Matthew 9:13
New King James Version
13 But go and learn what this means: (A)‘I desire mercy and not sacrifice.’ For I did not come to call the righteous, (B)but sinners, [a]to repentance.”
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- Matthew 9:13 NU omits to repentance
Matthew 12:7
New King James Version
7 But if you had known what this means, (A)‘I desire mercy and not sacrifice,’ you would not have condemned the guiltless.
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1 Samuel 15:22
New King James Version
22 So Samuel said:
(A)“Has the Lord as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices,
As in obeying the voice of the Lord?
Behold, (B)to obey is better than sacrifice,
And to heed than the fat of rams.
Proverbs 21:3
New King James Version
3 (A)To do righteousness and justice
Is more acceptable to the Lord than sacrifice.
Isaiah 1:11
New King James Version
11 “To what purpose is the multitude of your (A)sacrifices to Me?”
Says the Lord.
“I have had enough of burnt offerings of rams
And the fat of fed cattle.
I do not delight in the blood of bulls,
Or of lambs or goats.
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