приносить жертву(The high priest entered the Holy Place alone to offer the sacrifice, but people gathered outside and listened to the sound Andrey Truhachev)
претерпевать(страдания, жизненные трудности ради душ усопших, ради возрастания в праведности, искупления грехов. Смысл этого выражения можно передать поговоркой: "Бог терпел и нам велел". Андрей Шагин)
совершать человеческие жертвоприношения(to: They plundered the country around but found little spoil; some of the poor natives they took prisoners, as the time for holding their yearly festival was at hand, to offer up human sacrifices to Thor and Woden. As they passed along they came upon the trace of a boar. They hunted it around Wildboarclough, but with what success is not known.wordpress.comART Vancouver)