Proverbs Chapter 21 verse 27 Holy Bible
The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination: How much more, when he bringeth it with a wicked mind!
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The offering of evil-doers is disgusting: how much more when they give it with an evil purpose!
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The sacrifice of the wicked is abomination: how much more when they bring it with a wicked purpose!
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The sacrifice of the wicked is abomination: how much more, when he bringeth it with a wicked mind?
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The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination: How much more, when he brings it with a wicked mind!
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The sacrifice of the wicked `is' abomination, Much more when in wickedness he bringeth it.
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 27. - The first hemistich occurs in Proverbs 15:8 (where see note). How much more, when he bringeth it with a wicked mind! rather, for evil, equivalent to "in order to atone for wickedness." The sacrifice of the sinner is abominable, as offered formally without repentance and faith; much more abominable, when he brings his offering to win, as it were, God's connivance in the sin which he commits and has no intention of renouncing, - brings it as a kited of bribe and recompense to compensate or his transgression. Such an outrage on God's purity and justice may well be called an abomination. Septuagint, "The sacrifices of the ungodly are abomination unto the Lord, for they. offer them wickedly (παρανόμως)." The notion of propitiating the Deity by sharing with him the proceeds of sin is expressed in proverbial language. We have the homely saw, "Steal the goose, and give the giblets in alms;" and the Spaniards say, "Huerto el puerco, y dar los pies por Dios," "Steal the pig, and give away the pettitoes for God's sake" (Kelly). (See Ecclus. 31:18, etc.)
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(27) How much more when he bringeth it with a wicked mind?--Plotting at the same time future wickedness, or thinking to make God, by the sacrifice, overlook his sin, and so become, as it were, his confederate.
