Bible Cross References
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1 Samuel 15:22
And Samuel said, Does the Lord take [as great] pleasure in whole burnt offerings and sacrifices, as in hearing the words of the Lord? Behold, obedience is better than a good sacrifice, and hearkening than the fat of rams.
Psalm 50:8-15
8
I will not reprove you on account of your sacrifices; for your whole burnt offerings are before Me continually.
9
I will take no bulls out of your house, nor male goats out of your flocks.
10
For all the wild beasts of the thicket are Mine, the cattle on the mountains, and oxen.
11
I know all the birds of the sky; and the beauty of the field is Mine.
12
If I should be hungry, I will not tell you; for the world is Mine, and all its fullness.
13
Will I eat the flesh of bulls, or drink the blood of goats?
14
Offer to God the sacrifice of praise; and pay your vows to the Most High.
15
And call upon Me in the day of affliction; and I shall deliver you, and you shall glorify Me. Pause.
Psalm 50:23-15
Proverbs 21:3
To do justly and to speak truth are more pleasing to God than the blood of sacrifices.
Isaiah 1:11-17
11
Of what [value] to Me is the abundance of your sacrifices? Says the Lord; I am full of whole burnt offerings of rams; and I delight not in the fat of lambs, and the blood of bulls and goats;
12
neither shall you come [with these] to appear before Me; for who has required these things at your hands? You shall no more tread My court.
13
Though you bring fine flour, [it is] futile; incense is an abomination to Me; I cannot bear your new moons, and your Sabbaths, and the great day;
14
[your] fasting, and rest from work, your new moons also, and your feasts My soul hates; you have become loathsome to Me; I will no more pardon your sins.
15
When you stretch forth your hands, I will turn away My eyes from you; and though you make many supplications, I will not hearken to you; for your hands are full of blood.
16
Wash, and be clean; remove your iniquities from your souls before My eyes; cease from your iniquities;
17
learn to do well; diligently seek judgment, deliver him that is suffering wrong, plead for the orphan, and obtain justice for the widow.
Isaiah 58:5-7
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I have not chosen this fast, nor [such] a day for a man to afflict his soul; although you should bend down your neck as a ring, and spread under you sackcloth and ashes, neither thus shall you call a fast acceptable.
6
I have not chosen such a fast, says the Lord; but do you loose every burden of iniquity, do you untie the knots of hard bargains, set the bruised free, and cancel every unjust account?
7
Break your bread to the hungry, and lead the unsheltered poor to your house; if you see one naked, clothe [him], and you shall not disregard the relations of your own seed.
Jeremiah 7:21-23
21
Thus says the Lord, Gather your whole burnt offerings with your grain offerings, and eat flesh.
22
For I spoke not to your fathers, and commanded them not in the day that I brought them up out of the land of Egypt, concerning whole burnt offerings and sacrifice;
23
but I commanded them this thing, saying, Hear My voice, and I will be your God, and you shall be My people. And walk in all My ways which I shall command you, that it may be well with you.
Hosea 6:6
For I desire mercy rather than sacrifice, and the knowledge of God rather than whole burnt offerings.
Amos 5:21-24
21
I hate, I reject your feasts, and I will not smell your grain offerings in your general assemblies.
22
Wherefore if you should bring Me your whole burnt sacrifices and grain offerings, I will not accept them, neither will I have respect to your grand peace offerings.
23
Remove from Me the sound of your songs, and I will not hear the music of your instruments.
24
But let judgment roll down as water, and righteousness as an impassable torrent.
Micah 6:6-8
6
With what shall I reach the Lord, and lay hold of my God most high? Shall I reach Him by whole burnt offerings, by calves of a year old?
7
Will the Lord accept thousands of rams, or ten thousands of fat goats? Should I give my first born for ungodliness, the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul?
8
Has it not been told you, O man, what is good? Or what does the Lord require of you, but to do justice, and love mercy, and be ready to walk with the Lord your God?
Matthew 9:13
But go and learn what this means: 'I desire mercy and not sacrifice.' For I did not come to call [the] righteous, but sinners, to repentance."
Matthew 12:7
But if you had known what this means, 'I desire mercy and not sacrifice,' you would not have condemned the guiltless.
1 Corinthians 13:1-3
1
Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I have become [as] sounding brass or a clashing cymbal.
2
And though I have [the gift of] prophecy, and know all mysteries and all knowledge, and though I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing.
3
And though I give away all my possessions to feed [the poor], and though I deliver up my body to be burned, but have not love, it profits me nothing.