To do righteousness and justice is more acceptable to the Lord than sacrifice.
Amos 5:24 - Revised Standard Version But let justice roll down like waters, and righteousness like an everflowing stream. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 But let judgment run down as waters, and righteousness as a mighty stream. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition But let justice run down like waters and righteousness as a mighty and ever-flowing stream. American Standard Version (1901) But let justice roll down as waters, and righteousness as a mighty stream. Common English Bible But let justice roll down like waters, and righteousness like an ever-flowing stream. Catholic Public Domain Version And judgment will be revealed like water, and justice like a mighty torrent. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version But judgment shall be revealed as water, and justice as a mighty torrent. |
To do righteousness and justice is more acceptable to the Lord than sacrifice.
O that you had hearkened to my commandments! Then your peace would have been like a river, and your righteousness like the waves of the sea;
Thus says the Lord: Do justice and righteousness, and deliver from the hand of the oppressor him who has been robbed. And do no wrong or violence to the alien, the fatherless, and the widow, nor shed innocent blood in this place.
“Thus says the Lord God: Enough, O princes of Israel! Put away violence and oppression, and execute justice and righteousness; cease your evictions of my people, says the Lord God.
For I desire steadfast love and not sacrifice, the knowledge of God, rather than burnt offerings.
Take away from me the noise of your songs; to the melody of your harps I will not listen.
O you who turn justice to wormwood, and cast down righteousness to the earth!
He has showed you, O man, what is good; and what does the Lord require of you but to do justice, and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your God?