We are going to leave here and go to Bethel, where I will build an altar to the God who helped me in the time of my trouble and who has been with me everywhere I have gone."

Let the giving of thanks be your sacrifice to God, and give the Almighty all that you promised.

Giving thanks is the sacrifice that honors me, and I will surely save all who obey me."

I will bring burnt offerings to your house; I will offer you what I promised.

I will offer sheep to be burned on the altar; I will sacrifice bulls and goats, and the smoke will go up to the sky.

They must thank him with sacrifices, and with songs of joy must tell all that he has done.

I will give you a sacrifice of thanksgiving and offer my prayer to you.

In the assembly of all your people, in the sanctuary of your Temple in Jerusalem, I will give you what I have promised. Praise the LORD!

the shouts of gladness and joy and the happy sounds of wedding feasts. You will hear people sing as they bring thank offerings to my Temple; they will say, 'Give thanks to the LORD Almighty, because he is good and his love is eternal.' I will make this land as prosperous as it was before. I, the LORD, have spoken."

Return to the LORD, and let this prayer be your offering to him: "Forgive all our sins and accept our prayer, and we will praise you as we have promised.

So then, my friends, because of God's great mercy to us I appeal to you: Offer yourselves as a living sacrifice to God, dedicated to his service and pleasing to him. This is the true worship that you should offer.

Let us, then, always offer praise to God as our sacrifice through Jesus, which is the offering presented by lips that confess him as Lord.

Also, no money earned in this way may be brought into the house of the LORD your God in fulfillment of a vow. The LORD hates temple prostitutes.

After four years Absalom said to King David, "Sir, let me go to Hebron and keep a promise I made to the LORD.

When you pray, he will answer you, and you will keep the vows you made.

So when you make a promise to God, keep it as quickly as possible. He has no use for a fool. Do what you promise to do.

Better not to promise at all than to make a promise and not keep it.

Victory comes from the LORD --- may he bless his people.

The LORD saves the righteous and protects them in times of trouble.

He helps them and rescues them; he saves them from the wicked, because they go to him for protection.

Our God is a God who saves; he is the LORD, our Lord, who rescues us from death.

But Israel is saved by the LORD, and her victory lasts forever; her people will never be disgraced.' "

You Samaritans do not really know whom you worship; but we Jews know whom we worship, because it is from the Jews that salvation comes.

Salvation is to be found through him alone; in all the world there is no one else whom God has given who can save us."

They called out in a loud voice: "Salvation comes from our God, who sits on the throne, and from the Lamb!"