And let them offer to Him the sacrifice of praise, and proclaim His works with exaltation.

And to love Him with the whole heart, and with the whole understanding, with all the soul, and with all the strength, and to love one's neighbor as oneself, is more than all the whole burnt offerings and sacrifices."

Therefore, brothers, I exhort you through the compassions of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, well pleasing to God, [which is] your intelligent service.

And I have all things and abound. I have been made full, having received from Epaphroditus the things [sent] from you, a fragrant aroma, an acceptable sacrifice, well pleasing to God.

But do not forget the doing of good and generosity, for with such sacrifices God is well pleased.

you also, as living stones, are being built [into] a spiritual house, a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.

The Lord is near to them that are of a contrite heart; and will save the lowly in spirit.

He heals the brokenhearted, and binds up their wounds.

because your heart was softened, and you were humbled before [Me], when you heard all that I spoke against this place, and against the inhabitants of it, that it should be utterly destroyed and accursed, and you tore your clothes, and wept before Me; I also have heard, says the Lord.

Thus says the Most High, who dwells on high forever, Holy in the holies is His name, the Most High resting in the holies, and giving patience to the faint-hearted, and giving life to the broken-hearted;

The Spirit of the Lord is upon Me, because He has anointed Me; He has sent Me to preach the gospel to the poor, to heal the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and recovery of sight to the blind;

that there should be given to them that mourn in Zion glory instead of ashes, the oil of joy to the mourners, the garment of glory for the spirit of heaviness; and they shall be called generations of righteousness, the planting of the Lord for glory.

For all these things are Mine, says the Lord; and to whom will I have respect, but to the humble and meek, and the [man] that trembles [at] My words?

And the glory of the God of Israel that was upon them went up from the cherubim to the porch of the house. And He called the man that was clothed with the long robe, who had the belt on his loins;

and said to him, Go through the midst of Jerusalem, and set a mark on the foreheads of the men that groan and that grieve for all the iniquities that are done in the midst of them.

Utterly slay old man and youth, and virgin and infants and women: but do not go near any on whom is the mark: begin at My sanctuary. So they began with the elder men who were within in the house.

"Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.

The Pharisee stood and prayed thus with himself, 'God, I thank You that I am not like other men--swindlers, unjust, adulterers, or even like this tax collector.

And the tax collector, standing far away, would not so much as lift his eyes towards heaven, but beat on his chest, saying, 'God, be merciful to me a sinner!'

For He has not despised nor been angry at the supplication of the poor; nor turned away His face from Me; but when I cried to Him, He heard Me.

He has had regard to the prayer of the lowly, and has not despised their petition.

And when he was afflicted, he sought the face of the Lord his God, and was greatly humbled before the face of the God of his fathers;

and he prayed to Him. And He hearkened to him, and listened to his cry, and brought him back to Jerusalem to his kingdom. And Manasseh knew that the Lord, He is God.

I hate, I reject your feasts, and I will not smell your grain offerings in your general assemblies.

Now when the Pharisee who had invited Him saw this, he spoke within himself, saying, "This [Man], if He were a prophet, would know who and what sort of woman [this is] who touches Him, for she is a sinner."

There was a certain creditor who had two debtors. One owed five hundred denarii, and the other [owed] fifty.

Simon answered and said, "I suppose [it is the one] to whom he forgave more." And He said to him, "You have judged correctly."

You gave Me no kiss, but this [woman] has not stopped kissing My feet since the time I came in.

For which reason I say to you, her many sins have been forgiven, because she loved much. But to whom little is forgiven, the same loves little."

And those who were reclining at the table with Him began to say within themselves, "Who is this who even forgives sins?"

And the Pharisees and scribes were grumbling, saying, "This man receives sinners and eats with them."

What man of you, having a hundred sheep, and loses one of them, does not leave behind the ninety-nine in the wilderness, and goes after the one having been lost until he finds it?

And coming into the house, he calls together his friends and neighbors, saying to them, 'Rejoice with me, for I have found my sheep which was lost!'

And the son said to him, 'Father, I have sinned against heaven and before you, and am no longer worthy to be called your son.'

And bring the fatted calf here and slaughter it, and let us eat and be merry;

Now his older son was in the field. And as he came and drew near to the house, he heard music and dancing.

And he said to him, 'Your brother has come, and because he has received him back in good health, your father has killed the fatted calf.'

So he answered and said to his father, 'Lo, so many years I have been serving you and I never transgressed your commandment; and yet you never gave me a young goat, that I might make merry with my friends.

And he said to him, 'Son, you are always with me, and all that I have is yours.