Hosea 6:6

The Scriptures 1998

“For I delight in kindness and not slaughtering, and in the knowledge of Elohim more than burnt offerings.

Cross References

Matthew 9:13

“But go and learn what this means, ‘I desire compassion and not offering.’ For I did not come to call the righteous to repentance, but sinners.”

Matthew 12:7

“And if you had known what this means, ‘I desire compassion and not offering,’ you would not have condemned the blameless.

Proverbs 21:3

To do righteousness and right-ruling Is more acceptable to יהוה  than a slaughtering.

1 Samuel 15:22

Then Shemu’ĕ

Amos 5:21

“I have hated, I have despised your festivals, and I am not pleased with your assemblies.

Isaiah 1:11

“Of what use to Me are your many slaughterings?” declares יהוה. “I have had enough of burnt offerings of rams and the fat of fed beasts. I do not delight in the blood of bulls, or of lambs or goats.

Ecclesiastes 5:1

Guard your steps when you go to the House of Elohim. And draw near to listen rather than to give the slaughtering of fools, for they do not know that they do evil.

Jeremiah 22:16

“He defended the cause of the poor and needy – then it was well. Was this not to know Me?” declares יהוה.

Matthew 5:7

“Blessed are the compassionate, because they shall obtain compassion.

Daniel 4:27

“Therefore, O sovereign, let my counsel be acceptable to you, and break off your sins by righteousness, and your crookednesses by showing favour to the poor – your prosperity might be extended.”

1 Chronicles 28:9

“As for you, my son Shelomoh, know the Elohim of your father, and serve Him with a perfect heart and with a pleasing life, for יהוה  searches all hearts and understands all the intent of the thoughts. If you do seek Him, He is found by you; but if you forsake Him, He rejects you forever.

Jeremiah 7:22

“For I did not speak to your fathers, or command them in the day that I brought them out of the land of Mitsrayim, about matters of burnt offerings or slaughterings.

1 John 3:6

Everyone staying in Him does not sin. Everyone sinning has neither seen Him nor known Him.

1 John 2:3

And by this we know that we know Him, if we guard His commands.

Micah 6:6

With what shall I come before יהוה, bow myself before the high Elohim? Shall I come before Him with burnt offerings, with calves a year old?

Hosea 4:1

Hear the word of יהוה, you children of Yisra’ĕ

Isaiah 58:6

“Is this not the fast that I have chosen: to loosen the tight cords of wrongness, to undo the bands of the yoke, to exempt the oppressed, and to break off every yoke?

Hosea 2:20

“And I shall take you as a bride unto Me in trustworthiness, and you shall know יהוה.

Psalm 50:8

“I do not reprove you for your slaughterings, And your burnt offerings are continually before Me.

Mark 12:33

“And to love Him with all the heart, and with all the understanding, and with all the being, and with all the strength, and to love one’s neighbour as oneself, is more than all the burnt offerings and offerings.”

Hosea 14:2

Take words with you, and return to יהוה. Say to Him, “Take away all crookedness, and accept what is good, and we render the bulls of our lips.

Micah 6:8

He has declared to you, O man, what is good. And what does יהוה  require of you but to do right, and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your Elohim?

Joshua 5:5

For all the people who came out had been circumcised, but all the people who were born in the wilderness on the way as they came out of Mitsrayim had not been circumcised.

Hosea 8:13

“As for My offerings: they slaughter flesh and they eat. יהוה  shall not accept them. Now does He remember their crookedness and punish their sins. Let them return to Mitsrayim!