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 you for your sacrifices or your burnt offerings, to have been continually before me.

For you desire not sacrifice; else would I give it: you delight not in burnt offering.

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

To what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices unto me? says the LORD: I am full of the burnt offerings of rams, and the fat of fed beasts; and I delight not in the blood of bullocks, or of lambs, or of male goats.

For I spoke not unto 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 desired mercy, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings.

I hate, I despise your feast days, and I will not take delight in your solemn assemblies.

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

But go and learn what that means, I will have mercy, and not sacrifice: for I am not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.

But if you had known what this means, I will have mercy, and not sacrifice, you would not have condemned the guiltless.

Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for you pay tithe of mint and anise and cummin, and have omitted the weightier matters of the law, justice, mercy, and faith: these ought you to have done, and not to leave the other undone.

For it is not possible that the blood of bulls and of goats should take away sins.

Obey

Now therefore, if you will obey my voice indeed, and keep my covenant, then you shall be a special treasure unto me above all people: for all the earth is mine:

Guard your steps when you go to the house of God, and be more ready to hear, than to give the sacrifice of fools: for they consider not that they do evil.

But this thing commanded I them, saying, Obey my voice, and I will be your God, and you shall be my people: and walk you in all the ways that I have commanded you, that it may be well unto you.

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

Therefore now amend your ways and your doings, and obey the voice of the LORD your God; and the LORD will relent concerning the evil that he has pronounced against you.

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

Leave there your gift before the altar, and go your way; first be reconciled to your brother, and then come and offer your gift.

And to love him with all the heart, and with all the understanding, and with all the soul, and with all the 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 you gave to be with me, she gave me of the tree, and I did eat.

And the children of Israel did according to all that the LORD commanded Moses, so did they.

Then said he unto him, Because you have not obeyed the voice of the LORD, behold, as soon as you are departed from me, a lion shall slay you. And as soon as he was departed from him, a lion found him, and slew him.

To execute vengeance upon the nations, and punishments upon the people;

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

I gave you a king in my anger, and took him away in my wrath.