The best Bible verses for sacrifice (NLT) include passages about God's love, strength, and guidance. This page features 15+ carefully curated Scripture passages for sacrifice (NLT), each selected for its relevance and depth. Read, save, and share the perfect verse for your situation.
"But if this firstborn animal has any defect, such as lameness or blindness, or if anything else is wrong with it, you must not sacrifice it to the LORD your God."Deuteronomy 15:21
"But if this firstborn animal has any defect, such as lameness or blindness, or if anything else is wrong with it, you must not sacrifice it to the LORD your God."Deuteronomy 15:21
"Your Passover sacrifice may be from either the flock or the herd, and it must be sacrificed to the LORD your God at the designated place of worship — the place he chooses for his name to be honored."Deuteronomy 16:2
"Let no yeast be found in any house throughout your land for those seven days. And when you sacrifice the Passover lamb on the evening of the first day, do not let any of the meat remain until the next morning."Deuteronomy 16:4
"“You may not sacrifice the Passover in just any of the towns that the LORD your God is giving you."Deuteronomy 16:5
"You must offer it only at the designated place of worship — the place the LORD your God chooses for his name to be honored. Sacrifice it there in the evening as the sun goes down on the anniversary of your exodus from Egypt."Deuteronomy 16:6
"“Never sacrifice sick or defective cattle, sheep, or goats to the LORD your God, for he detests such gifts."Deuteronomy 17:1
"“These are the parts the priests may claim as their share from the cattle, sheep, and goats that the people bring as offerings: the shoulder, the cheeks, and the stomach."Deuteronomy 18:3
"For example, never sacrifice your son or daughter as a burnt offering. And do not let your people practice fortune-telling, or use sorcery, or interpret omens, or engage in witchcraft,"Deuteronomy 18:10
"Also sacrifice peace offerings on it, and celebrate by feasting there before the LORD your God."Deuteronomy 27:7
"They offered sacrifices to demons, which are not God, to gods they had not known before, to new gods only recently arrived, to gods their ancestors had never feared."Deuteronomy 32:17
"Where now are those gods, who ate the fat of their sacrifices and drank the wine of their offerings? Let those gods arise and help you! Let them provide you with shelter!"Deuteronomy 32:38
"They summon the people to the mountain to offer proper sacrifices there. They benefit from the riches of the sea and the hidden treasures in the sand.”"Deuteronomy 33:19
"As you enter the house of God, keep your ears open and your mouth shut. It is evil to make mindless offerings to God."Ecclesiastes 5:1
"Live a life filled with love, following the example of Christ. He loved us and offered himself as a sacrifice for us, a pleasing aroma to God."Ephesians 5:2
"Then they will worship their nets and burn incense in front of them. “These nets are the gods who have made us rich!” they will claim."Habakkuk 1:16
Translations differ in what they optimise for. Some follow the original wording closely at the cost of a natural English sentence; others read smoothly and make interpretive choices to get there. Neither is wrong, but they produce noticeably different verses.
Each of the 15 verses below is shown in the translation you asked for, and every verse links to a page comparing all six side by side — which is usually the fastest way to see where the translators disagreed.
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The most-cited Bible verses for sacrifice (NLT) are Deuteronomy 15:21, Deuteronomy 16:2, Deuteronomy 16:4. 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 (NLT) 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 (NLT), chosen so each stands on its own and links through to the full chapter it belongs to.