Psalm 51:16

Modern English Version

For You do not delight in sacrifice, or I would give it; You do not delight in burnt offering.

Cross References

2 Samuel 12:9

Why have you despised the word of the Lord by doing evil in His sight? You struck down Uriah the Hittite with the sword, and you took his wife as a wife for yourself. You killed him with the sword of the Ammonites.

Psalm 40:6

Sacrifice and offering You did not desire; my ears You have opened. Burnt offering and sin offering You have not required.

Psalm 50:8

Not for your sacrifices will I rebuke you; your burnt offerings are continually before Me.

Psalm 51:6

Behold, You desire truth in the inward being, and in my secret heart You will teach me wisdom.

Psalm 71:15

My mouth will tell of Your righteousness and of Your salvation all the day, for I do not know their extent.

Exodus 21:14

But if a man willfully comes upon his neighbor in order to kill him cunningly, then you must take him from My altar, that he may die.

Proverbs 15:8

The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination to the Lord, but the prayer of the upright is His delight.

Proverbs 21:27

The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination; how much more when he brings it with evil intent!

Jeremiah 7:27

Therefore you will speak all these words to them. But they will not listen to you. You will also call to them, but they will not answer you.

Hosea 6:6

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

Numbers 15:27

If a person sins unintentionally, then he will bring a year-old female goat as a sin offering.

Numbers 35:31

And you will not take a ransom for the life of a murderer who is guilty of death, but he will surely be put to death.

Deuteronomy 22:22

If a man is discovered lying with a married woman, then both of them must die, both the man who lay with the woman, and the woman. In this way you may purge the evil from Israel.

1 Samuel 15:22

Samuel said, “Does the Lord delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices as much as in obeying the voice of the Lord? Behold, obedience is better than sacrifice, a listening ear than the fat of rams.