⁶ For I desired mercy, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings.

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.

⁷ But if ye had known what this meaneth, I will have mercy, and not sacrifice, ye would not have condemned the guiltless.

³ To do justice and judgment is more acceptable to the Lord than sacrifice.

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.

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.

²¹ I hate, I despise your feast days, and I will not smell in your solemn assemblies.

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.

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.

⁷ Blessed are the merciful: for they shall obtain mercy.