Psalm 51:16

New King James Version

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

Cross References

2 Samuel 12:9

Why have you despised the commandment of the Lord, to do evil in His sight? You have killed Uriah the Hittite with the sword; you have taken his wife to be your wife, and have killed him with the sword of the people of Ammon.

Psalm 40:6

Sacrifice and offering You did not desire; My ears You have opened. Burnt offering and sin offering You did not require.

Psalm 50:8

I will not rebuke you for your sacrifices Or your burnt offerings, Which are continually before Me.

Psalm 51:6

Behold, You desire truth in the inward parts, And in the hidden part You will make me to know wisdom.

Psalm 71:15

My mouth shall tell of Your righteousness And Your salvation all the day, For I do not know their limits.

Exodus 21:14

“But if a man acts with premeditation against his neighbor, to kill him by treachery, you shall 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 wicked intent!

Jeremiah 7:27

“Therefore you shall speak all these words to them, but they will not obey you. You shall also call to them, but they will not answer you.

Hosea 6:6

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

Numbers 15:27

‘And if a person sins unintentionally, then he shall bring a female goat in its first year as a sin offering.

Numbers 35:31

Moreover you shall take no ransom for the life of a murderer who is guilty of death, but he shall surely be put to death.

Deuteronomy 22:22

“If a man is found lying with a woman married to a husband, then both of them shall die—the man that lay with the woman, and the woman; so you shall put away the evil from Israel.

1 Samuel 15:22

So Samuel said: “Has the Lord as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices, As in obeying the voice of the Lord? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, And to heed than the fat of rams.