Jeremiah 7:22

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

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.

Cross References

Hosea 6:6

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

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.

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.

Psalm 40:6

My enemies have spoken evils against me: when shall he die and his name perish?

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.

Deuteronomy 17:3

So as to go and serve strange gods, and adore them, the sun and the moon, and all the host of heaven, which I have not commanded:

Jeremiah 32:30

For the children of Israel and the children of Juda have continually done evil in my eyes from their youth: the children of Israel who even till now provoke me with the work of their hands, saith the Lord.