Matthew 12:7 - Revised Standard Version CI

⁷ And 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

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.

Matthew 12:7 Cross References

Hosea 6:6

For I desire steadfast love and not sacrifice, the knowledge of God, rather than burnt offerings.

Matthew 9:13

Go and learn what this means, ‘I desire mercy, and not sacrifice.’ For I came not to call the righteous, but sinners.”

Proverbs 17:15

He who justifies the wicked and he who condemns the righteous are both alike an abomination to the Lord.

Acts 13:27

For those who live in Jerusalem and their rulers, because they did not recognize him nor understand the utterances of the prophets which are read every sabbath, fulfilled these by condemning him.

Matthew 22:29

But Jesus answered them, “You are wrong, because you know neither the scriptures nor the power of God.

Psalm 94:21

They band together against the life of the righteous, and condemn the innocent to death.

James 5:6

You have condemned, you have killed the righteous man; he does not resist you.

Psalm 109:31

For he stands at the right hand of the needy, to save him from those who condemn him to death.

Job 32:3

he was angry also at Job's three friends because they had found no answer, although they had declared Job to be in the wrong.

1 Samuel 15:22

And Samuel said, “Has 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.

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, is much more than all whole burnt offerings and sacrifices.”

Joshua 5:5

Though all the people who came out had been circumcised, yet all the people that were born on the way in the wilderness after they had come out of Egypt had not been circumcised.