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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Samuel said, "Has 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 listen than the fat of rams.

I do not rebuke you for your sacrifices. Your burnt offerings are continually before me.

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

Guard your step when you go to the house of God. To draw near to listen is better than to give the sacrifice of fools, for they do not know that they do evil.

"What are the multitude of your sacrifices to me?," says the LORD. "I have had enough of the burnt offerings of rams, and the fat of fed animals. I do not delight in the blood of bulls, or of lambs, or of male goats.

"Isn't this the fast that I have chosen: to release the bonds of wickedness, to undo the bands of the yoke, and to let the oppressed 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 counsel be acceptable to you, and break off your sins by righteousness, and your iniquities by showing mercy to the poor; if there may be a lengthening of your prosperity."

I hate, I despise your feasts, and I can't stand your solemn assemblies.

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

Blessed are the merciful, for they shall obtain mercy.

But you go and learn what this means: 'I desire mercy, and not sacrifice,' for I came not to call the righteous, but sinners."

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

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Hear the word of the LORD, you children of Israel; for the LORD has a charge against the inhabitants of the land: "Indeed there is no truth, nor goodness, nor knowledge of God in the land.

You, Solomon my son, know the God of your father, and serve him with a perfect heart and with a willing mind; for the LORD 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. Wasn't this to know me?' says the LORD.

This is how we know that we know him: if we keep his commandments.

Whoever remains in him does not sin. Whoever sins hasn't seen him, neither knows him.

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"'On the second day you shall offer twelve young bulls, two rams, fourteen male lambs a year old without blemish;

But if her father disallow her in the day that he hears, none of her vows, or of her bonds with which she has bound her soul, shall stand: and the LORD will forgive her, because her father disallowed her.

I do not rebuke you for your sacrifices. Your burnt offerings are continually before me.

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