Bible Cross References
Hath the Lord
Psalm 50:8
I will not reprove you for your sacrifices, or your burnt offerings, which are continually before Me.
Psalm 50:9
I will take no bull out of your house, nor goats out of your folds;
Psalm 51:16
For You do not desire sacrifice, or else I would give it; You do not delight in burnt offering.
Psalm 51:17
The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit; a broken and a contrite heart, O God, You will not despise.
Proverbs 21:3
With Jehovah, to do righteousness and justice is to be chosen over sacrifice.
Isaiah 1:11-17
11
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.
Jeremiah 7:22
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.
Jeremiah 7:23
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
21
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.
24
But let justice flow down like waters, and righteousness like an ever-flowing stream.
Micah 6:6-8
6
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?
7
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?
8
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.
Matthew 23:23
Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you pay tithe of mint and anise and cumin, and have disregarded the weightier matters of the law: judgment and mercy and faith. It is necessary to do these, and not to leave the others undone.
Hebrews 10:4-10
4
For it is not possible for the blood of bulls and goats to take away sins.
5
Therefore, when He came into the world, He said: Sacrifice and offering You did not desire, but a body You have prepared for Me.
6
You did not take pleasure in burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin.
7
Then I said, Behold, I have come (In the volume of the book it is written of Me) to do Your will, O God.
8
Previously saying, Sacrifice and offering, burnt offerings, and offerings for sin You did not desire, nor were pleased with them (which are offered according to the Law),
9
then He said, Behold, I have come to do Your will, O God. He takes away the first in order that He may establish the second.
10
By which will we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.
obey
Exodus 19:5
Now therefore, if you will listen to obey My voice and keep My covenant, then you shall be a special treasure to Me above all people; for all the earth is Mine.
Ecclesiastes 5:1
Guard your feet when you go to the house of God, and be more ready to hear than to give the sacrifice of fools. For they do not know that they are doing evil.
Jeremiah 7:23
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.
Jeremiah 11:4
which I commanded your fathers in the day that I brought them forth out of the land of Egypt, from the iron furnace, saying, Obey My voice and do according to all that I command you; so you shall be My people, and I will be your God;
Jeremiah 11:7
For I admonished and testified to your fathers in the day that I brought them up out of the land of Egypt, until this day, rising early and exhorting, saying, Obey My voice.
Jeremiah 26:13
Now therefore, make your ways and your doings good, and obey the voice of Jehovah your God. And Jehovah will show compassion regarding the evil that He has spoken against you.
Hosea 6:6
For I desire mercy, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings.
Matthew 5:24
leave your gift there before the altar, and go your way. First be reconciled to your brother, and then come and offer your gift.
Mark 12:33
And to love Him with all the heart, with all the understanding, with all the soul, and with all the strength, and to love one's neighbor as oneself, is more than all the whole burnt offerings and sacrifices.