Proverbs 21:3 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

To do righteousness and justice 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 I said, “Here I am; in the scroll of the book it is written of me.

Psalm 50:8

Not for your sacrifices do I rebuke you; your burnt offerings are 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 desire steadfast love and not sacrifice, the knowledge of God rather than burnt offerings.

Zechariah 7:9

“Thus says the Lord of hosts: Render true judgments, show kindness and mercy to one another;

Mark 12:33

and ‘to love him with all the heart and with all the understanding and with all the strength’ and ‘to love one’s neighbor as oneself’—this is much more important than all whole burnt offerings and sacrifices.”

1 Samuel 15:22

And Samuel said, “Has the Lord as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices as in obedience to the voice of the Lord? Surely, to obey is better than sacrifice and to heed than the fat of rams.