Matthew 12:7 - Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁷ And if you knew what this meaneth: I will have mercy, and not sacrifice: you would never have condemned the innocent.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁷ But if ye had known what this meaneth, I will have mercy, and not sacrifice, ye would not have condemned the guiltless.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁷ And if you had only known what this saying means, I desire mercy [readiness to help, to spare, to forgive] rather than sacrifice and sacrificial victims, you would not have condemned the guiltless. [Hos. 6:6; Matt. 9:13.]

American Standard Version (1901)

⁷ But if ye had known what this meaneth, I desire mercy, and not sacrifice, ye would not have condemned the guiltless.

Common English Bible

⁷ If you had known what this means, I want mercy and not sacrifice, you wouldn’t have condemned the innocent.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁷ And if you knew what this means, 'I desire mercy, and not sacrifice,' you would never have condemned the innocent.

English Standard Version 2016

⁷ And if you had known what this means, ‘I desire mercy, and not sacrifice,’ you would not have condemned the guiltless.

Matthew 12:7 Tagairtí Cros

Job 32:3

And he was angry with his friends, because they had not found a reasonable answer. But only had condemned Job.

Proverbs 17:15

He that justifieth the wicked, and he that condemneth the just, both are abominable before God.

Hosea 6:6

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

Matthew 22:29

And Jesus answering, said to them: You err, not knowing the Scriptures, nor the power of God.

Matthew 9:13

Go then and learn what this meaneth, I will have mercy and not sacrifice. For I am not come to call the just, but sinners.

Mark 12:33

And that he should be loved with the whole heart, and with the whole understanding, and with the whole soul, and with the whole strength; and to love one's neighbour as one's self, is a greater thing than all holocausts and sacrifices.

Acts 13:27

For they that inhabited Jerusalem, and the rulers thereof, not knowing him, nor the voices of the prophets, which are read every sabbath, judging him have fulfilled them.

James 5:6

You have condemned and put to death the Just One, and he resisted you not.

Joshua 5:5

Now these were all circumcised. But the people that were born in the desert,

1 Samuel 15:22

And Samuel said: Doth the Lord desire holocausts and victims, and not rather that the voice of the Lord should be obeyed? For obedience is better than sacrifices; and to hearken rather than to offer the fat of rams.