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1 Samuel 15:22
And Samuel said: Has Jehovah as great a delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices, as in to obey the voice of Jehovah? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to heed than the fat of rams.
Psalm 50:8-15
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I will not reprove you for your sacrifices, or your burnt offerings, which are continually before Me.
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I will take no bull out of your house, nor goats out of your folds;
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for every beast of the forest is Mine, and the cattle on a thousand hills.
11
I know all the birds of the mountains; and the wild beasts of the field are Mine.
12
If I were hungry, I would not tell you, for the world is Mine, and the fullness of it.
13
Will I eat the flesh of the mighty, or drink the blood of goats?
14
Offer to God thanksgiving, and make good your vows to the Most High,
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and call on Me in the day of trouble; and I will deliver you, and you shall glorify Me.
Psalm 50:23-15
Proverbs 21:3
With Jehovah, to do righteousness and justice is to be chosen over sacrifice.
Isaiah 1:11-17
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What good to Me are your many sacrifices, says Jehovah? I have had enough of burnt offerings of rams, and the fat of well-fed cattle; nor do I delight in the blood of bulls, of lambs, or he goats.
12
When you come to appear before Me, who has required this at your hand, to trample My courts?
13
Bring no more vain sacrifices; its incense is an abomination to Me. I cannot endure the new moon and sabbath, the calling of assemblies, and the wicked festivals.
14
My soul hates your new moons and your appointed feasts. They are a burden to Me; I am weary of bearing them.
15
And when you spread out your hands, I will hide My eyes from you. Even though you multiply prayers, I will not hear. Your hands are full of blood.
16
Wash yourselves, purify yourselves. Put away the evil of your doings from My eyes; stop doing evil.
17
Learn to do good, seek justice, set straight the oppressor, judge for the orphan, plead for the widow.
Isaiah 58:5-7
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Is it such a fast that I have chosen? A day for a man to afflict his soul? Is it to bow down his head like a bulrush, and to spread sackcloth and ashes under him? Will you call this a fast and a day pleasing to Jehovah?
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Is not this the fast that I have chosen: To loose the bonds of wickedness, to undo the heavy burdens, and to let the oppressed go free, and that you break every yoke?
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Is it not to break your bread to the hungry, and that you should bring home the wandering poor? When you see the naked to cover him; and not hide yourself from your own flesh?
Jeremiah 7:21-23
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Thus says Jehovah of Hosts, the God of Israel: Snatch away your burnt offerings from your sacrifices, and eat flesh.
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For I did not speak to your fathers, nor command them in the day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt, concerning burnt offerings or sacrifices.
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But this is what I commanded them, saying, Obey My voice, and I will be your God, and you shall be My people; and walk in all the ways that I have commanded you, so that it may be well with you.
Hosea 6:6
For I desire mercy, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings.
Amos 5:21-24
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I hate, I despise your feast days; and I will not savor your solemn assemblies.
22
Though you offer Me burnt offerings and your grain offerings, I will not be pleased; nor will I regard the peace offerings of your fat animals.
23
Take away from Me the noise of your songs; for I will not hear the melody of your lutes.
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But let justice flow down like waters, and righteousness like an ever-flowing stream.
Micah 6:6-8
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With what shall I come before Jehovah, to bow myself before the loftiness of God? Shall I come before Him with burnt offerings, with yearling calves?
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Will Jehovah be pleased with thousands of rams, with ten thousands of rivers of oil? Shall I give my firstborn for my transgression, the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul?
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O man, He has declared to you what is good. And what does Jehovah require of you, but to do justice, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with 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
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If I were to speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I have become as sounding brass or a clanging cymbal.
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And if I were to have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I were to have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing.
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And if I were to bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and if I were to give my body to be burned, but have not love, it profits me nothing.