Matthew 12:7

Catholic Public Domain Version

And if you knew what this means, 'I desire mercy, and not sacrifice,' you would never have condemned the innocent.

Cross References

Job 32:3

Moreover, he was indignant with his friends because they had not found a reasonable response, except in so far as they condemned Job.

Proverbs 17:15

Those who justify the impious, and those who condemn the just, both are abominable with God.

Hosea 6:6

For I desired mercy and not sacrifice, and knowledge of God more than holocausts.

Matthew 22:29

But Jesus responded to them by saying: "You have gone astray by knowing neither the Scriptures, nor the power of God.

Matthew 9:13

So then, go out and learn what this means: 'I desire mercy and not sacrifice.' For I have not come to call the just, but sinners."

Mark 12:33

and that he should be loved from the whole heart, and from the whole understanding, and from the whole soul, and from the whole strength. And to love one's neighbor as one's self is greater than all holocausts and sacrifices."

Acts 13:27

For those who were living in Jerusalem, and its rulers, heeding neither him, nor the voices of the Prophets that are read on every Sabbath, fulfilled these by judging him.

James 5:6

You led away and killed the Just One, and he did not resist you.

Joshua 5:5

all these had been circumcised. But the people who were born in the desert,

1 Samuel 15:22

And Samuel said: "Does the Lord want holocausts and victims, and not instead that the voice of the Lord should be obeyed? For obedience is better than sacrifice. And to heed is greater than to offer the fat of rams.