Proverbs 21:3 - King James Version with Apocrypha - American Edition

To do justice and judgment is more acceptable to the Lord than sacrifice.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

To do justice and judgment Is more acceptable to the LORD than sacrifice.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

To do righteousness and justice is more acceptable to the Lord than sacrifice. [I Sam. 15:22; Prov. 15:8; Isa. 1:11; Hos. 6:6; Mic. 6:7, 8.]

American Standard Version (1901)

To do righteousness and justice Is more acceptable to Jehovah than sacrifice.

Common English Bible

Acting with righteousness and justice is more valued by the LORD than sacrifice.

Catholic Public Domain Version

To do mercy and judgment is more pleasing to the Lord than sacrifices.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

To do mercy and judgment, pleaseth the Lord more than victims.

Proverbs 21:3 Cross References

Psalm 40:7

Then said I, Lo, I come: in the volume of the book it is written of me,

Psalm 50:8

I will not reprove thee for thy sacrifices or thy burnt offerings, to have been continually before me.

Proverbs 15:8

The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination to the Lord: but the prayer of the upright is his delight.

Hosea 6:6

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

Zechariah 7:9

Thus speaketh the Lord of hosts, saying, Execute true judgment, and show mercy and compassions every man to his brother:

Mark 12:33

and to love him with all the heart, and with all the understanding, and with all the soul, and with all the strength, and to love his neighbor as himself, is more than all whole burnt offerings and sacrifices.

1 Samuel 15:22

And Samuel said, Hath the Lord as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices, as in obeying the voice of the Lord? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to hearken than the fat of rams.