But Samuel declared: “Does the LORD delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices as much as in obedience to His voice? Behold, obedience is better than sacrifice, and attentiveness is better than the fat of rams.
For I desire mercy, not sacrifice, and the knowledge of God rather than burnt offerings.
For You do not delight in sacrifice, or I would bring it; You take no pleasure in burnt offerings.
To do righteousness and justice is more desirable to the LORD than sacrifice.
“I hate, I despise your feasts! I cannot stand the stench of your solemn assemblies.
and to love Him with all your heart and with all your understanding and with all your strength, and to love your neighbo
But go and learn what this means: ‘I desire mercy, not sacrifice.’ For I have not come to call the righteous, but sinner
With what shall I come before the LORD when I bow before the God on high? Should I come to Him with burnt offerings, wit
For when I brought your fathers out of the land of Egypt, I did not merely command them about burnt offerings and sacrif
Sacrifice and offering You did not desire, but my ears You have opened. Burnt offerings and sin offerings You did not re
Guard your steps when you go to the house of God. Draw near to listen rather than to offer the sacrifice of fools, who d
“What good to Me is your multitude of sacrifices?” says the LORD. “I am full from the burnt offerings of rams and the fa
If only you had known the meaning of ‘I desire mercy, not sacrifice,’ you would not have condemned the innocent.
because it is impossible for the blood of bulls and goats to take away sins.
Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You pay tithes of mint, dill, and cumin. But you have disregarded the
I do not rebuke you for your sacrifices, and your burnt offerings are ever before Me.
leave your gift there before the altar. First go and be reconciled to your brother; then come and offer your gift.
So now, correct your ways and deeds, and obey the voice of the LORD your God, so that He might relent of the disaster He
Now if you will indeed obey My voice and keep My covenant, you will be My treasured possession out of all the nations—fo
For from the time I brought your fathers out of the land of Egypt until today, I strongly warned them again and again, s
which I commanded your forefathers when I brought them out of the land of Egypt, out of the iron furnace, saying, ‘Obey