Hosea 6:6

King James 3 - The Literal Traslation

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

Cross References

1 Chronicles 28:9

And you, my son Solomon, know the God of your father, and serve Him with a perfect heart, and with a willing mind. For Jehovah searches out all hearts, and He understands every imagination of thoughts. If you shall seek Him, He shall be found by you. But if you forsake Him, He will reject you forever.

Psalm 50:8

Not for your sacrifices do I reprove you; yea, your burnt offerings are continually before Me;

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.

Isaiah 1:11

What good to Me are your many sacrifices, says Jehovah? I am sated with burnt offerings of rams, and the fat of fattened cattle, and the blood of bulls; nor do I delight in the blood of lambs and he goats.

Isaiah 58:6

this is not the fast I have chosen: to open bands of wickedness, to undo thongs of the yoke, and to send out free the ones being oppressed, and that you pull off every yoke?

Jeremiah 22:16

He judged the cause of the poor and needy one, then it was well. Was this not to know Me, a statement of Jehovah?

Jeremiah 7:22

For I did not speak to your fathers, and not command them in the day that I brought them out from the land of Egypt, concerning matters of burnt offerings and sacrifices.

Daniel 4:27

So, O king, let my counsel be pleasing to you: Even break off your sins by righteousness, and your iniquities by pitying the humble one, whether there will be duration to your prosperity.

Hosea 14:2

Take words with you and return to Jehovah. Say to Him, Lift up all iniquity and take us for good, and we will repay with the calves of our lips.

Hosea 2:20

I will even betroth you to Me in faithfulness, and you shall know Jehovah.

Hosea 4:1

Sons of Israel, hear the Word of Jehovah, for Jehovah has a quarrel with those living in the land; for there is no truth, and no mercy, and no knowledge of God in the land.

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.

Amos 5:21

I hate, I reject your feast days; and I will not delight in your solemn assemblies.

Micah 6:6

With what shall I come before Jehovah, to bow down before the loftiness of God? Shall I come before Him with burnt offerings, with calves, sons of a year?

Micah 6:8

O man, He has declared to you what is good. And what does Jehovah require of you, but to do justice, and to love mercy, and to be humble to walk with your God?

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 5:7

Blessed are the merciful! For they shall obtain mercy.

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

Joshua 5:5

For all the people who had come out were circumcised. And all the people who were born in the wilderness, in the way, as they came out from Egypt, had not been circumcised.

1 John 2:3

And by this we know that we have known Him, if we keep His commands.

1 John 3:6

Everyone remaining in Him does not sin. Everyone sinning has not seen Him, nor known Him.

1 Samuel 15:22

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.