1 Samuel 15:22

Samuel said: What is more pleasing to Jehovah, burnt offerings and sacrifices or your obedience to his voice? Obeying is better than sacrifice. To pay attention is better than the fat of rams.

Hosea 6:6

I desire loving-kindness (mercy), not sacrifice, and knowledge of God rather than burnt offerings.

Mark 12:33

To love him with all the heart, and with all understanding, and with total strength, and to love his neighbor as himself, is much more than all the whole burnt offerings and sacrifices.

Jeremiah 7:22-23

For I did not speak to your fathers, or command them in the day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt, concerning burnt offerings and sacrifices.

Micah 6:6-8

With what shall I come before Jehovah? Shall I bow down before the high God? Shall I come before him with burnt offerings, with year old calves?

Matthew 12:7

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

Psalm 40:6-8

You have not desired sacrifice and meal offering. You have opened my ears. Burnt offering and sin offering you have not required.

Psalm 50:8-9

I do not reprove you for your sacrifices or burnt offerings, which are constantly (always) in front of me.

Psalm 51:16-17

You do not desire sacrifice. Otherwise, I would offer one to you. You are not pleased with burnt offerings.

Proverbs 21:3

To practice righteousness and justice is more acceptable to Jehovah than sacrifice.

Ecclesiastes 5:1

Guard your step when you go to the house of God. It is better to go there and listen than to bring the sacrifices fools bring. Fools are not aware that they do evil.

Matthew 9:13

You should learn what this means: 'I desire mercy, and not sacrifice'; for I came, not to call the righteous, but sinners.

Isaiah 1:11-17

Jehovah says: What do your many animal sacrifices mean to me? I have had enough of your burnt offerings of rams and enough fat from your fattened calves. I am not pleased with the blood of bulls, lambs, or male goats.

Jeremiah 11:7

I solemnly warned your fathers in the day that I brought them up from the land of Egypt. Even to this day I persistently warned them, saying: 'Listen to my voice.'

Jeremiah 26:13

You must change the way you are living and the things you are doing. You must obey Jehovah your God. If you do, he will change his mind about the destruction that he said he would bring on you.

Amos 5:21-24

I hate, I despise (reject) your feasts, and I will take no delight in your solemn assemblies.

Matthew 23:23

Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! You tithe mint and dill and cumin, and have left undone the weightier matters of the law: justice, mercy and faith. You should do both and leave nothing undone.

Hebrews 10:4-10

It is not possible for the blood of bulls and of goats to take away sins.

Exodus 19:5

If you will obey me and are faithful to the terms of my covenant, then out of all the nations you will be my own special possession, for all the earth is mine.

Jeremiah 11:4

It is the covenant I made with their ancestors when I brought them out of Egypt. Egypt was like an iron smelter (furnace) to them. I told them to obey me and to do everything that I commanded. I told them that if they obeyed, they would be my people and I would be their God.

Matthew 5:24

leave your gift at the altar and go make peace with your brother. Then return and make your offering.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

And Samuel said, Hath 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 hearken than the fat of rams.

Bible References

Hath the lord

Psalm 50:8
I do not reprove you for your sacrifices or burnt offerings, which are constantly (always) in front of me.
Psalm 51:16
You do not desire sacrifice. Otherwise, I would offer one to you. You are not pleased with burnt offerings.
Proverbs 21:3
To practice righteousness and justice is more acceptable to Jehovah than sacrifice.
Isaiah 1:11
Jehovah says: What do your many animal sacrifices mean to me? I have had enough of your burnt offerings of rams and enough fat from your fattened calves. I am not pleased with the blood of bulls, lambs, or male goats.
Jeremiah 7:22
For I did not speak to your fathers, or command them in the day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt, concerning burnt offerings and sacrifices.
Hosea 6:6
I desire loving-kindness (mercy), not sacrifice, and knowledge of God rather than burnt offerings.
Amos 5:21
I hate, I despise (reject) your feasts, and I will take no delight in your solemn assemblies.
Micah 6:6
With what shall I come before Jehovah? Shall I bow down before the high God? Shall I come before him with burnt offerings, with year old calves?
Matthew 9:13
You should learn what this means: 'I desire mercy, and not sacrifice'; for I came, not to call the righteous, but sinners.
Matthew 12:7
If you had known what this means, 'I desire mercy and not sacrifice,' you would not have condemned the guiltless.
Matthew 23:23
Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! You tithe mint and dill and cumin, and have left undone the weightier matters of the law: justice, mercy and faith. You should do both and leave nothing undone.
Hebrews 10:4
It is not possible for the blood of bulls and of goats to take away sins.

Obey

Exodus 19:5
If you will obey me and are faithful to the terms of my covenant, then out of all the nations you will be my own special possession, for all the earth is mine.
Ecclesiastes 5:1
Guard your step when you go to the house of God. It is better to go there and listen than to bring the sacrifices fools bring. Fools are not aware that they do evil.
Jeremiah 7:23
I gave them this command: 'Obey my voice, and I will be your God, and you will be my people. You will walk in all the way that I command you that it may be well with you.'
Jeremiah 11:4
It is the covenant I made with their ancestors when I brought them out of Egypt. Egypt was like an iron smelter (furnace) to them. I told them to obey me and to do everything that I commanded. I told them that if they obeyed, they would be my people and I would be their God.
Jeremiah 26:13
You must change the way you are living and the things you are doing. You must obey Jehovah your God. If you do, he will change his mind about the destruction that he said he would bring on you.
Hosea 6:6
I desire loving-kindness (mercy), not sacrifice, and knowledge of God rather than burnt offerings.
Matthew 5:24
leave your gift at the altar and go make peace with your brother. Then return and make your offering.
Mark 12:33
To love him with all the heart, and with all understanding, and with total strength, and to love his neighbor as himself, is much more than all the whole burnt offerings and sacrifices.

General references

Genesis 3:12
Adam said: The woman you put here with me gave me some fruit from the tree, and I ate it.
Numbers 1:54
The Israelites did everything as Jehovah commanded Moses.
1 Kings 20:36
Then he said: Because you have not listened to the voice of Jehovah, immediately after you leave me a lion will kill you. When he went away a lion came rushing at him and killed him.
Psalm 149:7
to take vengeance on the nations, to punish the people of the world,
Proverbs 21:3
To practice righteousness and justice is more acceptable to Jehovah than sacrifice.
Hosea 13:11
I gave you a king when I was angry, and I took him away when I was furious.