Jeremiah 7:22
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22 For in the day that I brought your ancestors out of the land of Egypt, I did not speak to them or command them concerning burnt offerings and sacrifices.(A)
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Hosea 6:6
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6 For I desire steadfast love and not sacrifice,
the knowledge of God rather than burnt offerings.(A)
Psalm 51:16-17
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16 For you have no delight in sacrifice;
if I were to give a burnt offering, you would not be pleased.(A)
17 The sacrifice acceptable to God[a] is a broken spirit;
a broken and contrite heart, O God, you will not despise.(B)
Footnotes
- 51.17 Or My sacrifice, O God,
1 Samuel 15:22
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22 And Samuel said,
“Has the Lord as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices
as in obedience to the voice of the Lord?
Surely, to obey is better than sacrifice
and to heed than the fat of rams.(A)
Matthew 9:13
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13 Go and learn what this means, ‘I desire mercy, not sacrifice.’ For I have not come to call the righteous but sinners.”(A)
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Psalm 50:8-17
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8 Not for your sacrifices do I rebuke you;
your burnt offerings are continually before me.(A)
9 I will not accept a bull from your house
or goats from your folds.(B)
10 For every wild animal of the forest is mine,
the cattle on a thousand hills.(C)
11 I know all the birds of the air,[a]
and all that moves in the field is mine.
12 “If I were hungry, I would not tell you,
for the world and all that is in it is mine.(D)
13 Do I eat the flesh of bulls
or drink the blood of goats?
14 Offer to God a sacrifice of thanksgiving,[b]
and pay your vows to the Most High.(E)
15 Call on me in the day of trouble;
I will deliver you, and you shall glorify me.”(F)
16 But to the wicked God says,
“What right have you to recite my statutes
or take my covenant on your lips?(G)
17 For you hate discipline,
and you cast my words behind you.(H)
Psalm 40:6
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6 Sacrifice and offering you do not desire,
but you have given me an open ear.[a]
Burnt offering and sin offering
you have not required.(A)
Footnotes
- 40.6 Heb ears you have dug for me
Mark 12:33
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33 and ‘to love him with all the heart and with all the understanding and with all the strength’ and ‘to love one’s neighbor as oneself’—this is much more important than all whole burnt offerings and sacrifices.”(A)
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