When any of you offer one of your cattle as a fellowship offering, it is to be a bull or a cow without any defects.

Then King Solomon and all the people there offered sacrifices to the LORD.

Your life must be controlled by love, just as Christ loved us and gave his life for us as a sweet-smelling offering and sacrifice that pleases God.

(It is really too shameful even to talk about the things they do in secret.)

Since this is true, how much more is accomplished by the blood of Christ! Through the eternal Spirit he offered himself as a perfect sacrifice to God. His blood will purify our consciences from useless rituals, so that we may serve the living God.