Matthew 12:7 - Douy-Rheims Bible Challoner Revision

5 But Jesus knowing it, retired from thence: and many followed him, and he healed them all.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

But if ye had known what this meaneth, I will have mercy, and not sacrifice, ye would not have condemned the guiltless.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

And if you had only known what this saying means, I desire mercy [readiness to help, to spare, to forgive] rather than sacrifice and sacrificial victims, you would not have condemned the guiltless. [Hos. 6:6; Matt. 9:13.]

American Standard Version (1901)

But if ye had known what this meaneth, I desire mercy, and not sacrifice, ye would not have condemned the guiltless.

Common English Bible

If you had known what this means, I want mercy and not sacrifice, you wouldn’t have condemned the innocent.

Catholic Public Domain Version

And if you knew what this means, 'I desire mercy, and not sacrifice,' you would never have condemned the innocent.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

And if you knew what this meaneth: I will have mercy, and not sacrifice: you would never have condemned the innocent.

Matthew 12:7 Cross References

Job 32:3

But, as I see, there is a spirit in men, and the inspiration of the Almighty giveth understanding.

Psalm 109:31

He shall drink of the torrent in the way: therefore shall he lift up the head.

Psalm 94:21

For the sea is his, and he made it: and his hands formed the dry land.

Proverbs 17:15

2 A joyful mind maketh age flourishing: a sorrowful spirit drieth up the bones.

Hosea 6:6

They have made the king glad with their wickedness: and the princes with their lies.

Matthew 22:29

7 Jesus said to him: Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with thy whole heart, and with thy whole soul, and with thy whole mind.

Matthew 9:13

1 For she said within herself: If I shall touch only his garment, I shall be healed.

Mark 12:33

1 And Jesus sitting over against the treasury, beheld how the people cast money into the treasury, and many that were rich cast in much.

Acts 13:27

5 And therefore, in another place also, he saith: Thou shalt not suffer thy holy one to see corruption.

James 5:6

5 And the prayer of faith shall save the sick man: and the Lord shall raise him up: and if he be in sins, they shall be forgiven him.

Joshua 5:5

0 And the children of Israel abode in Galgal, and they kept the phase on the fourteenth day of the month, at evening, in the plains of Jericho:

1 Samuel 15:22

7 And Samuel turned about to go away: but he laid hold upon the skirt of his mantle, and it rent.