The best Bible verses for sacrifice for today include passages about God's love, strength, and guidance. This page features 15+ carefully curated Scripture passages for sacrifice for today, each selected for its relevance and depth. Read, save, and share the perfect verse for your situation.
"He is the atoning sacrifice for our sins, and not only for ours but also for the sins of the whole world."1 John 2:2
"He is the atoning sacrifice for our sins, and not only for ours but also for the sins of the whole world."1 John 2:2
"This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins."1 John 4:10
"you also, like living stones, are being built into a spiritual house to be a holy priesthood, offering spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ."1 Peter 2:5
"there bring your burnt offerings and sacrifices, your tithes and special gifts, what you have vowed to give and your freewill offerings, and the firstborn of your herds and flocks."Deuteronomy 12:6
"If an animal has a defect, is lame or blind, or has any serious flaw, you must not sacrifice it to the Lord your God."Deuteronomy 15:21
"Sacrifice as the Passover to the Lord your God an animal from your flock or herd at the place the Lord will choose as a dwelling for his Name."Deuteronomy 16:2
"Let no yeast be found in your possession in all your land for seven days. Do not let any of the meat you sacrifice on the evening of the first day remain until morning."Deuteronomy 16:4
"except in the place he will choose as a dwelling for his Name. There you must sacrifice the Passover in the evening, when the sun goes down, on the anniversary of your departure from Egypt."Deuteronomy 16:6
"Do not sacrifice to the Lord your God an ox or a sheep that has any defect or flaw in it, for that would be detestable to him."Deuteronomy 17:1
"This is the share due the priests from the people who sacrifice a bull or a sheep: the shoulder, the jowls and the inner parts."Deuteronomy 18:3
"Let no one be found among you who sacrifices his son or daughter in the fire, who practices divination or sorcery, interprets omens, engages in witchcraft,"Deuteronomy 18:10
"Sacrifice fellowship offerings there, eating them and rejoicing in the presence of the Lord your God."Deuteronomy 27:7
"They sacrificed to demons, which are not God— gods they had not known, gods that recently appeared, gods your fathers did not fear."Deuteronomy 32:17
A verse used for sacrifice for today works differently from one you read once. It gets returned to, repeated, and sat with — so it needs enough depth to reward a second and tenth reading, and enough clarity that you are not decoding it every time.
The 15 passages here hold up to repetition. Each is short enough to carry from memory and substantial enough that it does not wear out.
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The most-cited Bible verses for sacrifice for today are 1 John 2:2, 1 John 4:10, 1 Peter 2:5. This page collects 15 of them, each with its full passage, context and the text in six translations.
Read the verse in its surrounding passage before you use it — a verse that fits in isolation sometimes says something different in context. Compare two translations where the wording is unclear, and pick for the person who will read it rather than for the theme.
Scripture returns to sacrifice for today across both testaments rather than settling it in one passage, which is why the verses on this page do not all say the same thing. Read together they give a fuller answer than any single verse does.
There is no single best translation. The NIV and NLT read most naturally and communicate well to someone outside the church; the ESV and NASB stay closer to the original wording; the KJV carries the phrasing most people recognise. Every verse here links to a page showing all six side by side.
More than any page can list. This one carries the 15 that are most often turned to for sacrifice for today, chosen so each stands on its own and links through to the full chapter it belongs to.