Hosea 6:6

Modern King James Version

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

Cross References

1 Chronicles 28:9

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

Psalm 50:8

I will not reprove you for your sacrifices; yea, your burnt offerings are continually before Me.

Proverbs 21:3

To do justice and judgment is more pleasing to Jehovah than sacrifice.

Ecclesiastes 5:1

Guard your steps when you go to the house of God, and be more ready to hear than to give the sacrifice of fools. For they do not know that they are doing evil.

Isaiah 1:11

To what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices to Me? says Jehovah; I am full of the burnt offerings of rams, and the fat of fed beasts; and I do not delight in the blood of bulls, or of lambs, or of he-goats.

Isaiah 58:6

Is not this the fast that I have chosen? To loose the bands of wickedness, to undo the heavy burdens, and to let the oppressed ones go free, and that you break every yoke?

Jeremiah 22:16

He judged the cause of the poor and needy; then it was well with him. Was this not to know Me? says Jehovah.

Jeremiah 7:22

For I did not speak to your fathers, nor command them in the day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt, concerning burnt offerings or sacrifices.

Daniel 4:27

Therefore, O king, let my advice be pleasing to you, and break off your sins by righteousness, and your iniquities by showing mercy to the poor, whether there will be duration to your prosperity.

Hosea 14:2

Take with you words, and turn to Jehovah. Say to Him, Take away all iniquity, and receive us graciously, that we may 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

Hear the Word of Jehovah, sons of Israel. For Jehovah has a quarrel with the people of the land, because there is no truth, nor mercy, nor knowledge of God in the land.

Hosea 8:13

They sacrifice flesh for the sacrifices of My offerings, and eat it; but Jehovah does not receive them. Now He will remember their iniquity and punish their sins. They shall return to Egypt.

Amos 5:21

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

Micah 6:6

With what shall I come before Jehovah, to bow myself before God the Most High? Shall I come before Him with burnt offerings, with calves of a year old?

Micah 6:8

He has shown you, O man, what is good. And what does Jehovah require of you but to do justice and to love mercy and to walk humbly 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 those who are not guilty.

Matthew 5:7

Blessed are the merciful! For they shall obtain mercy.

Matthew 9:13

But go and learn what this is, I will have mercy and not sacrifice. For I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.

Mark 12:33

And to love Him with all the heart, and with all the understanding, and with all the soul, and with all the strength, and to love the neighbor as himself, is more than all the burnt offerings and sacrifices.

Joshua 5:5

For all the people who came out were circumcised. But all the people born in the wilderness by the wayside, as they came forth out of Egypt, had not been circumcised.

1 John 2:3

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

1 John 3:6

Everyone who abides in Him does not sin. Everyone who sins 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, to obey is better than sacrifice! To listen is better than the fat of rams!