Mark 12:33

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Mark 12:33

And to love Him with all your heart, with all your understanding, and with all your strength, and to love your neighbor as yourself, is far more important than all the burnt offerings and sacrifices.”

1 Samuel 15:22

Then Samuel said:

Does the Lord take pleasure in burnt offerings and sacrifices
as much as in obeying the Lord?

Look: to obey is better than sacrifice,
to pay attention is better than the fat of rams.

Hosea 6:6

For I desire loyalty and not sacrifice,
the knowledge of God rather than burnt offerings.

Micah 6:6-8

What should I bring before the Lord
when I come to bow before God on high?
Should I come before Him with burnt offerings,
with year-old calves?

Matthew 9:13

Go and learn what this means: I desire mercy and not sacrifice. For I didn’t come to call the righteous, but sinners.”

Matthew 12:7

If you had known what this means: I desire mercy and not sacrifice, you would not have condemned the innocent.

Hebrews 10:8

After He says above, You did not want or delight in sacrifices and offerings, whole burnt offerings and sin offerings (which are offered according to the law),

Psalm 50:8-15

I do not rebuke you for your sacrifices
or for your burnt offerings,
which are continually before Me.

Psalm 50:23

Whoever sacrifices a thank offering honors Me,
and whoever orders his conduct,
I will show him the salvation of God.”

Proverbs 21:3

Doing what is righteous and just
is more acceptable to the Lord than sacrifice.

Isaiah 1:11-17

“What are all your sacrifices to Me?”
asks the Lord.
“I have had enough of burnt offerings and rams
and the fat of well-fed cattle;
I have no desire for the blood of bulls,
lambs, or male goats.

Isaiah 58:5-7

Will the fast I choose be like this:
A day for a person to deny himself,
to bow his head like a reed,
and to spread out sackcloth and ashes?
Will you call this a fast
and a day acceptable to the Lord?

Jeremiah 7:21-23

This is what the Lord of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: “Add your burnt offerings to your other sacrifices, and eat the meat yourselves,

Amos 5:21-24

I hate, I despise your feasts!
I can’t stand the stench
of your solemn assemblies.

1 Corinthians 13:1-3

If I speak human or angelic languages
but do not have love,
I am a sounding gong or a clanging cymbal.

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Summary

Mark 12:33

And to love him with all the heart, and with all the understanding, and with all the soul, and with all the strength, and to love his neighbour as himself, is more than all whole burnt offerings and sacrifices.

Is more

General references

Proverbs 21:3

Matthew 22:36

1 John 4:21

Bible References

Is more

Then Samuel said:

Does the Lord

take pleasure in burnt offerings and sacrifices

as much as in obeying the Lord?

Look: to obey is better than sacrifice,
to pay attention is better than the fat of rams.

I do not rebuke you for your sacrifices
or for your burnt offerings,
which are continually before Me.

Doing what is righteous and just
is more acceptable to the Lord than sacrifice.

This is what the Lord of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: “Add your burnt offerings to your other sacrifices, and eat the meat yourselves,

For I desire loyalty and not sacrifice,
the knowledge of God rather than burnt offerings.

I hate, I despise your feasts!
I can’t stand the stench
of your solemn assemblies.

What should I bring before the Lord

when I come to bow before God on high?
Should I come before Him with burnt offerings,
with year-old calves?

Go and learn what this means: I desire mercy and not sacrifice.

For I didn’t come to call the righteous, but sinners.”

If you had known what this means: I desire mercy and not sacrifice,

you would not have condemned the innocent.

If I speak human or angelic languages
but do not have love,
I am a sounding gong or a clanging cymbal.

General references

Doing what is righteous and just
is more acceptable to the Lord than sacrifice.

“Teacher, which command in the law is the greatest?”

And we have this command from Him: The one who loves God must also love his brother.