Mark 12:33

Hebrew Names version (HNV)

and to love him with all the heart, and with all the understanding, with all the soul, and with all the strength, and to love his neighbor as himself, is more important than all whole burnt offerings and sacrifices.*

Cross References

Psalm 50:23

Whoever offers the sacrifice of thanksgiving glorifies me, and prepares his way so that I will show God's salvation to him.*

Proverbs 21:3

To do righteousness and justice is more acceptable to the LORD than sacrifice.

Hosea 6:6

For I desire mercy, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings.

Matthew 12:7

But if you had known what this means, 'I desire mercy, and not sacrifice,' you would not have condemned the guiltless.

Matthew 9:13

But you go and learn what this means: 'I desire mercy, and not sacrifice,' for I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.*

Deuteronomy 6:5

and you shall love the LORD your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your might.

Hebrews 10:8

Previously saying, *Sacrifices and offerings and whole burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin you didn't desire, neither had pleasure in them* (those which are offered according to the Torah),

1 Samuel 15:22

Shemu'el 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 listen than the fat of rams.