Matthew 12:7

Tree of Life Version

If you had known what this means, ‘I desire mercy, not sacrifice,’ you wouldn’t have condemned the innocent.

Cross References

Job 32:3

He was also angry with his three friends because they had not found an answer, and yet had condemned Job.

Psalm 109:31

For He stands at the right hand of the needy, to save him from those who condemn his soul.

Psalm 94:21

They band together against the life of the righteous, and condemn innocent blood.

Proverbs 17:15

Acquitting the wicked and condemning the righteous: both are an abomination to Adonai.

Hosea 6:6

For I delight in loyalty and not sacrifice, knowledge of God more than burnt offerings.

Matthew 22:29

But answering, Yeshua said to them, “You’ve gone astray, because you don’t understand the Scriptures or the power of God.

Matthew 9:13

Now go and learn what this means: ‘Mercy I desire, and not sacrifice.’ For I didn’t come to call the righteous, but the sinful.”

Mark 12:33

And ‘to love Him with all the heart, with all the understanding, and with all the strength,’ and ‘to love the neighbor as oneself,’ is much more than all burnt offerings and sacrifices.”

Acts 13:27

For those who live in Jerusalem and their rulers—not recognizing Him or the sayings of the Prophets that are read every Shabbat—fulfilled these words by condemning Him.

James 5:6

You have condemned, you have murdered the righteous person—he does not resist you.

Joshua 5:5

Though all the people that came out were circumcised, none of the people who were born in the wilderness along the way as they came out of Egypt had been circumcised.

1 Samuel 15:22

Samuel said: “Does Adonai delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices as in obeying the voice of Adonai? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, to pay heed than the fat of rams.