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Or have ye not read in the law, how that on the sabbath days the priests in the temple profane the sabbath, and are blameless? But I say unto you, That in this place is one greater than the temple. But if ye had known what this meaneth, I will have mercy, and not sacrifice, ye would not have condemned the guiltless. For the Son of man is Lord even of the sabbath day.

Matthew 12:5-8, KJV

For every one shall be salted with fire, and every sacrifice shall be salted with salt. Salt is good: but if the salt have lost his saltness, wherewith will ye season it? Have salt in yourselves, and have peace one with another.

Mark 9:49-50, KJV

And the scribe said unto him, Well, Master, thou hast said the truth: for there is one God; and there is none other but he: And to love him with all the heart, and with all the understanding, and with all the soul, and with all the strength, and to love his neighbour as himself, is more than all whole burnt offerings and sacrifices. And when Jesus saw that he answered discreetly, he said unto him, Thou art not far from the kingdom of God. And no man after that durst ask him any question.

Mark 12:32-34, KJV

I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service. And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.

Romans 12:1-2, KJV

and the floods of mine eyes gushed out an acceptable sacrifice to You.

Augustine, Confessions

How You have loved us, good Father, who spared not Your only Son, but delivered Him up for us ungodly sinners! How You have loved us, for whom He that thought it no robbery to be equal with You, was made subject even to the death of the cross, He alone, free among the dead, having power to lay down His life, and power to take it again: for us to You both Victor and Victim, and therefore Victor, because the Victim; for us to You Priest and Sacrifice, and therefore Priest because the Sacrifice; making us to You, of servants, sons by being born of You, and serving us.

Augustine, Confessions

Make of your prayers one sweet sacrifice, And lift my soul to heaven.

Shakespeare, Henry VIII, Act 2, Scene 1