Jesus Said It Is Finished

John 19:30
30 When Jesus had received the sour wine, he said, "It is finished," and he bowed his head and
gave up his spirit
Altar
Genesis 12:7
And the LORD appeared unto Abram, and said, unto thy seed will I give this land: and there
build he an altar unto the LORD, who appeared unto him

2 Chronicles 7:14 -16

if my people who are called by my name humble themselves, and pray and seek my face and turn
from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and heal their
land
15 Now mine eyes shall be open, and mine ears attend unto the prayer that is made in this place.
16 For now have I chosen and sanctified this house that my name may be there forever: and mine
eyes and mine heart shall be there perpetually
1 Corinthians 6:19-20

19 Do you not know that your bodies are temples of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you
have received from God? You are not your own;
20 you were bought at a price. Therefore honor God with your bodies.

1 Corinthians 3:16-17

16 Don’t you know that you yourselves are God’s temple and that God’s Spirit dwells in your
midst?
17 If anyone destroys God’s temple, God will destroy that person; for God’s temple is sacred,
and you together are that temple.

Romans 12:1-2

1 Therefore, I urge you, brothers and sisters, in view of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as a
living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God—this is your true and proper worship.
2 Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind.
Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will
Altar Of The God

Genesis 12:7 ESV / 34 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Then the LORD appeared to Abram and said, “To your offspring I will give this land.” So he built
there an altar to the LORD, who had appeared to him.

Genesis 26:25 ESV / 28 helpful votes

So he built an altar there and called upon the name of the LORD and pitched his tent there. And
there Isaac's servants dug a well.

Exodus 20:24 ESV / 27 helpful votes

An altar of earth you shall make for me and sacrifice on it your burnt offerings and your peace
offerings, your sheep and your oxen. In every place where I cause my name to be remembered I
will come to you and bless you.

Exodus 17:15 ESV / 27 helpful votes

And Moses built an altar and called the name of it, The LORD Is My Banner,

Revelation 5:8 ESV / 22 helpful votes

And when he had taken the scroll, the four living creatures and the twenty-four elders fell down
before the Lamb, each holding a harp, and golden bowls full of incense, which are the prayers of
the saints.

Genesis 8:20 ESV / 20 helpful votes

Then Noah built an altar to the LORD and took some of every clean animal and some of every
clean bird and offered burnt offerings on the altar.

Hebrews 13:10 ESV / 19 helpful votes

We have an altar from which those who serve the tent have no right to eat.

Genesis 35:1 ESV / 19 helpful votes

God said to Jacob, “Arise, go up to Bethel and dwell there. Make an altar there to the God who
appeared to you when you fled from your brother Esau.”

Acts 17:23 ESV / 18 helpful votes

For as I passed along and observed the objects of your worship, I found also an altar with this
inscription: ‘To the unknown god.’ What therefore you worship as unknown, this I proclaim to
you.

Hosea 8:11 ESV / 18 helpful votes

Because Ephraim has multiplied altars for sinning, they have become to him altars for sinning.

Psalm 23:1-6 ESV / 18 helpful votes

A Psalm of David. The LORD is my shepherd; I shall not want. He makes me lie down in green
pastures. He leads me beside still waters. He restores my soul. He leads me in paths of
righteousness for his name's sake. Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death,
I will fear no evil, for you are with me; your rod and your staff, they comfort me. You prepare a
table before me in the presence of my enemies; you anoint my head with oil; my cup
overflows. ...

Romans 12:1 ESV / 17 helpful votes

I appeal to you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living
sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship.

1 Kings 7:48 ESV / 17 helpful votes

So Solomon made all the vessels that were in the house of the LORD: the golden altar, the golden
table for the bread of the Presence,

Revelation 6:9 ESV / 16 helpful votes

When he opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of those who had been slain for the
word of God and for the witness they had borne.

Genesis 22:9 ESV / 15 helpful votes

When they came to the place of which God had told him, Abraham built the altar there and laid
the wood in order and bound Isaac his son and laid him on the altar, on top of the wood.

Revelation 16:7 ESV / 14 helpful votes

And I heard the altar saying, “Yes, Lord God the Almighty, true and just are your judgments!”

1 Kings 8:64 ESV / 14 helpful votes

The same day the king consecrated the middle of the court that was before the house of
the LORD, for there he offered the burnt offering and the grain offering and the fat pieces of the
peace offerings, because the bronze altar that was before the LORD was too small to receive the
burnt offering and the grain offering and the fat pieces of the peace offerings.

Exodus 20:25 ESV / 12 helpful votes

If you make me an altar of stone, you shall not build it of hewn stones, for if you wield your tool
on it you profane it.

Numbers 23:1 ESV / 11 helpful votes

And Balaam said to Balak, “Build for me here seven altars, and prepare for me here seven bulls
and seven rams.”

1 Corinthians 9:13 ESV / 10 helpful votes

Do you not know that those who are employed in the temple service get their food from the
temple, and those who serve at the altar share in the sacrificial offerings?

Exodus 30:9 ESV / 10 helpful votes

You shall not offer unauthorized incense on it, or a burnt offering, or a grain offering, and you
shall not pour a drink offering on it.

Revelation 6:9-11 ESV / 9 helpful votes

When he opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of those who had been slain for the
word of God and for the witness they had borne. They cried out with a loud voice, “O Sovereign
Lord, holy and true, how long before you will judge and avenge our blood on those who dwell on
the earth?” Then they were each given a white robe and told to rest a little longer, until the
number of their fellow servants and their brothers should be complete, who were to be killed as
they themselves had been.

John 14:6 ESV / 8 helpful votes

Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except
through me.

1 Kings 6:20 ESV / 8 helpful votes

The inner sanctuary was twenty cubits long, twenty cubits wide, and twenty cubits high, and he
overlaid it with pure gold. He also overlaid an altar of cedar.

Leviticus 6:12-13 ESV / 8 helpful votes

The fire on the altar shall be kept burning on it; it shall not go out. The priest shall burn wood on
it every morning, and he shall arrange the burnt offering on it and shall burn on it the fat of the
peace offerings. Fire shall be kept burning on the altar continually; it shall not go out.

2 Peter 3:9 ESV / 6 helpful votes

The Lord is not slow to fulfill his promise as some count slowness, but is patient toward you, not
wishing that any should perish, but that all should reach repentance.

Romans 1:16 ESV / 6 helpful votes

For I am not ashamed of the gospel, for it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who
believes, to the Jew first and also to the Greek.

John 3:16 ESV / 6 helpful votes

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not
perish but have eternal life.

Matthew 27:50-51 ESV / 6 helpful votes

And Jesus cried out again with a loud voice and yielded up his spirit. And behold, the curtain of
the temple was torn in two, from top to bottom. And the earth shook, and the rocks were split.

Matthew 25:41 ESV / 6 helpful votes

“Then he will say to those on his left, ‘Depart from me, you cursed, into the eternal fire prepared
for the devil and his angels.

Ezekiel 6:3 ESV / 6 helpful votes

And say, You mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord GOD! Thus says the Lord GOD to
the mountains and the hills, to the ravines and the valleys: Behold, I, even I, will bring a sword
upon you, and I will destroy your high places.

1 Samuel 14:35 ESV / 6 helpful votes

And Saul built an altar to the LORD; it was the first altar that he built to the LORD.

Deuteronomy 27:6 ESV / 6 helpful votes

You shall build an altar to the LORD your God of uncut stones. And you shall offer burnt
offerings on it to the LORD your God,

Numbers 4:11 ESV / 6 helpful votes

And over the golden altar they shall spread a cloth of blue and cover it with a covering of
goatskin, and shall put in its poles.

Exodus 39:39 ESV / 6 helpful votes

The bronze altar, and its grating of bronze, its poles, and all its utensils; the basin and its stand;

Exodus 30:1-6 ESV / 6 helpful votes

“You shall make an altar on which to burn incense; you shall make it of acacia wood. A cubit
shall be its length, and a cubit its breadth. It shall be square, and two cubits shall be its height. Its
horns shall be of one piece with it. You shall overlay it with pure gold, its top and around its
sides and its horns. And you shall make a molding of gold around it. And you shall make two
golden rings for it. Under its molding on two opposite sides of it you shall make them, and they
shall be holders for poles with which to carry it. You shall make the poles of acacia wood and
overlay them with gold. ...

Exodus 20:24-25 ESV / 6 helpful votes

An altar of earth you shall make for me and sacrifice on it your burnt offerings and your peace
offerings, your sheep and your oxen. In every place where I cause my name to be remembered I
will come to you and bless you. If you make me an altar of stone, you shall not build it of hewn
stones, for if you wield your tool on it you profane it.

Revelation 2:1-29 ESV / 5 helpful votes

“To the angel of the church in Ephesus write: ‘The words of him who holds the seven stars in his
right hand, who walks among the seven golden lampstands. “‘I know your works, your toil and
your patient endurance, and how you cannot bear with those who are evil, but have tested those
who call themselves apostles and are not, and found them to be false. I know you are enduring
patiently and bearing up for my name's sake, and you have not grown weary. But I have this
against you, that you have abandoned the love you had at first. Remember therefore from where
you have fallen; repent, and do the works you did at first. If not, I will come to you and remove
your lampstand from its place, unless you repent. ...

2 Corinthians 3:18 ESV / 5 helpful votes

And we all, with unveiled face, beholding the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the
same image from one degree of glory to another. For this comes from the Lord who is the Spirit.

Romans 10:10 ESV / 5 helpful votes

For with the heart one believes and is justified, and with the mouth one confesses and is saved.

John 6:44 ESV / 5 helpful votes

No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him. And I will raise him up on the
last day.

Matthew 23:1-39 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Then Jesus said to the crowds and to his disciples, “The scribes and the Pharisees sit on Moses'
seat, so do and observe whatever they tell you, but not the works they do. For they preach, but do
not practice. They tie up heavy burdens, hard to bear, and lay them on people's shoulders, but
they themselves are not willing to move them with their finger. They do all their deeds to be seen
by others. For they make their phylacteries broad and their fringes long, ...

Ezekiel 47:1 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Then he brought me back to the door of the temple, and behold, water was issuing from below
the threshold of the temple toward the east (for the temple faced east). The water was flowing
down from below the south end of the threshold of the temple, south of the altar.

Isaiah 56:7 ESV / 5 helpful votes

These I will bring to my holy mountain, and make them joyful in my house of prayer; their burnt
offerings and their sacrifices will be accepted on my altar; for my house shall be called a house
of prayer for all peoples.”

Psalm 73:17 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Until I went into the sanctuary of God; then I discerned their end.

2 Kings 23:12 ESV / 5 helpful votes

And the altars on the roof of the upper chamber of Ahaz, which the kings of Judah had made,
and the altars that Manasseh had made in the two courts of the house of the LORD, he pulled
down and broke in pieces and cast the dust of them into the brook Kidron.

2 Kings 16:4 ESV / 5 helpful votes

And he sacrificed and made offerings on the high places and on the hills and under every green
tree.

1 Kings 8:2 ESV / 5 helpful votes

And all the men of Israel assembled to King Solomon at the feast in the month Ethanim, which is
the seventh month.

Exodus 30:1 ESV / 5 helpful votes

“You shall make an altar on which to burn incense; you shall make it of acacia wood.
Romans 7:16-20 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Now if I do what I do not want, I agree with the law, that it is good. So now it is no longer I who
do it, but sin that dwells within me. For I know that nothing good dwells in me, that is, in my
flesh. For I have the desire to do what is right, but not the ability to carry it out. For I do not do
the good I want, but the evil I do not want is what I keep on doing. Now if I do what I do not
want, it is no longer I who do it, but sin that dwells within me.

Acts 17:10-11 ESV / 4 helpful votes

The brothers immediately sent Paul and Silas away by night to Berea, and when they arrived
they went into the Jewish synagogue. Now these Jews were more noble than those in
Thessalonica; they received the word with all eagerness, examining the Scriptures daily to see if
these things were so.

Acts 14:13 ESV / 4 helpful votes

And the priest of Zeus, whose temple was at the entrance to the city, brought oxen and garlands
to the gates and wanted to offer sacrifice with the crowds.

Acts 3:19 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Repent therefore, and turn back, that your sins may be blotted out,

Luke 15:7 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Just so, I tell you, there will be more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents than over ninety-
nine righteous persons who need no repentance.

Malachi 1:7 ESV / 4 helpful votes

By offering polluted food upon my altar. But you say, ‘How have we polluted you?’ By saying
that the LORD's table may be despised.

Amos 3:14 ESV / 4 helpful votes

“that on the day I punish Israel for his transgressions, I will punish the altars of Bethel, and the
horns of the altar shall be cut off and fall to the ground.

Ezekiel 41:22 ESV / 4 helpful votes

An altar of wood, three cubits high, two cubits long, and two cubits broad. Its corners, its base,
and its walls were of wood. He said to me, “This is the table that is before the LORD.”

Isaiah 27:9 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Therefore by this the guilt of Jacob will be atoned for, and this will be the full fruit of the
removal of his sin: when he makes all the stones of the altars like chalkstones crushed to pieces,
no Asherim or incense altars will remain standing.

Psalm 118:27 ESV / 4 helpful votes

The LORD is God, and he has made his light to shine upon us. Bind the festal sacrifice with
cords, up to the horns of the altar!

Ezra 3:6 ESV / 4 helpful votes

From the first day of the seventh month they began to offer burnt offerings to the LORD. But the
foundation of the temple of the LORD was not yet laid.

2 Chronicles 4:1 ESV / 4 helpful votes

He made an altar of bronze, twenty cubits long and twenty cubits wide and ten cubits high.

1 Kings 9:2 ESV / 4 helpful votes

The LORD appeared to Solomon a second time, as he had appeared to him at Gibeon.

1 Samuel 7:17 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Then he would return to Ramah, for his home was there, and there also he judged Israel. And he
built there an altar to the LORD.

Joshua 22:10 ESV / 4 helpful votes

And when they came to the region of the Jordan that is in the land of Canaan, the people of
Reuben and the people of Gad and the half-tribe of Manasseh built there an altar by the Jordan,
an altar of imposing size.

Exodus 30:10 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Aaron shall make atonement on its horns once a year. With the blood of the sin offering of
atonement he shall make atonement for it once in the year throughout your generations. It is most
holy to the LORD.”

Exodus 24:4 ESV / 4 helpful votes

And Moses wrote down all the words of the LORD. He rose early in the morning and built an
altar at the foot of the mountain, and twelve pillars, according to the twelve tribes of Israel.

Genesis 28:1-22 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Then Isaac called Jacob and blessed him and directed him, “You must not take a wife from the
Canaanite women. Arise, go to Paddan-aram to the house of Bethuel your mother's father, and
take as your wife from there one of the daughters of Laban your mother's brother. God Almighty
bless you and make you fruitful and multiply you, that you may become a company of peoples.
May he give the blessing of Abraham to you and to your offspring with you, that you may take
possession of the land of your sojournings that God gave to Abraham!” Thus Isaac sent Jacob
away. And he went to Paddan-aram, to Laban, the son of Bethuel the Aramean, the brother of
Rebekah, Jacob's and Esau's mother. ...

Genesis 13:18 ESV / 4 helpful votes

So Abram moved his tent and came and settled by the oaks of Mamre, which are at Hebron, and
there he built an altar to the LORD.

Colossians 3:16 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly, teaching and admonishing one another in all wisdom,
singing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, with thankfulness in your hearts to God.

Galatians 6:14 ESV / 3 helpful votes

But far be it from me to boast except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by which the world
has been crucified to me, and I to the world.

Romans 9:16 ESV / 3 helpful votes

So then it depends not on human will or exertion, but on God, who has mercy.

Matthew 18:21-22 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Then Peter came up and said to him, “Lord, how often will my brother sin against me, and I
forgive him? As many as seven times?” Jesus said to him, “I do not say to you seven times, but
seventy-seven times.

Matthew 5:23 ESV / 3 helpful votes

So if you are offering your gift at the altar and there remember that your brother has something
against you,

Psalm 141:2 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Let my prayer be counted as incense before you, and the lifting up of my hands as the evening
sacrifice!

1 Chronicles 15:8 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Of the sons of Elizaphan, Shemaiah the chief, with 200 of his brothers;

1 Chronicles 4:1 ESV / 3 helpful votes

The sons of Judah: Perez, Hezron, Carmi, Hur, and Shobal.

2 Kings 23:8 ESV / 3 helpful votes

And he brought all the priests out of the cities of Judah, and defiled the high places where the
priests had made offerings, from Geba to Beersheba. And he broke down the high places of the
gates that were at the entrance of the gate of Joshua the governor of the city, which were on one's
left at the gate of the city.

2 Kings 21:3 ESV / 3 helpful votes

For he rebuilt the high places that Hezekiah his father had destroyed, and he erected altars for
Baal and made an Asherah, as Ahab king of Israel had done, and worshiped all the host of
heaven and served them.

2 Kings 16:11 ESV / 3 helpful votes

And Uriah the priest built the altar; in accordance with all that King Ahaz had sent from
Damascus, so Uriah the priest made it, before King Ahaz arrived from Damascus.

2 Kings 16:1-20 ESV / 3 helpful votes

In the seventeenth year of Pekah the son of Remaliah, Ahaz the son of Jotham, king of Judah,
began to reign. Ahaz was twenty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned sixteen years
in Jerusalem. And he did not do what was right in the eyes of the LORD his God, as his father
David had done, but he walked in the way of the kings of Israel. He even burned his son as an
offering, according to the despicable practices of the nations whom the LORD drove out before
the people of Israel. And he sacrificed and made offerings on the high places and on the hills and
under every green tree. Then Rezin king of Syria and Pekah the son of Remaliah, king of Israel,
came up to wage war on Jerusalem, and they besieged Ahaz but could not conquer him. ...

1 Kings 18:31-46 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Elijah took twelve stones, according to the number of the tribes of the sons of Jacob, to whom
the word of the LORD came, saying, “Israel shall be your name,” and with the stones he built an
altar in the name of the LORD. And he made a trench about the altar, as great as would contain
two seahs of seed. And he put the wood in order and cut the bull in pieces and laid it on the
wood. And he said, “Fill four jars with water and pour it on the burnt offering and on the wood.”
And he said, “Do it a second time.” And they did it a second time. And he said, “Do it a third
time.” And they did it a third time. And the water ran around the altar and filled the trench also
with water. ...
1 Kings 16:14 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Now the rest of the acts of Elah and all that he did, are they not written in the Book of the
Chronicles of the Kings of Israel?

1 Kings 9:25 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Three times a year Solomon used to offer up burnt offerings and peace offerings on the altar that
he built to the LORD, making offerings with it before the LORD. So he finished the house.

Numbers 23:14 ESV / 3 helpful votes

And he took him to the field of Zophim, to the top of Pisgah, and built seven altars and offered a
bull and a ram on each altar.

Exodus 20:24-26 ESV / 3 helpful votes

An altar of earth you shall make for me and sacrifice on it your burnt offerings and your peace
offerings, your sheep and your oxen. In every place where I cause my name to be remembered I
will come to you and bless you. If you make me an altar of stone, you shall not build it of hewn
stones, for if you wield your tool on it you profane it. And you shall not go up by steps to my
altar, that your nakedness be not exposed on it.’

Genesis 13:4 ESV / 3 helpful votes

To the place where he had made an altar at the first. And there Abram called upon the name of
the LORD.

Genesis 12:8 ESV / 3 helpful votes

From there he moved to the hill country on the east of Bethel and pitched his tent, with Bethel on
the west and Ai on the east. And there he built an altar to the LORD and called upon the name of
the LORD.

Revelation 20:10 ESV / 2 helpful votes

And the devil who had deceived them was thrown into the lake of fire and sulfur where the beast
and the false prophet were, and they will be tormented day and night forever and ever.

1 Peter 1:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Since it is written, “You shall be holy, for I am holy.”

James 4:7 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.
2 Corinthians 6:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes

What agreement has the temple of God with idols? For we are the temple of the living God; as
God said, “I will make my dwelling among them and walk among them, and I will be their God,
and they shall be my people.

Luke 13:1-35 ESV / 2 helpful votes

There were some present at that very time who told him about the Galileans whose blood Pilate
had mingled with their sacrifices. And he answered them, “Do you think that these Galileans
were worse sinners than all the other Galileans, because they suffered in this way? No, I tell you;
but unless you repent, you will all likewise perish. Or those eighteen on whom the tower in
Siloam fell and killed them: do you think that they were worse offenders than all the others who
lived in Jerusalem? No, I tell you; but unless you repent, you will all likewise perish.” ...

Ezekiel 43:17 ESV / 2 helpful votes

The ledge also shall be square, fourteen cubits long by fourteen broad, with a rim around it half a
cubit broad, and its base one cubit all around. The steps of the altar shall face east.”

Ezekiel 43:13 ESV / 2 helpful votes

“These are the measurements of the altar by cubits (the cubit being a cubit and a handbreadth):
its base shall be one cubit high and one cubit broad, with a rim of one span around its edge. And
this shall be the height of the altar:

Jeremiah 52:17 ESV / 2 helpful votes

And the pillars of bronze that were in the house of the LORD, and the stands and the bronze sea
that were in the house of the LORD, the Chaldeans broke in pieces, and carried all the bronze to
Babylon.

2 Chronicles 4:19 ESV / 2 helpful votes

So Solomon made all the vessels that were in the house of God: the golden altar, the tables for
the bread of the Presence,

1 Chronicles 16:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes

And they brought in the ark of God and set it inside the tent that David had pitched for it, and
they offered burnt offerings and peace offerings before God.

1 Chronicles 7:7 ESV / 2 helpful votes

The sons of Bela: Ezbon, Uzzi, Uzziel, Jerimoth, and Iri, five, heads of fathers' houses, mighty
warriors. And their enrollment by genealogies was 22,034.
1 Kings 6:22 ESV / 2 helpful votes

And he overlaid the whole house with gold, until all the house was finished. Also the whole altar
that belonged to the inner sanctuary he overlaid with gold.

1 Kings 1:53 ESV / 2 helpful votes

So King Solomon sent, and they brought him down from the altar. And he came and paid
homage to King Solomon, and Solomon said to him, “Go to your house.