Hosea 6:6
For I desired mercy, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings.
Matthew 9:13
Therefore go ye and learn what this is, I will have mercy and not sacrifice, for I am not come to call the righteous but sinners to repentance.
Matthew 12:7
But if ye knew what this means, I will have mercy and not sacrifice, ye would not condemn the innocent.
Isaiah 1:11
To what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices unto me? shall the LORD say. I am full 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.
1 Samuel 15:22
And Samuel said, Does the LORD have as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices as in hearing the voice of the LORD? Behold, to hear is better than sacrifice and to hearken than the fat of rams.
Amos 5:21
I hate, I despise your solemnities, and I will not savour your assemblies.
1 Chronicles 28:9
And thou, Solomon, my son, know thou the God of thy father and serve him with a perfect heart and with a willing soul, for the LORD searches all hearts and understands all the imaginations of the thoughts. If thou seek him, he will be found of thee; but if thou forsake him, he will cast thee off for ever.
Psalm 50:8
I will not reprove thee regarding thy sacrifices; thy burnt offerings are continually before me.
Proverbs 21:3
To do righteousness and judgment is more acceptable to the LORD than sacrifice.
Ecclesiastes 5:1
Watch thy feet when thou goest to the house of God and draw near with more willingness to hear than to give the sacrifice of fools, for they do not know how to do what God wants.
Isaiah 58:6
Is not rather the fast that I have chosen, to loose the bands of wickedness, to undo the ties of oppression, to release into freedom those who are broken, and that ye break every yoke?
Jeremiah 7:22
For I did not speak unto your fathers, nor command them in the day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt concerning burnt offerings or sacrifices:
Jeremiah 22:16
He judged the cause of the poor and needy; then it was well with him. Is this not to know me? said the LORD.
Daniel 4:27
Therefore, O king, approve my counsel and redeem thy sins with righteousness and thine iniquities with mercies unto the poor: behold the medicine for thy sin.
Hosea 2:20
I will even betroth thee unto me in faith: and thou shalt know the LORD.
Hosea 4:1
Hear the word of the LORD, ye sons of Israel; for the LORD contends with the inhabitants of the land because there is no truth, nor mercy, nor knowledge of God in the earth.
Micah 6:6
With what shall I present myself before the LORD, and how shall I worship the high God? shall I come before him with burnt offerings, with calves of a year old?
Matthew 5:7
Blessed are the merciful, for they shall obtain mercy.
1 John 2:3
And in this we do know that we have known him if we keep his commandments.
1 John 3:6
Whosoever abides in him does not sin: whosoever sins has not seen him or known him.