Hosea 6:6 - The Scriptures 2009

⁶ “For I delight in loving-commitment and not slaughtering, and in the knowledge of Elohim more than ascending offerings.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁶ For I desired mercy, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁶ For I desire and delight in dutiful steadfast love and goodness, not sacrifice, and the knowledge of and acquaintance with God more than burnt offerings. [Matt. 9:13; 12:7.]

American Standard Version (1901)

⁶ For I desire goodness, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more than burnt-offerings.

Common English Bible

⁶ I desire faithful love and not sacrifice, the knowledge of God instead of entirely burned offerings.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁶ For I desired mercy and not sacrifice, and knowledge of God more than holocausts.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁶ For I desired mercy, and not sacrifice: and the knowledge of God more than holocausts.

Hosea 6:6 Cross References

1 Chronicles 28:9

“As for you, my son Shelomoh, know the Elohim of your father, and serve Him with a perfect heart and with a pleasing life, for יהוה searches all hearts and understands all the intent of the thoughts. If you do seek Him, He is found by you; but if you forsake Him, He rejects you forever.

Psalm 50:8

I do not reprove you for your slaughterings, And your ascending offerings are continually before Me.”

Proverbs 21:3

To do righteousness and right-ruling Is more acceptable to יהוה than a slaughtering.

Ecclesiastes 5:1

Guard your steps when you go to the House of Elohim. And draw near to listen rather than to give the slaughtering of fools, for they do not know that they do evil.

Isaiah 1:11

“Of what use to Me are your many slaughterings?” declares יהוה. “I have had enough of ascending offerings of rams and the fat of fed beasts. I do not delight in the blood of bulls, or of lambs or goats.

Isaiah 58:6

“Is this not the fast that I have chosen: to loosen the tight cords of wrongness, to undo the bands of the yoke, to exempt the oppressed, and to break off every yoke?

Jeremiah 22:16

“He defended the cause of the poor and needy – then it was well. Was this not to know Me?” declares יהוה.

Jeremiah 7:22

“For I did not speak to your fathers, or command them in the day that I brought them out of the land of Mitsrayim, about matters of ascending offerings or slaughterings.

Daniel 4:27

“Therefore, O sovereign, let my counsel be acceptable to you, and break off your sins by righteousness, and your crookednesses by showing favour to the poor – your prosperity might be extended.”

Hosea 14:2

Take words with you, and return to יהוה. Say to Him, “Take away all crookedness, and accept what is good, and we render the bulls of our lips.

Hosea 2:20

“And I shall take you as a bride unto Me in trustworthiness, and you shall know יהוה.

Hosea 4:1

Hear the word of יהוה, you children of Yisra’ĕl, for יהוה has a case against the inhabitants of the land: “For there is no truth or loving-commitment or knowledge of Elohim in the land.

Hosea 8:13

“As for My slaughterings: they slaughter flesh and they eat. יהוה shall not accept them. Now does He remember their crookedness and punish their sins. Let them return to Mitsrayim!

Amos 5:21

“I have hated, I have despised your festivals, and I am not pleased with your assemblies.

Micah 6:6

With what shall I come before יהוה, bow myself before the high Elohim? Shall I come before Him with ascending offerings, with calves a year old?

Micah 6:8

He has declared to you, O man, what is good. And what does יהוה require of you but to do right, and to love loving-commitment, and to walk humbly with your Elohim?

Matthew 12:7

“And if you had known what this means, ‘I desire compassion and not offering,’ you would not have condemned the blameless.

Matthew 5:7

“Blessed are the compassionate, because they shall obtain compassion.

Matthew 9:13

But go and learn what this means, ‘I desire compassion and not offering.’ For I did not come to call the righteous to repentance, but sinners.

Mark 12:33

“And to love Him with all the heart, and with all the understanding, and with all the being, and with all the strength, and to love one’s neighbour as oneself, is more than all the ascending offerings and offerings.”

Joshua 5:5

For all the people who came out had been circumcised, but all the people who were born in the wilderness on the way as they came out of Mitsrayim had not been circumcised.

1 John 2:3

And by this we know that we know Him, if we guard His commands.

1 John 3:6

Everyone staying in Him does not sin. Everyone sinning has neither seen Him nor known Him.

1 Samuel 15:22

Then Shemu’ĕl said, “Does יהוה delight in ascending offerings and slaughterings, as in obeying the voice of יהוה? Look, to obey is better than a slaughtering, to heed is better than the fat of rams.