Hosea 6:6 - American Standard Version 2015

⁶ For I desire goodness, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more than burnt-offerings.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁶ For I desired mercy, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁶ For I desire and delight in dutiful steadfast love and goodness, not sacrifice, and the knowledge of and acquaintance with God more than burnt offerings. [Matt. 9:13; 12:7.]

American Standard Version (1901)

⁶ For I desire goodness, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more than burnt-offerings.

Common English Bible

⁶ I desire faithful love and not sacrifice, the knowledge of God instead of entirely burned offerings.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁶ For I desired mercy and not sacrifice, and knowledge of God more than holocausts.

Hosea 6:6 Tagairtí Cros

1 Chronicles 28:9

And thou, Solomon my son, know thou the God of thy father, and serve him with a perfect heart and with a willing mind; for Jehovah searcheth all hearts, and understandeth all the imaginations of the thoughts: If thou seek him, he will be found of thee; but if thou forsake him, he will cast thee off for ever.

Psalm 50:8

I will not reprove thee for thy sacrifices;\par\tab And thy burnt-offerings are continually before me.

Proverbs 21:3

To do righteousness and justice\par\tab Is more acceptable to Jehovah than sacrifice.

Ecclesiastes 5:1

Keep thy foot when thou goest to the house of God; for to draw nigh to hear is better than to give the sacrifice of fools: for they know not that they do evil.

Isaiah 1:11

What unto me is the multitude of your sacrifices? saith Jehovah: I have had enough of the burnt-offerings of rams, and the fat of fed beasts; and I delight not in the blood of bullocks, or of lambs, or of he-goats.

Isaiah 58:6

Is not this the fast that I have chosen: to loose the bonds of wickedness, to undo the bands of the yoke, and to let the oppressed go free, and that ye break every yoke?

Jeremiah 22:16

He judged the cause of the poor and needy; then it was well. Was not this to know me? saith Jehovah.

Jeremiah 7:22

For I spake not unto your fathers, nor commanded them in the day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt, concerning burnt-offerings or sacrifices:

Daniel 4:27

Wherefore, O king, let my counsel be acceptable unto thee, and break off thy sins by righteousness, and thine iniquities by showing mercy to the poor; if there may be a lengthening of thy tranquillity.\par

Hosea 14:2

Take with you words, and return unto Jehovah: say unto him, Take away all iniquity, and accept that which is good: so will we render {\i as} bullocks {\i the offering of} our lips.

Hosea 2:20

I will even betroth thee unto me in faithfulness; and thou shalt know Jehovah.\par

Hosea 4:1

Hear the word of Jehovah, ye children of Israel; for Jehovah hath a controversy with the inhabitants of the land, because there is no truth, nor goodness, nor knowledge of God in the land.

Hosea 8:13

As for the sacrifices of mine offerings, they sacrifice flesh and eat it; but Jehovah accepteth them not: now will he remember their iniquity, and visit their sins; they shall return to Egypt.

Amos 5:21

I hate, I despise your feasts, and I will take no delight in your solemn assemblies.

Micah 6:6

Wherewith shall I come before Jehovah, and bow myself before the high God? shall I come before him with burnt-offerings, with calves a year old?

Micah 6:8

He hath showed thee, O man, what is good; and what doth Jehovah require of thee, but to do justly, and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with thy God?\par

Matthew 12:7

But if ye had known what this meaneth, {\b I desire mercy, and not sacrifice,} ye would not have condemned the guiltless.

Matthew 5:7

Blessed are the merciful: for they shall obtain mercy.

Matthew 9:13

But go ye and learn what {\i this} meaneth, {\b I desire mercy, and not sacrifice}: for I came not to call the righteous, but sinners.}\par

Mark 12:33

{\b and to love him with all the heart, and with all the understanding, and with all the strength, and to love his neighbor as himself,} is much more than all whole burnt-offerings and sacrifices.

Joshua 5:5

For all the people that came out were circumcised; but all the people that were born in the wilderness by the way as they came forth out of Egypt, they had not circumcised.

1 John 2:3

And hereby we know that we know him, if we keep his commandments.

1 John 3:6

Whosoever abideth in him sinneth not: whosoever sinneth hath not seen him, neither knoweth him.

1 Samuel 15:22

And Samuel said, Hath Jehovah as great delight in burnt-offerings and sacrifices, as in obeying the voice of Jehovah? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to hearken than the fat of rams.