Psalm 51:16

Bible in Basic English 1965

You have no desire for an offering or I would give it; you have no delight in burned offerings.

Cross References

2 Samuel 12:9

Why then have you had no respect for the word of the Lord, doing what is evil in his eyes? You have put Uriah the Hittite to death with the sword, and have taken his wife to be your wife; you have put him to death with the sword of the children of Ammon.

Psalm 40:6

You had no desire for offerings of beasts or fruits of the earth; ears you made for me: for burned offerings and sin offerings you made no request.

Psalm 50:8

I will not take up a cause against you because of your offerings, or because of your burned offerings, which are ever before me.

Psalm 51:6

Your desire is for what is true in the inner parts: in the secrets of my soul you will give me knowledge of wisdom.

Psalm 71:15

My mouth will make clear your righteousness and your salvation all the day; for they are more than may be measured.

Exodus 21:14

But if a man makes an attack on his neighbour on purpose, to put him to death by deceit, you are to take him from my altar and put him to death.

Proverbs 15:8

The offering of the evil-doer is disgusting to the Lord, but the prayer of the upright man is his delight.

Proverbs 21:27

The offering of evil-doers is disgusting: how much more when they give it with an evil purpose!

Jeremiah 7:27

And you are to say all these words to them, but they will not give ear to you: you will send out your voice to them, but they will give no answer.

Hosea 6:6

Because my desire is for mercy and not offerings; for the knowledge of God more than for burned offerings.

Numbers 15:27

And if one person does wrong, without being conscious of it, then let him give a she-goat of the first year for a sin-offering.

Numbers 35:31

Further, no price may be given for the life of one who has taken life and whose right reward is death: he is certainly to be put to death.

Deuteronomy 22:22

If a man is taken in the act of going in to a married woman, the two of them, the man as well as the woman, are to be put to death: so you are to put away the evil from Israel.

1 Samuel 15:22

And Samuel said, Has the Lord as much delight in offerings and burned offerings as in the doing of his orders? Truly, to do his pleasure is better than to make offerings, and to give ear to him than the fat of sheep.