Parallel Verses
A Conservative Version
The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination. How much more when he brings it with a wicked mind!
New American Standard Bible
How much more when he brings it with evil intent!
King James Version
The sacrifice of the wicked is abomination: how much more, when he bringeth it with a wicked mind?
Holman Bible
how much more so
when he brings it with ulterior motives!
International Standard Version
What the wicked person sacrifices is detestable how much more when he offers it with vile motives!
American Standard Version
The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination: How much more, when he bringeth it with a wicked mind!
Amplified
The sacrifice of the wicked is detestable and offensive [to the Lord].
How much more [unacceptable and insulting can it be] when he brings it with evil intention?
Bible in Basic English
The offering of evil-doers is disgusting: how much more when they give it with an evil purpose!
Darby Translation
The sacrifice of the wicked is abomination: how much more when they bring it with a wicked purpose!
Julia Smith Translation
The sacrifice of the unjust is an abomination, for also he will bring it in mischief.
King James 2000
The sacrifice of the wicked is abomination: how much more, when he brings it with a wicked mind?
Lexham Expanded Bible
The sacrifice of the wicked [is] an abomination; how much more when he brings it in divisiveness!
Modern King James verseion
The sacrifice of the wicked is hateful to God; how much more when he brings it with a wicked mind?
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
The sacrifice of the ungodly is abomination, for they offer the thing that is gotten with wickedness.
NET Bible
The wicked person's sacrifice is an abomination; how much more when he brings it with evil intent!
New Heart English Bible
The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination: how much more, when he brings it with a wicked mind.
The Emphasized Bible
The sacrifice of the lawless, is an abomination, how much more, when, with wickedness, he bringeth it in!
Webster
The sacrifice of the wicked is abomination: how much more, when he bringeth it with a wicked mind?
World English Bible
The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination: how much more, when he brings it with a wicked mind!
Youngs Literal Translation
The sacrifice of the wicked is abomination, Much more when in wickedness he bringeth it.
Interlinear
References
American
Word Count of 20 Translations in Proverbs 21:27
Verse Info
Context Readings
Proverbs Of Solomon
26 There is he who covets greedily all the day long, but the righteous gives and does not withhold. 27 The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination. How much more when he brings it with a wicked mind! 28 A FALSE witness shall perish, but the man who hears shall speak so as to endure.
Cross References
Proverbs 15:8
The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination to LORD, but the prayer of the upright is his delight.
Isaiah 66:3
He who slaughters an ox is as he who kills a man. He who sacrifices a lamb, as he who breaks a dog's neck. He who offers an oblation, [as] swine's blood. He who burns frankincense, as he who blesses an idol. Yea, they have chosen t
Jeremiah 6:20
To what purpose does there come to me frankincense from Sheba, and the sweet cane from a far country? Your burnt-offerings are not acceptable, nor your sacrifices pleasing to me.
1 Samuel 13:12-13
therefore I said, Now the Philistines will come down upon me to Gilgal, and I have not entreated the favor of LORD. I forced myself therefore, and offered the burnt-offering.
1 Samuel 15:21-23
But the people took of the spoil, sheep and oxen, the chief of the devoted things, to sacrifice to LORD thy God in Gilgal.
Psalm 50:8-13
I will not reprove thee for thy sacrifices, and thy burnt-offerings [being] continually before me.
Proverbs 28:9
He who turns away his ear from hearing the law, even his prayer is an abomination.
Isaiah 1:11-16
What to me is the multitude of your sacrifices? says LORD. I have had enough of the burnt-offerings of rams, and the fat of fed beasts. And I do not delight in the blood of bullocks or of lambs or of he-goats.
Jeremiah 7:11-12
Has this house, which is called by my name, become a den of robbers in your eyes? Behold, I, even I, have seen it, says LORD.
Amos 5:21-22
I hate, I despise your feasts, and I will take no delight in your solemn assemblies.
Matthew 23:13
Woe to you, scholars and Pharisees, hypocrites! Because ye close up the kingdom of the heavens ahead of men. For ye enter not in, nor do ye allow those who are entering to enter in.