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Hosea 6:6
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Hosea 6:6
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Hosea 6:6
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Hosea 6:6
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6 For I desired mercy, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings.
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Matthew 9:13
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Matthew 9:13
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13 But go and learn what this means: ‘I desire mercy, not sacrifice.’[a](A) For I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners.”(B)
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- Matthew 9:13 Hosea 6:6
Matthew 9:13
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Matthew 9:13
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13 But go ye and learn what that meaneth, I will have mercy, and not sacrifice: for I am not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.
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Matthew 12:7
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Matthew 12:7
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7 If you had known what these words mean, ‘I desire mercy, not sacrifice,’[a](A) you would not have condemned the innocent.
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- Matthew 12:7 Hosea 6:6
Matthew 12:7
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Matthew 12:7
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7 But if ye had known what this meaneth, I will have mercy, and not sacrifice, ye would not have condemned the guiltless.
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Proverbs 21:3
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Proverbs 21:3
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3 To do what is right and just
is more acceptable to the Lord than sacrifice.(A)
Proverbs 21:3
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Proverbs 21:3
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3 To do justice and judgment is more acceptable to the Lord than sacrifice.
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1 Samuel 15:22
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1 Samuel 15:22
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22 But Samuel replied:
“Does the Lord delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices
as much as in obeying the Lord?
To obey is better than sacrifice,(A)
and to heed is better than the fat of rams.
1 Samuel 15:22
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1 Samuel 15:22
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22 And Samuel said, Hath the Lord as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices, as in obeying the voice of the Lord? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to hearken than the fat of rams.
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Isaiah 1:11
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Isaiah 1:11
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Isaiah 1:11
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Isaiah 1:11
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11 To what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices unto me? saith the Lord: I am full of the burnt offerings of rams, and the fat of fed beasts; and I delight not in the blood of bullocks, or of lambs, or of he goats.
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Amos 5:21
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Amos 5:21
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Amos 5:21
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Amos 5:21
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21 I hate, I despise your feast days, and I will not smell in your solemn assemblies.
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Ecclesiastes 5:1
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Ecclesiastes 5:1
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Fulfill Your Vow to God
5 [a]Guard your steps when you go to the house of God. Go near to listen rather than to offer the sacrifice of fools, who do not know that they do wrong.
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- Ecclesiastes 5:1 In Hebrew texts 5:1 is numbered 4:17, and 5:2-20 is numbered 5:1-19.
Ecclesiastes 5:1
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Ecclesiastes 5:1
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5 Keep thy foot when thou goest to the house of God, and be more ready to hear, than to give the sacrifice of fools: for they consider not that they do evil.
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Jeremiah 22:16
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Jeremiah 22:16
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Jeremiah 22:16
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Jeremiah 22:16
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16 He judged the cause of the poor and needy; then it was well with him: was not this to know me? saith the Lord.
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Matthew 5:7
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Matthew 5:7
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7 Blessed are the merciful,
for they will be shown mercy.(A)
Matthew 5:7
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Matthew 5:7
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7 Blessed are the merciful: for they shall obtain mercy.
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Daniel 4:27
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Daniel 4:27
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Daniel 4:27
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Daniel 4:27
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27 Wherefore, O king, let my counsel be acceptable unto thee, and break off thy sins by righteousness, and thine iniquities by shewing mercy to the poor; if it may be a lengthening of thy tranquillity.
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1 Chronicles 28:9
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1 Chronicles 28:9
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9 “And you, my son Solomon, acknowledge the God of your father, and serve him with wholehearted devotion(A) and with a willing mind, for the Lord searches every heart(B) and understands every desire and every thought. If you seek him,(C) he will be found by you; but if you forsake(D) him, he will reject(E) you forever.
1 Chronicles 28:9
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1 Chronicles 28:9
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9 And thou, Solomon my son, know thou the God of thy father, and serve him with a perfect heart and with a willing mind: for the Lord searcheth all hearts, and understandeth all the imaginations of the thoughts: if thou seek him, he will be found of thee; but if thou forsake him, he will cast thee off for ever.
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Jeremiah 7:22
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Jeremiah 7:22
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22 For when I brought your ancestors out of Egypt and spoke to them, I did not just give them commands(A) about burnt offerings and sacrifices,(B)
Jeremiah 7:22
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Jeremiah 7:22
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22 For I spake not unto your fathers, nor commanded them in the day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt, concerning burnt offerings or sacrifices:
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