1 Samuel 15:22

King James 3 - The Literal Traslation

And Samuel said, Does Jehovah delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices as in obeying the voice of Jehovah? Behold! Obeying is better than sacrifice; to give attention is better than the fat of rams.

Cross References

Genesis 4:4

And Abel brought, he also, from the firstlings of his flocks, even from their fat. And Jehovah looked to Abel and to his offering.

Exodus 19:5

And now if listening you will listen to My voice, and will keep My covenant, you shall become a special possession to Me above all the nations, for all the earth is Mine.

Proverbs 21:3

For Jehovah, to do righteousness and justice is to be chosen more than sacrifice.

Ecclesiastes 5:1

Guard your feet when you go to the house of God, and draw near to hear, more than to give a sacrifice, as do the fools. For they do not know that they are doing an evil thing.

Jeremiah 11:4

which I commanded your fathers in the day I brought them out of the land of Egypt, from the iron furnace, saying, Hear My voice and do them according to all that I command you, so that you shall be for a people to Me, and I will be to you for God;

Jeremiah 11:7

For admonishing I admonished your fathers in the day I brought them up out of the land of Egypt, to this day rising early and admonishing, saying, Hear My voice.

Jeremiah 26:13

And now make good your ways and your doings, and obey the voice of Jehovah your God, and Jehovah will repent toward the evil that He has spoken against you.

Hosea 6:6

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

Hosea 8:13

And for the sacrifices of My offerings, they sacrifice flesh, and they eat. Jehovah did not accept them. Now He will remember their iniquity and call their sins to account. They shall turn back to Egypt.

Matthew 12:7

But if you had known what this is, “I desire mercy and not sacrifice,” you would not have condemned the guiltless. Hos. 6:6

Matthew 23:23

Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you pay tithes of mint and dill and cummin, and you have left aside the weightier matters of the Law: judgment, and mercy, and faith. It was right to do these, and not to have left those aside.

Matthew 5:24

leave your gift there before the altar, and go. First, be reconciled to your brother, and then, coming, offer your gift.

Matthew 9:13

But going, learn what this is, “I desire mercy and not sacrifice.” For I did not come to call righteous ones, but sinners to repentance. Hos. 6:6

Mark 12:33

“and to love Him from all the heart,” and from all the understanding, “and from all the soul, and from all the strength;” and “to love one’s neighbor as oneself” is more than all the burnt offerings and the sacrifices. Lev. 19:18; Deut. 6:4, 5

1 Samuel 13:12

and I said, Now the Philistines will come down to me to Gilgal, and I have not sweetened the face of Jehovah; and I forced myself, and offered a burnt offering.

1 Samuel 13:13

And Samuel said to Saul, You have acted foolishly that you have not kept the command of Jehovah your God which He commanded you. For now Jehovah would have established your kingdom over Israel forever.