Bible Verses About Sacrifice
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for sacrifice, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 77,855 votes, led by Romans 12:1. Each passage links to its verse page or the interactive map; scripture is the King James Version.
Top verses about Sacrifice
Romans 12:11,828 votes
I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service.
Ephesians 5:21,657 votes
And walk in love, as Christ also hath loved us, and hath given himself for us an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweetsmelling savour.
Proverbs 21:31,563 votes
To do justice and judgment is more acceptable to the Lord than sacrifice.
Hebrews 13:161,557 votes
But to do good and to communicate forget not: for with such sacrifices God is well pleased.
Matthew 9:131,488 votes
But go ye and learn what that meaneth, I will have mercy, and not sacrifice: for I am not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.
Romans 12:1-21,350 votes
I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service.
John 15:131,271 votes
Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.
Hebrews 9:281,264 votes
So Christ was once offered to bear the sins of many; and unto them that look for him shall he appear the second time without sin unto salvation.
Psalms 51:171,235 votes
The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit: a broken and a contrite heart, O God, thou wilt not despise.
John 3:161,210 votes
For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
Romans 6:131,196 votes
Neither yield ye your members as instruments of unrighteousness unto sin: but yield yourselves unto God, as those that are alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness unto God.
Mark 10:451,174 votes
For even the Son of man came not to be ministered unto, but to minister, and to give his life a ransom for many.
Hebrews 13:151,158 votes
By him therefore let us offer the sacrifice of praise to God continually, that is, the fruit of our lips giving thanks to his name.
Romans 5:81,109 votes
But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.
Hosea 6:61,052 votes
For I desired mercy, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings.
Titus 2:141,040 votes
Who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify unto himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works.
Hebrews 9:141,030 votes
How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?
Luke 9:241,028 votes
For whosoever will save his life shall lose it: but whosoever will lose his life for my sake, the same shall save it.
1 John 2:2980 votes
And he is the propitiation for our sins: and not for ours only, but also for the sins of the whole world.
1 John 1:7978 votes
But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin.
Luke 23:46948 votes
And when Jesus had cried with a loud voice, he said, Father, into thy hands I commend my spirit: and having said thus, he gave up the ghost.
Matthew 20:28940 votes
Even as the Son of man came not to be ministered unto, but to minister, and to give his life a ransom for many.
Romans 8:32937 votes
He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things?
1 Corinthians 15:3-4937 votes
For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures;
Matthew 20:18-19924 votes
Behold, we go up to Jerusalem; and the Son of man shall be betrayed unto the chief priests and unto the scribes, and they shall condemn him to death,
What does the Bible say about sacrifice?
Readers most often cite Romans 12:1 on the subject of sacrifice. Across 77,855 votes, 25 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including Ephesians 5:2, Proverbs 21:3, Hebrews 13:16. This page lists all 25 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.