Hosea 6:6

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Hosea 6:6

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

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1 John 3:6

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And Samuel said, Does Jehovah delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices as in obeying the voice of Jehovah? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice! To listen is better than the fat of rams!

I will not reprove you for your sacrifices; yea, your burnt offerings are continually before Me.

To do justice and judgment is more pleasing to Jehovah than sacrifice.

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 do not know that they are doing evil.

To what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices to Me? says Jehovah; I am full of the burnt offerings of rams, and the fat of fed beasts; and I do not delight in the blood of bulls, or of lambs, or of he-goats.

Is not this the fast that I have chosen? To loose the bands of wickedness, to undo the heavy burdens, and to let the oppressed ones go free, and that you break every yoke?

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

Therefore, O king, let my advice be pleasing to you, and break off your sins by righteousness, and your iniquities by showing mercy to the poor, whether there will be duration to your prosperity.

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

With what shall I come before Jehovah, to bow myself before God the Most High? Shall I come before Him with burnt offerings, with calves of a year old?

Blessed are the merciful! For they shall obtain mercy.

But go and learn what this is, I will have mercy and not sacrifice. For I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.

But if you had known what this is, "I desire mercy and not sacrifice," you would not have condemned those who are not guilty.

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Hear the Word of Jehovah, sons of Israel. For Jehovah has a quarrel with the people of the land, because there is no truth, nor mercy, nor knowledge of God in the land.

And you, Solomon my son, know the God of your father and serve Him with a perfect heart and with a willing mind. For Jehovah searches all hearts and understands all the imaginations of the thoughts. If you seek Him, He will be found by you. But if you forsake Him, He will cast you off forever.

He judged the cause of the poor and needy; then it was well with him. Was this not to know Me? says Jehovah.

And by this we know that we have known Him, if we keep His commandments.

Everyone who abides in Him does not sin. Everyone who sins has not seen Him nor known Him.

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And on the second day you shall offer twelve young bulls, two rams, fourteen lambs of the first year without spot;

But if her father does not allow her in the day that he hears, not any of her vows or of her bonds with which she has bound her soul shall stand. And Jehovah shall forgive her because her father did not allow her.

I will not reprove you for your sacrifices; yea, your burnt offerings are continually before Me.

To do justice and judgment is more pleasing to Jehovah than sacrifice.