply their minds, but they will not; herein they fondly think they do well for themselves, see ch. xxvi.… Read the whole commentary →