Hosea 6:6 - Hebrew Names version (HNV)

⁶ For I desire mercy, 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

You, Shlomo my son, know the God of your father, and serve him with a perfect heart and with a willing mind; for the LORD searches all hearts, and understands all the imaginations of the thoughts: if you seek him, he will be found of you; but if you forsake him, he will cast you off forever.

Psalm 50:8

I don't rebuke you for your sacrifices. Your burnt offerings are continually before me.

Proverbs 21:3

To do righteousness and justice is more acceptable to the LORD than sacrifice.

Ecclesiastes 5:1

Guard your steps when you go to God's house; for to draw near to listen is better than to give the sacrifice of fools, for they don't know that they do evil.

Isaiah 1:11

*What are the multitude of your sacrifices to me?,* says the LORD. *I have had enough of the burnt offerings of rams, and the fat of fed animals. I don't delight in the blood of bulls, or of lambs, or of male goats.

Isaiah 58:6

Isn't 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 you break every yoke?

Jeremiah 22:16

He judged the cause of the poor and needy; then it was well. Wasn't this to know me? says the LORD.

Jeremiah 7:22

For I didn't speak to your fathers, nor command them in the day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt, concerning burnt offerings or sacrifices:

Daniel 4:27

Therefore, O king, let my counsel be acceptable to you, and break off your sins by righteousness, and your iniquities by showing mercy to the poor; if there may be a lengthening of your tranquillity.

Hosea 14:2

Take words with you, and return to the LORD. Tell him, *Forgive all our sins, and accept that which is good: so we offer our lips like bulls.

Hosea 2:20

I will even betroth you to me in faithfulness; and you shall know the LORD.

Hosea 4:1

Hear the word of the LORD, you children of Yisra'el; for the LORD has a charge against the inhabitants of the land: *Indeed there is no truth, nor goodness, nor knowledge of God in the land.

Hosea 8:13

As for the sacrifices of my offerings, they sacrifice flesh and eat it; But the LORD doesn't accept them. Now he will remember their iniquity, and punish their sins. They will return to Egypt.

Amos 5:21

I hate, I despise your feasts, and I can't stand your solemn assemblies.

Micah 6:6

How shall I come before the LORD, and bow myself before the exalted God? Shall I come before him with burnt offerings, with calves a year old?

Micah 6:8

He has shown you, O man, what is good. What does the LORD require of you, but to act justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God?

Matthew 12:7

But if you had known what this means, 'I desire mercy, and not sacrifice,' you would not have condemned the guiltless.

Matthew 5:7

Blessed are the merciful, for they shall obtain mercy.

Matthew 9:13

But you go and learn what this means: 'I desire mercy, and not sacrifice,' for I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.*

Mark 12:33

and to love him with all the heart, and with all the understanding, with all the soul, and with all the strength, and to love his neighbor as himself, is more important than all whole burnt offerings and sacrifices.*

Joshua 5:5

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

1 John 2:3

This is how we know that we know him: if we keep his mitzvot.

1 John 3:6

Whoever remains in him doesn't sin. Whoever sins hasn't seen him, neither knows him.

1 Samuel 15:22

Shemu'el said, Has the LORD as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices, as in obeying the voice of the LORD? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to listen than the fat of rams.