1 I am a priest of the Lord, and to Him I do priestly service: and to Him I offer the sacrifice of His thought. (ODE) 2 For His thought is not like the thought of the world nor the thought of the flesh, nor like them that serve carnally. (ODE) 3 The sacrifice of the Lord is righteousness, and purity of heart and lips. (ODE)
Odes of Solomon 20:1–3
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1 Clement 52:3–4
3 And again He saith; Sacrifice to God a sacrifice of praise, and pay thy vows to the Most High: and call upon Me in the day of thine affliction, and I will deliver thee, and thou shalt glorify Me. (1CL) 4 For a sacrifice unto God is a broken spirit. (1CL)
Sirach 7:8–10
8 Don’t commit a sin twice, for even in one you will not be unpunished. (WEB) 9 Don’t say, “He will look upon the multitude of my gifts. When I make an offering to the Most High God, he will accept it.” (WEB) 10 Don’t be faint-hearted in your prayer. Don’t neglect to give alms. (WEB)
Psalms 50:7–9
7 “Hear, O My people, and I will speak, O Israel, and I will testify against you: I am God, your God. 8 I do not rebuke you for your sacrifices, and your burnt offerings are ever before Me. 9 I have no need for a bull from your stall or goats from your pens,
1 Clement 35:11–12
11 Now understand ye these things, ye that forget God, lest at any time He seize you as a lion, and there be none to deliver. (1CL) 12 The sacrifice of praise shall glorify Me, and there is the way wherein I will show him the salvation of God . (1CL)
1 Clement 18:13–14
13 For, if Thou hadst desired sacrifice, I would have given it: in whole burnt offerings Thou wilt have no pleasure. (1CL) 14 A sacrifice unto God is a contrite spirit; a contrite and humbled heart God will not despise. (1CL)
Sirach 35:5–7
5 For all these things are done because of the commandment. (WEB) 6 The offering of the righteous enriches the altar. The sweet fragrance of it is before the Most High. (WEB) 7 The sacrifice of a righteous man is acceptable. It won’t be forgotten. (WEB)
Sirach 34:18–20
18 He who sacrifices a thing wrongfully gotten, his offering is made in mockery. The mockeries of wicked men are not acceptable. (WEB) 19 The Most High has no pleasure in the offerings of the ungodly, Neither is he pacified for sins by the multitude of sacrifices. (WEB) 20 Like one… (WEB)
Odes of Solomon 6:1–3
1 As the hand moves over the harp, and the strings speak. (ODE) 2 So speaks in my members the Spirit of the Lord, and I speak by His love. (ODE) 3 For it destroys what is foreign, and everything that is bitter: (ODE)
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