1 Samuel 15:22

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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.

Hath the lord

Obey

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Bible References

Hath the lord

I will not reprove thee for thy sacrifices, and thy burnt-offerings [being] continually before me.

For thou delight not in sacrifice, else I would give it. Thou have no pleasure in burnt-offering.

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

What to me is the multitude of your sacrifices? says LORD. I have had enough of the burnt-offerings of rams, and the fat of fed beasts. And I do not delight in the blood of bullocks or of lambs or of he-goats.

For I spoke not to your fathers, nor commanded them in the day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt, concerning burnt-offerings or sacrifices.

For I desire mercy, and not sacrifice, and the knowledge of God more than burnt-offerings.

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

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

But after going, learn what this means, I desire mercy, and not sacrifice, for I came not to call the righteous, but sinners for repentance.

But if ye had known what this means, I desire mercy and not sacrifice, ye would not have condemned the innocent.

Woe to you, scholars and Pharisees, hypocrites! Because ye tithe the mint and the anise and the cummin, and have omitted the weightier matters of the law--justice and mercy and faith. These things must be done, and not neglecting t

For it is impossible for the blood of bulls and goats to take away sins.

Obey

Now therefore, if ye will obey my voice indeed, and keep my covenant, then ye shall be my own possession from among all peoples, for all the earth is mine,

Keep thy foot when thou go to the house of God, for to draw near to hear is better than to give the sacrifice of fools. For they know not that they do evil.

But this thing I commanded them, saying, Hearken to my voice, and I will be your God, and ye shall be my people. And walk ye in all the way that I command you, that it may be well with you.

which I commanded your fathers in the day that I brought them forth out of the land of Egypt, out of the iron furnace, saying, Obey my voice, and do them, according to all which I command you, so ye shall be my people, and I will b

Now therefore amend your ways and your doings, and obey the voice of LORD your God, and LORD will relent of the evil that he has pronounced against you.

For I desire mercy, and not sacrifice, and the knowledge of God more than burnt-offerings.

leave there thy gift before the altar, and go. First be reconciled to thy brother, and then, after coming, bring thy gift.

And to love him from the whole heart, and from the whole understanding, and from the whole soul, and from the whole strength, and to love his neighbor as himself, is more than all whole burnt-offerings and sacrifices.

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And the man said, The woman whom thou gave to be with me, she gave me of the tree, and I ate.

Thus did the sons of Israel. According to all that LORD commanded Moses, so they did.

Then said he to him, Because thou have not obeyed the voice of LORD, behold, as soon as thou are departed from me, a lion shall kill thee. And as soon as he was departed from him, a lion found him, and killed him.

to execute vengeance upon the nations, and punishments upon the peoples,

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

I have given thee a king in my anger, and have taken him away in my wrath.