Matthew 23:23

Lighthouse Bible 2006

Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you pay tithe of mint and anise and cumin, and have omitted the weightier matters of the law, judgment, mercy, and faith: these ought you to have done, and not to leave the other undone.

Cross References

Proverbs 21:3

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

Isaiah 28:25

When he has leveled the face thereof, does he not toss out the dill, and scatter the cummin, and drop in the choice wheat and the select barley and the rye in their place?

Jeremiah 22:3

Thus says the LORD; Execute justice and righteousness, and deliver him who is plundered out of the hand of the oppressor: and do no wrong, do no violence to the stranger, the fatherless, nor the widow, neither shed innocent blood in this place.

Hosea 6:6

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

Leviticus 27:30

And all the tithe of the land, whether of the seed of the land, or of the fruit of the tree, is the LORD’S: it is holy unto the LORD.

Micah 6:8

He has shown you, O man, what is good; and what does the LORD require of you, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God?

Matthew 12:7

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

Matthew 23:13

But woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you shut up the kingdom of heaven against men: for you neither go in yourselves, nor permit those who are entering to go in.

Matthew 9:13

But go ye and learn what that means, I desire mercy, and not sacrifice: for I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.

Luke 11:42

But woe to you, Pharisees! For you tithe mint and rue and all kinds of herbs, and pass over judgment and the love of God: these ought you to have done, and not to leave the other undone.

Luke 18:12

I fast twice in the week, I give tithes of all that I possess.

1 Samuel 15:22

And Samuel 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 hearken than the fat of rams.