Hosea 6:6

Young's Literal Translation 1898

For kindness I desired, and not sacrifice, And a knowledge of God above burntofferings.

Cross References

1 Chronicles 28:9

‘And thou, Solomon, my son, know the God of thy father, and serve Him with a perfect heart, and with a willing mind, for all hearts is Jehovah seeking, and every imagination of the thoughts He is understanding; if thou dost seek Him, He is found of thee, and if thou dost forsake Him, He casteth thee off for ever.

Psalm 50:8

Not for thy sacrifices do I reprove thee, Yea, thy burnt-offerings [Are] before Me continually.

Proverbs 21:3

To do righteousness and judgment, Is chosen of Jehovah rather than sacrifice.

Ecclesiastes 5:1

Keep thy feet when thou goest unto a house of God, and draw near to hear rather than to give of fools the sacrifice, for they do not know they do evil.

Isaiah 1:11

‘Why to Me the abundance of your sacrifices? saith Jehovah, I have been satiated [with] burnt-offerings of rams, And fat of fatlings; And blood of bullocks, and lambs, And he-goats I have not desired.

Isaiah 58:6

Is not this the fast that I chose — To loose the bands of wickedness, To shake off the burdens of the yoke, And to send out the oppressed free, And every yoke ye draw off?

Jeremiah 22:16

He decided the cause of the poor and needy, Then [it is] well — is it not to know Me? An affirmation of Jehovah.

Jeremiah 7:22

For I did not speak with your fathers, Nor did I command them in the day of My bringing them out of the land of Egypt, Concerning the matters of burnt-offering and sacrifice,

Daniel 4:27

‘Therefore, O king, let my counsel be acceptable unto thee, and thy sins by righteousness break off, and thy perversity by pitying the poor, lo, it is a lengthening of thine ease.

Hosea 14:2

Take with you words, and turn to Jehovah, Say ye unto Him: ‘Take away all iniquity, and give good, And we do render the fruit of our lips.

Hosea 2:20

And betrothed thee to Me in faithfulness, And thou hast known Jehovah.

Hosea 4:1

‘Hear a word of Jehovah, sons of Israel, For a strife [is] to Jehovah with inhabitants of the land, For there is no truth, nor kindness, Nor knowledge of God, in the land,

Hosea 8:13

The sacrifices of Mine offerings! They sacrifice flesh, and they eat, Jehovah hath not accepted them, Now doth He remember their iniquity, And inspect their sin, They — [to] Egypt they turn back.

Amos 5:21

I have hated — I have loathed your festivals, And I am not refreshed by your restraints.

Micah 6:6

With what do I come before Jehovah? Do I bow to God Most High? Do I come before Him with burnt-offerings? With calves — sons of a year?

Micah 6:8

He hath declared to thee, O man, what [is] good; Yea, what is Jehovah requiring of thee, Except — to do judgment, and love kindness, And lowly to walk with thy God?

Matthew 12:7

and if ye had known what is: Kindness I will, and not sacrifice — ye had not condemned the blameless,

Matthew 5:7

‘Happy the kind — because they shall find kindness.

Matthew 9:13

but having gone, learn ye what is, Kindness I will, and not sacrifice, for I did not come to call righteous men, but sinners, to reformation.’

Mark 12:33

and to love Him out of all the heart, and out of all the understanding, and out of all the soul, and out of all the strength, and to love one's neighbour as one's self, is more than all the whole burnt-offerings and the sacrifices.’

Joshua 5:5

for all the people who are coming out were circumcised, and all the people who [are] born in the wilderness, in the way, in their coming out from Egypt, they have not circumcised;

1 John 2:3

and in this we know that we have known him, if his commands we may keep;

1 John 3:6

every one who is remaining in him doth not sin; every one who is sinning, hath not seen him, nor known him.

1 Samuel 15:22

And Samuel saith, ‘Hath Jehovah had delight in burnt-offerings and sacrifices as [in] hearkening to the voice of Jehovah? lo, hearkening than sacrifice is better; to give attention than fat of rams;