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What Does God Want From Us?

In the Bible, the prophet Micah said:

How God wants his people to please him

6 When I come to meet the Lord,

6:6Micah speaks on behalf of Israel's people. He wants to know how to please God.

what offering should I bring with me?

I bend down low to worship him, the mighty God.

Should I bring calves that are one year old

to make burnt offerings to him?

7 Perhaps he will accept a gift of a thousand male sheep,

or ten thousand rivers of olive oil.

I have turned against God.

Should I offer to God my firstborn son to pay for my sin?

If I give my own child to him as a sacrifice,

will that be enough to pay for my sin?

8 No! The Lord has told each of you what is good.

He has shown you how he wants you to live.

You must do what is right and fair.

You must always be kind to other people.

And you must be careful to obey your God.

6:8Micah replies on God's behalf. God wanted the people to live in a good way and obey him. That is the gift that would please him most.

Micah 6:6-8 EasyEnglish Bible (EASY)

In the Bible, the apostle John wrote:

Jesus died so that God could forgive our sins

1 I am writing this letter to you, my friends who are like my little children. I am writing to you because I do not want you to do wrong things. But if anyone among you does something wrong, there is someone who will speak to God on our behalf. That person is Jesus Christ, who always does only what is right. He will ask our Father God to forgive you. 2 Jesus died as a sacrifice to take the punishment for our sin. Then God could forgive us. Jesus did that not only for us. He did it for all people in the world, so that God could forgive them for their sins.

1 John 2:1-2 EasyEnglish Bible (EASY)

To find out more about how to please God, see: What is a Christian?