Hosea 6:6

A Call To Yahweh

⁵ Therefore have I hewn them by the prophets; I have slain them by the words of my mouth: and your judgments are as the light that goes forth. ⁶  For I desired mercy, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings. ⁷ But they like men have transgressed the covenant: there have they dealt treacherously against me.

Be Merciful

Burnt Offering

Burnt Offerings

Burnt Sacrifice

In Me

Knowledge of God

Mercy and Not Sacrifice

With God

Desire Steadfast Love And Not Sacrifice

Steadfast Love

Steadfast Love And Not Sacrifice

Matthew 9:13

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.

Matthew 12:7

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

Isaiah 1:11

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.

1 Samuel 15:22

And 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 hearken than the fat of rams.

Amos 5:21

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

1 Chronicles 28:9

And you, Solomon my son, know you 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 of you; but if you forsake him, he will cast you off forever.

Psalm 50:8

I will not reprove you for your sacrifices or your burnt offerings, to have been continually before me.

Proverbs 21:3

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

Ecclesiastes 5:1

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.

Isaiah 58:6

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

Jeremiah 7:22

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:

Jeremiah 22:16

He judged the cause of the poor and needy; then it was well with him: was not this to know me? says the LORD.

Daniel 4:27

Therefore, O king, let my counsel be acceptable unto you, and break off your sins by practicing righteousness, and your iniquities by showing mercy to the poor; if it may be a lengthening of your tranquility.

Hosea 2:20

I will even betroth you unto me in faithfulness: and you shall know the LORD.

Hosea 4:1

Hear the word of the LORD, you children of Israel: for the LORD has a controversy with the inhabitants of the land: Because there is no truth, nor mercy, nor knowledge of God in the land.

Micah 6:6

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?

Matthew 5:7

Blessed are the merciful: for they shall obtain mercy.

1 John 2:3

And by this we know that we know him, if we keep his commandments.

1 John 3:6

Whosoever abides in him sins not: whosoever sins has not seen him, neither known him.