Hosea 6:6

Wycliffe's Bible with Modern Spelling

For I would or desire mercy, and not sacrifice, and I would the knowing of God, more than burnt sacrifices.

Cross References

1 Chronicles 28:9

But thou, Solomon, my son, know [thou] the God of thy father, and serve thou him with perfect heart, and with a willful soul, or mind; for the Lord searcheth all hearts, and he understand-eth all the thoughts of souls; if thou seekest him, thou shalt find him; forsooth if thou forsakest him, he shall cast thee away without end.

Psalm 50:8

I shall not reprove thee in thy sacrifices; and thy burnt sacrifices be ever[more] before me.

Proverbs 21:3

To do mercy and doom, pleaseth more the Lord, than sacrifices.

Ecclesiastes 5:1

Thou that enterest into the house of God, keep thy foot, and nigh thou for to hear; for why much better is obedience, than the sacrifice of fools, that know not what evil they do.

Isaiah 1:11

Whereto offer ye to me [or What to me] the multitude of your sacrifices? saith the Lord. I am full; I would not the burnt sacrifices of wethers, and the inner fatness of fat beasts, and the blood of calves, and of lambs, and of bucks of goats.

Isaiah 58:6

Whether not this is more the fasting, which I choose? Unbind thou the bindings together of unpity, either of cruelty, release thou [the] burdens pressing down; deliver thou them free, that be broken, and break thou each burden.

Jeremiah 22:16

He deemed the cause of a poor man, and needy, into his good; whether not therefore for he knew me? saith the Lord.

Jeremiah 7:22

For I spake not with your fathers, and I commanded not to them of the word of burnt sacrifices, and of slain sacrifices, in the day in which I led them out of the land of Egypt.

Daniel 4:27

Wherefore, king, my counsel please thee, and again-buy thy sins with alms-deeds, and again-buy thy wickednesses with mercies of poor men; in hap God shall forgive thy trespasses.

Hosea 14:2

Take ye words with you, and be ye turned again to the Lord; and say ye to him, Do thou away all wicked-ness, and take thou good; and we shall yield the calves of our lips.

Hosea 2:20

And I shall spouse thee to me in faith; and thou shalt know that I am the Lord.

Hosea 4:1

Sons of Israel, hear ye the word of the Lord, for why doom is to the Lord with the dwellers of earth; for why truth is not, and mercy is not, and knowing of the Lord is not in earth.

Hosea 8:13

They shall bring sacrifices, they shall offer, and eat fleshes; and the Lord shall not receive those [or them]. Now he shall have mind on the wickednesses of them, and he shall visit the sins of them; they shall turn into Egypt.

Amos 5:21

I hated and casted away your feast days, and I shall not take the odour of your companies.

Micah 6:6

What worthy thing shall I offer to the Lord? shall I bow the knee to the high God? Whether shall I offer to him brunt sacrifices, and calves of one year?

Micah 6:8

I shall show to thee, thou man, what is good, and what the Lord asketh of thee; forsooth for to do doom, and for to love mercy, and be busy for to walk with thy God.

Matthew 12:7

And if ye knew, what it is, I will mercy, and not sacrifice, ye should never have condemned innocents.

Matthew 5:7

Blessed be merciful men [+or Blessed be the merciful], for they shall get mercy.

Matthew 9:13

But go ye, and learn what it is, I will mercy, and not sacrifice; for I came, not to call rightful [or rightwise] men, but sinful men to penance.

Mark 12:33

[and] that he be loved of all the heart, and of all the mind, and of all the understanding, and of all the soul, and of all the strength, and to love the neighbour as himself, is greater [or is more], than all burnt offerings and sacrifices.

Joshua 5:5

the which all were circumcised. But the other people that was born in desert by forty years, in the way of the full broad wilderness, was un-circumcised,

1 John 2:3

And in this thing we know, that we know him, if we keep his commandments.

1 John 3:6

Each man that dwelleth in him, sinneth not; and each that sinneth, seeth not him, neither knew him.

1 Samuel 15:22

And Samuel said, Whether the Lord will or desireth burnt sacrifices, either slain sacrifices, and not more, rather, that men obey to the voice of the Lord? Forsooth obedience to him is better than sacrifices, and to take heed to his word is more than to offer the inner fatness of rams;