1 Samuel 15:22
Then Samuel said, "Is there [as much] delight for Yahweh in burnt offerings and sacrifices as [there is] in {obeying} Yahweh? Look! {To obey} [is] better than sacrifice; to give heed than the fat of rams.
Hosea 6:6
Because I desire steadfast love and not sacrifice, and knowledge of God rather than burnt offerings.
Mark 12:33
And to love him from your whole heart and from your whole understanding and from your whole strength, and to love your neighbor as yourself, is much more than all whole burnt offerings and sacrifices."
Jeremiah 7:22-23
For I did not speak with your ancestors, nor did I command them in the day of bringing them out from the land of Egypt, concerning the matter of burnt offering and sacrifice.
Micah 6:6-8
With what shall I approach Yahweh, and bow down to God on high? Shall I approach him with burnt offerings, with bull calves a year old?
Matthew 12:7
And if you had known what {it means}, 'I want mercy and not sacrifice,' you would not have condemned the guiltless.
Psalm 40:6-8
A sacrifice and offering you do not desire. {My ears you have opened}. Burnt offering and sin offering you have not demanded.
Psalm 50:8-9
It is not concerning [a lack of] your sacrifices [that] I rebuke you, and your burnt offerings [are] before me continually.
Psalm 51:16-17
For you do not delight [in] sacrifice or I would give [it]. [With] a burnt offering you are not pleased.
Proverbs 21:3
Doing righteousness and justice is [more] acceptable to Yahweh than sacrifice.
Ecclesiastes 5:1
Guard your steps when you go to the house of God; draw near to listen [rather] than to offer a sacrifice of fools, for they do not know that they are doing evil.
Matthew 9:13
But go [and] learn what it means, "I want mercy and not sacrifice." For I did not come to call the righteous, but sinners."
Isaiah 1:11-17
What [is the] abundance of your sacrifices to me? says Yahweh. I have had enough [of] burnt offerings of rams and [the] fat [of] fattened animals and I do not delight in [the] blood of bulls and ram-lambs and goats.
Jeremiah 11:7
for I solemnly admonished your ancestors in the day of my leading them out from the land of Egypt and up to this day, {admonishing persistently}, {saying}, "Obey my voice."
Jeremiah 26:13
Now {therefore} amend your ways and your deeds, and obey the voice of Yahweh your God, and Yahweh will relent of the disaster that he has spoken over you.
Amos 5:21-24
"I hate, I despise your festivals, and I take no delight in your assemblies.
Matthew 23:23
"Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees--hypocrites!--because you pay a tenth of mint and dill and cumin, and neglect the more important [matters] of the law--justice and mercy and faithfulness! It was necessary to do these [things] {while not neglecting those}.
Hebrews 10:4-10
For [it is] impossible [for] the blood of bulls and goats to take away sins.
Exodus 19:5
And now if you will carefully listen to my voice and keep my covenant, you will be a treasured possession for me out of all the peoples, {for all the earth is mine},
Jeremiah 11:4
which I commanded your ancestors in the day of my bringing them from the land of Egypt, from the furnace of iron, {saying}, 'Listen to my voice and do according to all that I command you, {so will you be my people, and I will be your God}.'
Matthew 5:24
leave your gift there before the altar and first go be reconciled to your brother, and then come [and] present your gift.