Psalm 51:16

New International Version

You do not delight in sacrifice, or I would bring it; you do not take pleasure in burnt offerings.

Cross References

Psalm 40:6

Sacrifice and offering you did not desire— but my ears you have opened— burnt offerings and sin offerings you did not require.

Hosea 6:6

For I desire mercy, not sacrifice, and acknowledgment of God rather than burnt offerings.

1 Samuel 15:22

But Samuel replied: “Does the Lord delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices as much as in obeying the Lord? To obey is better than sacrifice, and to heed is better than the fat of rams.

Psalm 51:6

Yet you desired faithfulness even in the womb; you taught me wisdom in that secret place.

Proverbs 21:27

The sacrifice of the wicked is detestable— how much more so when brought with evil intent!

Proverbs 15:8

The Lord detests the sacrifice of the wicked, but the prayer of the upright pleases him.

Psalm 50:8

I bring no charges against you concerning your sacrifices or concerning your burnt offerings, which are ever before me.

Jeremiah 7:27

“When you tell them all this, they will not listen to you; when you call to them, they will not answer.

Deuteronomy 22:22

If a man is found sleeping with another man’s wife, both the man who slept with her and the woman must die. You must purge the evil from Israel.

Numbers 15:27

“ ‘But if just one person sins unintentionally, that person must bring a year-old female goat for a sin offering.

Exodus 21:14

But if anyone schemes and kills someone deliberately, that person is to be taken from my altar and put to death.

Numbers 35:31

“ ‘Do not accept a ransom for the life of a murderer, who deserves to die. They are to be put to death.

2 Samuel 12:9

Why did you despise the word of the Lord by doing what is evil in his eyes? You struck down Uriah the Hittite with the sword and took his wife to be your own. You killed him with the sword of the Ammonites.

Psalm 71:15

My mouth will tell of your righteous deeds, of your saving acts all day long— though I know not how to relate them all.