Hosea 6:6

New American Bible - revised edition

For it is loyalty that I desire, not sacrifice, and knowledge of God rather than burnt offerings.

Cross References

1 Chronicles 28:9

“As for you, Solomon, my son, know the God of your father and serve him with a whole heart and a willing soul, for the Lord searches all hearts and understands all the mind’s thoughts. If you search for him, he will be found; but if you abandon him, he will cast you off forever.

Psalm 50:8

Not for your sacrifices do I rebuke you, your burnt offerings are always before me.

Proverbs 21:3

To do what is right and just is more acceptable to the Lord than sacrifice.

Ecclesiastes 5:1

Be not hasty in your utterance and let not your heart be quick to utter a promise in God’s presence. God is in heaven and you are on earth; therefore let your words be few.

Isaiah 1:11

What do I care for the multitude of your sacrifices? says the Lord. I have had enough of whole-burnt rams and fat of fatlings; In the blood of calves, lambs, and goats I find no pleasure.

Isaiah 58:6

Is this not, rather, the fast that I choose: releasing those bound unjustly, untying the thongs of the yoke; Setting free the oppressed, breaking off every yoke?

Jeremiah 22:16

Because he dispensed justice to the weak and the poor, he prospered. Is this not to know me?— oracle of the Lord.

Jeremiah 7:22

In speaking to your ancestors on the day I brought them out of the land of Egypt, I gave them no command concerning burnt offering or sacrifice.

Daniel 4:27

the king said, “Babylon the great! Was it not I, with my great strength, who built it as a royal residence for my splendor and majesty?”

Hosea 14:2

Return, Israel, to the Lord, your God; you have stumbled because of your iniquity.

Hosea 2:20

I will make a covenant for them on that day, with the wild animals, With the birds of the air, and with the things that crawl on the ground. Bow and sword and warfare I will destroy from the land, and I will give them rest in safety.

Hosea 4:1

Hear the word of the Lord, Israelites, for the Lord has a dispute with the inhabitants of the land: There is no fidelity, no loyalty, no knowledge of God in the land.

Hosea 8:13

They love sacrifice, they sacrifice meat and eat it, but the Lord is not pleased with them. Now he will remember their guilt and punish their sins; they shall return to Egypt.

Amos 5:21

I hate, I despise your feasts, I take no pleasure in your solemnities.

Micah 6:6

With what shall I come before the Lord, and bow before God most high? Shall I come before him with burnt offerings, with calves a year old?

Micah 6:8

You have been told, O mortal, what is good, and what the Lord requires of you: Only to do justice and to love goodness, and to walk humbly with your God.

Matthew 12:7

If you knew what this meant, ‘I desire mercy, not sacrifice,’ you would not have condemned these innocent men.

Matthew 5:7

Blessed are the merciful, for they will be shown mercy.

Matthew 9:13

Go and learn the meaning of the words, ‘I desire mercy, not sacrifice.’ I did not come to call the righteous but sinners.” The Question About Fasting.

Mark 12:33

And ‘to love him with all your heart, with all your understanding, with all your strength, and to love your neighbor as yourself’ is worth more than all burnt offerings and sacrifices.”

Joshua 5:5

Though all the men who came out were circumcised, none of those born in the wilderness during the journey after the departure from Egypt were circumcised.

1 John 2:3

The way we may be sure that we know him is to keep his commandments.

1 John 3:6

No one who remains in him sins; no one who sins has seen him or known him.

1 Samuel 15:22

But Samuel said: “Does the Lord delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices as much as in obedience to the Lord’s command? Obedience is better than sacrifice, to listen, better than the fat of rams.