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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Matthew 5:7
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7 Blessed are the merciful: for they shall obtain mercy.
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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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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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Hosea 4:1
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4 Hear the word of the Lord, ye children of Israel: for the Lord hath a controversy with the inhabitants of the land, because there is no truth, nor mercy, nor knowledge of God in the land.
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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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1 John 3:6
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6 Whosoever abideth in him sinneth not: whosoever sinneth hath not seen him, neither known him.
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1 John 2:3
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3 And hereby we do know that we know him, if we keep his commandments.
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Micah 6:6
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6 Wherewith shall I come before the Lord, and bow myself before the high God? shall I come before him with burnt offerings, with calves of a year old?
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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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Isaiah 58:6
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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, and that ye break every yoke?
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Psalm 50:8
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8 I will not reprove thee for thy sacrifices or thy burnt offerings, to have been continually before me.
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Hosea 2:20
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20 I will even betroth thee unto me in faithfulness: and thou shalt know the Lord.
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