For I desired mercy, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings. Treasury of Scripture I desired. 1 Samuel 15:22 And Samuel said, Has the LORD as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices, as in obeying the voice of the LORD? Behold... Psalm 50:8 I will not reprove you for your sacrifices or your burnt offerings, to have been continually before me. Proverbs 21:3 To do justice and judgment is more acceptable to the LORD than sacrifice. Ecclesiastes 5:1 Keep your foot when you go to the house of God, and be more ready to hear, than to give the sacrifice of fools... Isaiah 1:11 To what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices to me? said the LORD: I am full of the burnt offerings of rams... Isaiah 58:6 Is not this the fast that I have chosen? to loose the bands of wickedness, to undo the heavy burdens, and to let the oppressed go free... Jeremiah 7:22 For I spoke not to your fathers, nor commanded them in the day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt... Daniel 4:27 Why, O king, let my counsel be acceptable to you, and break off your sins by righteousness... Amos 5:21 I hate, I despise your feast days, and I will not smell in your solemn assemblies. Micah 6:6 With which shall I come before the LORD, and bow myself before the high God? shall I come before him with burnt offerings... Matthew 5:7 Blessed are the merciful: for they shall obtain mercy. Matthew 9:13 But go you and learn what that means, I will have mercy, and not sacrifice: for I am not come to call the righteous... Matthew 12:7 But if you had known what this means, I will have mercy, and not sacrifice, you would not have condemned the guiltless. the. Hosea 4:1 Hear the word of the LORD, you children of Israel: for the LORD has a controversy with the inhabitants of the land... 1 Chronicles 28:9 And you, Solomon my son, know you the God of your father, and serve him with a perfect heart and with a willing mind... Jeremiah 22:16 He judged the cause of the poor and needy; then it was well with him: was not this to know me? said the LORD. 1 John 2:3 And hereby we do know that we know him, if we keep his commandments. 1 John 3:6 Whoever stays in him sins not: whoever sins has not seen him, neither known him.
Context Israel and Judah Are Unrepentant
1Come, and let us return to the LORD: for he has torn, and he will heal us; he has smitten, and he will bind us up. 2After two days will he revive us: in the third day he will raise us up, and we shall live in his sight. 3Then shall we know, if we follow on to know the LORD: his going forth is prepared as the morning; and he shall come to us as the rain, as the latter and former rain to the earth. 4O Ephraim, what shall I do to you? O Judah, what shall I do to you? for your goodness is as a morning cloud, and as the early dew it goes away. 5Therefore have I hewed them by the prophets; I have slain them by the words of my mouth: and your judgments are as the light that goes forth. 6For I desired mercy, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings. 7But they like men have transgressed the covenant: there have they dealt treacherously against me. 8Gilead is a city of them that work iniquity, and is polluted with blood. 9And as troops of robbers wait for a man, so the company of priests murder in the way by consent: for they commit lewdness. 10I have seen an horrible thing in the house of Israel: there is the prostitution of Ephraim, Israel is defiled. 11Also, O Judah, he has set an harvest for you, when I returned the captivity of my people. Parallel Verses American Standard Version
For I desire goodness, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more than burnt-offerings.
Douay-Rheims Bible
For I desired mercy, and not sacrifice: and the knowledge of God more than holocausts.
Darby Bible Translation
For I delight in loving-kindness, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more than burnt-offerings.
King James Bible
For I desired mercy, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings.
Young's Literal Translation
For kindness I desired, and not sacrifice, And a knowledge of God above burnt-offerings.
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