Proverbs 21:27
The sacrifice of the vngodly is abhomination: howe muche more when they offer the thing that is gotten with wickednesse?
Bible (Bishops')
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
26He coueteth greedyly all day long: but the righteous geueth and spareth not.
28A false witnesse shall perishe: but [a good] man speaketh constantly what he hath hearde.
Cross References
Proverbs 15:8The Lorde abhorreth the sacrifice of the vngodly: but the prayer of the righteous is acceptable vnto hym.
Isaiah 1:11Why offer ye so many sacrifices to me, wyll the Lorde say? I am full of the burnt offeringes of weathers, & of the fatnesse of fed beastes, I haue no pleasure in the blood of bullockes, lambes, and goates.
Amos 5:21I hate, I abhorre your feast dayes, and I will not smell in your solemne assemblies.
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 →