Matthew 12:7 - Douy-Rheims Bible Challoner Revision

⁷ 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

⁷ 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

⁷ 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)

⁷ But if ye had known what this meaneth, I desire mercy, and not sacrifice, ye would not have condemned the guiltless.

Common English Bible

⁷ If you had known what this means, I want mercy and not sacrifice, you wouldn’t have condemned the innocent.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁷ 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

⁷ 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.