Psalm 51:16

New English Translation

Certainly you do not want a sacrifice, or else I would offer it; you do not desire a burnt sacrifice.

Cross References

2 Samuel 12:9

Why have you shown contempt for the word of the Lord by doing evil in my sight? You have struck down Uriah the Hittite with the sword and you have taken his wife as your own! You have killed him with the sword of the Ammonites.

Psalm 40:6

Receiving sacrifices and offerings are not your primary concern. You make that quite clear to me! You do not ask for burnt sacrifices and sin offerings.

Psalm 50:8

I am not condemning you because of your sacrifices, or because of your burnt sacrifices that you continually offer me.

Psalm 51:6

Look, you desire integrity in the inner man; you want me to possess wisdom.

Psalm 71:15

I will tell about your justice, and all day long proclaim your salvation, though I cannot fathom its full extent.

Exodus 21:14

But if a man willfully attacks his neighbor to kill him cunningly, you will take him even from my altar that he may die.

Proverbs 15:8

The Lord abhors the sacrifices of the wicked, but the prayer of the upright pleases him.

Proverbs 21:27

The wicked person’s sacrifice is an abomination; how much more when he brings it with evil intent!

Jeremiah 7:27

Then the Lord said to me, “When you tell them all this, they will not listen to you. When you call out to them, they will not respond to you.

Hosea 6:6

For I delight in faithfulness, not simply in sacrifice; I delight in acknowledging God, not simply in whole burnt offerings.

Numbers 15:27

“‘If any person sins unintentionally, then he must bring a yearling female goat for a purification offering.

Numbers 35:31

Moreover, you must not accept a ransom for the life of a murderer who is guilty of death; he must surely be put to death.

Deuteronomy 22:22

If a man is caught having sexual relations with a married woman both the man who had relations with the woman and the woman herself must die; in this way you will purge evil from Israel.

1 Samuel 15:22

Then Samuel said, “Does the Lord take pleasure in burnt offerings and sacrifices as much as he does in obedience? Certainly, obedience is better than sacrifice; paying attention is better than the fat of rams.