Proverbs 21:3 - Tree of Life Version

³ To do righteousness and justice is more acceptable to Adonai than sacrifice.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

³ To do justice and judgment Is more acceptable to the LORD than sacrifice.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

³ To do righteousness and justice is more acceptable to the Lord than sacrifice. [I Sam. 15:22; Prov. 15:8; Isa. 1:11; Hos. 6:6; Mic. 6:7, 8.]

American Standard Version (1901)

³ To do righteousness and justice Is more acceptable to Jehovah than sacrifice.

Common English Bible

³ Acting with righteousness and justice is more valued by the LORD than sacrifice.

Catholic Public Domain Version

³ To do mercy and judgment is more pleasing to the Lord than sacrifices.

Proverbs 21:3 Tagairtí Cros

Psalm 40:7

Sacrifice and offering You did not desire —my ears You have opened— burnt offering and sin offering You did not require.

Psalm 50:8

I do not rebuke you for your sacrifices, for your burnt offerings are continually before Me.

Proverbs 15:8

The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination to Adonai, but the prayer of the upright pleases him.

Hosea 6:6

For I delight in loyalty and not sacrifice, knowledge of God more than burnt offerings.

Zechariah 7:9

“Thus says Adonai-Tzva’ot: ‘Administer true judgment and practice mercy and compassion each to his brother.

Mark 12:33

And ‘to love Him with all the heart, with all the understanding, and with all the strength,’ and ‘to love the neighbor as oneself,’ is much more than all burnt offerings and sacrifices.”

1 Samuel 15:22

Samuel said: “Does Adonai delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices as in obeying the voice of Adonai? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, to pay heed than the fat of rams.