Matthew 12:7 - English Majority Text Version 2009

But if you had known what this means, 'I desire mercy and not sacrifice,' you would not have condemned the guiltless.

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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

Matthew 22:29

Jesus answered and said to them, "You err, not knowing the Scriptures, nor the power of 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."

Mark 12:33

And to love Him with the whole heart, and with the whole 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."

Acts 13:27

For those dwelling in Jerusalem, and their rulers, because they did not know Him, nor the voices of the Prophets which are read according to each Sabbath, condemning [him], they fulfilled [the Scriptures.]

James 5:6

You have condemned; you have murdered the just[. ]He does not resist you.