Jeremiah 7:22

Consider this: When I spoke to your ancestors after I brought them out of Egypt, I did not merely give them commands about burnt offerings and sacrifices.

Hosea 6:6

For I delight in faithfulness, not simply in sacrifice; I delight in acknowledging God, not simply in whole burnt offerings.

Then Samuel said, "Does the Lord take pleasure in burnt offerings and sacrifices as much as he does in obedience? Certainly, obedience is better than sacrifice; paying attention is better than the fat of rams.

Psalm 40:6

Receiving sacrifices and offerings are not your primary concern. You make that quite clear to me! You do not ask for burnt sacrifices and sin offerings.

Psalm 50:8-17

I am not condemning you because of your sacrifices, or because of your burnt sacrifices that you continually offer me.

Psalm 51:16-17

Certainly you do not want a sacrifice, or else I would offer it; you do not desire a burnt sacrifice.

Matthew 9:13

Go and learn what this saying means: 'I want mercy and not sacrifice.' For I did not come to call the righteous, but sinners."

Mark 12:33

And to love him with all your heart, with all your mind, and with all your strength and to love your neighbor as yourself is more important than all burnt offerings and sacrifices."

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Jeremiah 7:22

For I spake 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:

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Mark 12:33

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Receiving sacrifices and offerings are not your primary concern. You make that quite clear to me! You do not ask for burnt sacrifices and sin offerings.

I am not condemning you because of your sacrifices, or because of your burnt sacrifices that you continually offer me.

Certainly you do not want a sacrifice, or else I would offer it; you do not desire a burnt sacrifice.

For I delight in faithfulness, not simply in sacrifice; I delight in acknowledging God, not simply in whole burnt offerings.

Go and learn what this saying means: 'I want mercy and not sacrifice.' For I did not come to call the righteous, but sinners."

And to love him with all your heart, with all your mind, and with all your strength and to love your neighbor as yourself is more important than all burnt offerings and sacrifices."

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one young bull, one ram, and one male lamb in its first year, for a burnt offering;

"'On the second day you must offer twelve young bulls, two rams, fourteen lambs one year old, all without blemish,

I am not condemning you because of your sacrifices, or because of your burnt sacrifices that you continually offer me.

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