Hosea 6:6

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

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

Cross References

Matthew 9:13

Go then and learn what this meaneth, I will have mercy and not sacrifice. For I am not come to call the just, but sinners.

Matthew 12:7

And if you knew what this meaneth: I will have mercy, and not sacrifice: you would never have condemned the innocent.

Proverbs 21:3

To do mercy and judgment, pleaseth the Lord more than victims.

1 Samuel 15:22

And Samuel said: Doth the Lord desire holocausts and victims, and not rather that the voice of the Lord should be obeyed? For obedience is better than sacrifices; and to hearken rather than to offer the fat of rams.

Amos 5:21

I hate, and have rejected your festivities: and I will not receive the odour of your assemblies.

Isaiah 1:11

To what purpose do you offer me the multitude of your victims, saith the Lord? I am full, I desire not holocausts of rams, and fat of fatlings, and blood of calves, and lambs, and buck goats.

Ecclesiastes 5:1

Speak not any thing rashly, and let not thy heart be hasty to utter a word before God. For God is in heaven, and thou upon earth: therefore let thy words be few.

Jeremiah 22:16

He judged the cause of the poor and needy for his own good. Was it not therefore because he knew me, saith the Lord?

Matthew 5:7

Blessed are the merciful: for they shall obtain mercy.

1 Chronicles 28:9

And thou, my son Solomon, know the God of thy father, and serve him with a perfect heart, and a willing mind. For the Lord searcheth all hearts, and understandeth all the thoughts of minds. If thou seek him, thou shalt find him: but if thou forsake him, he will cast thee off for ever.

Jeremiah 7:22

For I spoke not to your fathers, and I commanded them not, in the day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt, concerning the matter of burnt-offerings and sacrifices.

1 John 3:6

Whosoever abideth in him, sinneth not; and whosoever sinneth, hath not seen him, nor known him.

1 John 2:3

And by this we know that we have known him, if we keep his commandments.

Micah 6:6

What shall I offer to the Lord that is worthy? wherewith shall I kneel before the high God? shall I offer holocausts unto him, and calves of a year old?

Hosea 4:1

Hear the word of the Lord, ye children of Israel, for the Lord shall enter into judgment with the inhabitants of the land: for there is no truth, and there is no mercy, and there is no knowledge of God in the land.

Isaiah 58:6

Is not this rather the fast that I have chosen? Loose the bands of wickedness, undo the bundles that oppress. Let them that are broken go free: and break asunder every burden.

Hosea 2:20

And I will espouse thee to me in faith: and thou shalt know that I am the Lord.

Psalm 50:8

For behold thou hast loved truth: the uncertain and hidden things of thy wisdom thou hast made manifest to me.

Mark 12:33

And that he should be loved with the whole heart, and with the whole understanding, and with the whole soul, and with the whole strength; and to love one's neighbour as one's self, is a greater thing than all holocausts and sacrifices.

Hosea 14:2

Return, O Israel, to the Lord thy God: for thou hast fallen down by thy iniquity.

Micah 6:8

I will shew thee, O man, what is good, and what the Lord requireth of thee: Verily, to do judgment, and to love mercy, and to walk solicitous with thy God.

Joshua 5:5

Now these were all circumcised. But the people that were born in the desert,

Hosea 8:13

They shall offer victims, they shall sacrifice flesh, and shall eat it, and the Lord will not receive them: now will he remember their iniquity, and will visit their sins: they shall return to Egypt.