May he take notice ¹  of your offerings; may he accept ²  your burnt sacrifice! (Selah)

The tongue of the wise ¹  treats knowledge correctly, ²  but the mouth of the fool spouts out ³  folly.

Those who are in the flesh cannot please God.

Therefore, brothers and sisters, ¹  we are not children of the slave woman but of the free woman.

Children, obey your parents in everything, for this is pleasing in the Lord.

As for an ox ¹  or a sheep with a limb too long or stunted, ²  you may present it as a freewill offering, but it will not be acceptable for a votive offering. ³ 

Even from a foreigner ¹  you must not present the food of your God from such animals as these, for they are ruined and flawed; ²  they will not be acceptable for your benefit.’”

But if you do not agree to our terms ¹  by being circumcised, then we will take ²  our sister ³  and depart.”

The Lord abhors ¹  the sacrifices ²  of the wicked, ³  but the prayer ⁴  of the upright pleases him. ⁵ 

The voice ¹  spoke to him again, a second time, “What God has made clean, you must not consider ²  ritually unclean!” ³ 

But the voice replied a second time from heaven, ‘What God has made clean, you must not consider ¹  ritually unclean!’

For with the heart one believes and thus has righteousness ¹  and with the mouth one confesses and thus has salvation. ² 

Was not Abraham our father justified by works when he offered Isaac his son on the altar?

For this finds God’s favor, ¹  if because of conscience toward God ²  someone endures hardships in suffering unjustly.

This is what the Lord says: “At the time I decide to show my favor, I will respond to you; in the day of deliverance I will help you; I will protect you ¹  and make you a covenant mediator for people, ²  to rebuild ³  the land ⁴  and to reassign the desolate property.

The offerings ¹  of Judah and Jerusalem ²  will be pleasing to the Lord as in former times and years past.

For it does not enter his heart but his stomach, and then goes out into the sewer.” ¹  (This means all foods are clean.) ² 

For no one is declared righteous before him ¹  by the works of the law, ²  for through the law comes ³  the knowledge of sin.

But to the one who does not work, but believes in the one who declares the ungodly righteous, ¹  his faith is credited as righteousness.

but also for our sake, to whom it will be credited, those who believe in the one who raised Jesus our Lord from the dead.