Amos 5:21-24

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²¹“I hate,^(A) I despise your religious festivals;^(B)
    your assemblies^(C) are a stench to me.
²²Even though you bring me burnt offerings^(D) and grain offerings,
    I will not accept them.^(E)
Though you bring choice fellowship offerings,
    I will have no regard for them.^(F)
²³Away with the noise of your songs!
    I will not listen to the music of your harps.^(G)
²⁴But let justice^(H) roll on like a river,
    righteousness^(I) like a never-failing stream!^(J)

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Matthew 12:3-7

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³He answered, “Haven’t you read what David did when he and his companions were hungry?^(A) ⁴He entered the house of God, and he and his companions ate the consecrated bread—which was not lawful for them to do, but only for the priests.^(B) ⁵Or haven’t you read in the Law that the priests on Sabbath duty in the temple desecrate the Sabbath^(C) and yet are innocent? ⁶I tell you that something greater than the temple is here.^(D) ⁷If you had known what these words mean, ‘I desire mercy, not sacrifice,’^[a]^(E) you would not have condemned the innocent.