For I desired [a]mercy, and not sacrifice, and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings.

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  1. Hosea 6:6 He showeth to what scope his doctrine tended, that they should join the obedience of God, and the love of their neighbor with outward sacrifices.

For I desire mercy, not sacrifice,(A)
    and acknowledgment(B) of God rather than burnt offerings.(C)

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But they [a]like men have transgressed the covenant: there have they trespassed against me.

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  1. Hosea 6:7 That is, like light and weak persons.

As at Adam,[a] they have broken the covenant;(A)
    they were unfaithful(B) to me there.

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  1. Hosea 6:7 Or Like Adam; or Like human beings

13 But go ye and learn what this is, (A)I will have mercy, and not sacrifice: for I am not come to call the righteous, but the (B)sinners to repentance.

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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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  1. Matthew 9:13 Hosea 6:6

Wherefore if ye knew what this is, (A)I will have mercy and not sacrifice, ye would not have condemned the innocents.

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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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  1. Matthew 12:7 Hosea 6:6