G2378–θυσία–thusia

But go and take to heart the sense of these words, My desire is for mercy, not offerings: for I have come not to get the upright, but sinners.

θυσίαν· thusian “sacrifice;’”

But if these words had been in your minds, My desire is for mercy and not for offerings, you would not have been judging those who have done no wrong.

θυσίαν, thusian “sacrifice,’”

Everyone will be salted with fire.

θυσία thusia “sacrifice”

And to have love for him with all the heart, and with all the mind, and with all the strength, and to have the same love for his neighbour as for himself, is much more than all forms of offerings.

θυσιῶν. thusiōn “sacrifices.”

And to make an offering, as it is ordered in the law of the Lord, of two doves or other young birds.

θυσίαν thusian “a sacrifice”

Now some people who were there at that time, gave him an account of how the blood of some Galilaeans had been mixed by Pilate with their offerings.

θυσιῶν thusiōn “sacrifices”

And they made the image of a young ox in those days, and made an offering to it, and had joy in the work of their hands.

θυσίαν thusian “a sacrifice”

But God was turned from them and let them give worship to the stars of heaven, as it says in the book of the prophets, Did you make offerings to me of sheep and oxen for forty years in the waste land, O house of Israel?

θυσίας thusias “sacrifices”

For this reason I make request to you, brothers, by the mercies of God, that you will give your bodies as a living offering, holy, pleasing to God, which is the worship it is right for you to give him.

θυσίαν thusian “a sacrifice”

See Israel after the flesh: do not those who take as food the offerings of the altar take a part in the altar?

θυσίας thusias “sacrifices”

And be living in love, even as Christ had love for you, and gave himself up for us, an offering to God for a perfume of a sweet smell.

θυσίαν thusian “a sacrifice”

And even if I am offered like a drink offering, giving myself for the cause and work of your faith, I am glad and have joy with you all:

θυσίᾳ thusia “sacrifice”

I have all things and more than enough: I am made full, having had from Epaphroditus the things which came from you, a perfume of a sweet smell, an offering well pleasing to God.

θυσίαν thusian “a sacrifice”

Every high priest who is taken from among men is given his position to take care of the interests of men in those things which have to do with God, so that he may make offerings for sins.

θυσίας thusias “sacrifices”

Who has no need to make offerings for sins every day, like those high priests, first for himself, and then for the people; because he did this once and for ever when he made an offering of himself.

θυσίας thusias “sacrifices”

Now every high priest is given authority to take to God the things which are given and to make offerings; so that it is necessary for this man, like them, to have something for an offering.

θυσίας thusias “sacrifices”

And this is an image of the present time; when the offerings which are given are not able to make the heart of the worshipper completely clean,

θυσίαι thusiai “sacrifices”

For this cause it was necessary to make the copies of the things in heaven clean with these offerings; but the things themselves are made clean with better offerings than these.

θυσίαις thusiais “sacrifices”

For then he would have undergone a number of deaths from the time of the making of the world: but now he has come to us at the end of the old order, to put away sin by the offering of himself.

θυσίας thusias “sacrifice”

For the law, being only a poor copy of the future good things, and not the true image of those things, is never able to make the people who come to the altar every year with the same offerings completely clean.

θυσίαις thusiais “sacrifices”

So that when he comes into the world, he says, You had no desire for offerings, but you made a body ready for me;

θυσίαν thusian “Sacrifice”

After saying, You had no desire for offerings, for burned offerings or offerings for sin (which are made by the law) and you had no pleasure in them,

θυσίας thusias “sacrifices”

And every priest takes his place at the altar day by day, doing what is necessary, and making again and again the same offerings which are never able to take away sins.

θυσίας, thusias “sacrifices,”

But when Jesus had made one offering for sins for ever, he took his place at the right hand of God;

θυσίαν thusian “sacrifice”

For if we do evil on purpose after we have had the knowledge of what is true, there is no more offering for sins,

θυσία, thusia “a sacrifice,”