Hosea 6:6

A Call To Yahweh

⁵ Therefore I have cut them to pieces with the prophets; I killed them with the words of my mouth. Your judgments are like a flash of lightning. ⁶ For I desire mercy, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings. ⁷ But they, like Adam, have broken the covenant. They were unfaithful to me, there.

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

Matthew 12:7

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

Isaiah 1:11

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

1 Samuel 15:22

Samuel said, "Has Yahweh as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices, as in obeying the voice of Yahweh? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to listen than the fat of rams.

Amos 5:21

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

1 Chronicles 28:9

You, Solomon my son, know the God of your father, and serve him with a perfect heart and with a willing mind; for Yahweh 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.

Psalm 50:8

I don't rebuke you for your sacrifices. Your burnt offerings are continually before me.

Proverbs 21:3

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

Ecclesiastes 5:1

Guard your steps when you go to God's house; for to draw near to listen is better than to give the sacrifice of fools, for they don't know that they do evil.

Isaiah 58:6

"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?

Jeremiah 7:22

For I didn't 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:

Jeremiah 22:16

He judged the cause of the poor and needy; then it was well. Wasn't this to know me? says Yahweh.

Daniel 4:27

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 tranquility.

Hosea 2:20

I will even betroth you to me in faithfulness; and you shall know Yahweh.

Hosea 4:1

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

Micah 6:6

How shall I come before Yahweh, and bow myself before the exalted 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

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

1 John 3:6

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