Psalm 51:16 - New Revised Standard Version

¹⁶ For you have no delight in sacrifice; if I were to give a burnt offering, you would not be pleased.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁶ For thou desirest not sacrifice; else would I give it: Thou delightest not in burnt offering.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁶ For You delight not in sacrifice, or else would I give it; You find no pleasure in burnt offering. [I Sam. 15:22.]

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁶ For thou delightest not in sacrifice; else would I give it: Thou hast no pleasure in burnt-offering.

Common English Bible

¹⁶ You don’t want sacrifices. If I gave an entirely burned offering, you wouldn’t be pleased.

Psalm 51:16 Tagairtí Cros

2 Samuel 12:9

Why have you despised the word of the Lord, to do what is evil in his sight? You have struck down Uriah the Hittite with the sword, and have taken his wife to be your wife, and have killed him with the sword of the Ammonites.

Psalm 40:6

Sacrifice and offering you do not desire, but you have given me an open ear. Burnt offering and sin offering you have not required.

Psalm 50:8

Not for your sacrifices do I rebuke you; your burnt offerings are continually before me.

Psalm 51:6

You desire truth in the inward being; therefore teach me wisdom in my secret heart.

Psalm 71:15

My mouth will tell of your righteous acts, of your deeds of salvation all day long, though their number is past my knowledge.

Exodus 21:14

But if someone willfully attacks and kills another by treachery, you shall take the killer from my altar for execution.

Proverbs 15:8

The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination to the Lord, but the prayer of the upright is his delight.

Proverbs 21:27

The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination; how much more when brought with evil intent.

Jeremiah 7:27

So you shall speak all these words to them, but they will not listen to you. You shall call to them, but they will not answer you.

Hosea 6:6

For I desire steadfast love and not sacrifice, the knowledge of God rather than burnt offerings.

Numbers 15:27

An individual who sins unintentionally shall present a female goat a year old for a sin offering.

Numbers 35:31

Moreover you shall accept no ransom for the life of a murderer who is subject to the death penalty; a murderer must be put to death.

Deuteronomy 22:22

If a man is caught lying with the wife of another man, both of them shall die, the man who lay with the woman as well as the woman. So you shall purge the evil from Israel.

1 Samuel 15:22

And Samuel said, “Has the Lord as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices, as in obeying the voice of the Lord? Surely, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to heed than the fat of rams.