Mark 12:33
To love him with all your heart, with all your understanding, and with all your strength, and to love your neighbor as yourself is more important than all the burnt offerings and sacrifices."
1 Samuel 15:22
Samuel said, "Does the LORD delight as much in burnt offerings and sacrifices as in obeying the LORD? Surely, to obey is better than sacrifice, to pay attention is better than the fat of rams.
Hosea 6:6
For it is love that I seek, and not sacrifice; knowledge of God more than burnt offerings.
Micah 6:6-8
How am I to present myself in the LORD's presence and bow in the presence of the High God? Should I present myself with burnt offerings, with year-old calves?
Matthew 9:13
Go and learn what this means: "I want mercy and not sacrifice,' because I did not come to call righteous people, but sinners."
Matthew 12:7
If you had known what "I want mercy and not sacrifice' means, you would not have condemned the innocent,
Hebrews 10:8
In this passage he says, "You never wanted or took delight in sacrifices, offerings, burnt offerings, and sin offerings," which are offered according to the Law.
Psalm 50:8-15
I do not rebuke you because of your sacrifices; indeed, your burnt offerings are continuously before me.
Psalm 50:23
Whoever offers a sacrifice of thanksgiving glorifies me, and I will reveal the salvation of God to whomever continues in my way." To the Director: A Davidic Psalm. When the prophet Nathan came to him, after he had gone in to Bathsheba.
Proverbs 21:3
To do what is right and just is more acceptable to the LORD than sacrifice.
Isaiah 1:11-17
"How do your voluminous sacrifices benefit me?" the LORD is asking. "I've had enough of burnt offerings of rams and the fat of well-fed beasts. I don't enjoy the blood of bulls, lambs, or goats.
Isaiah 58:5-7
"Is this the kind of fast that I have chosen, merely a day for a person to humble himself? Is it merely for bowing down one's head like a bulrush, for lying on sackcloth and ashes? Is this what you call a fast, an acceptable day to the LORD?
Jeremiah 7:21-23
This is what the LORD of the Heavenly Armies, the God of Israel, says:
Amos 5:21-24
"I hate I despise your festival days, and your solemn convocations stink.
1 Corinthians 13:1-3
If I speak in the languages of humans and angels but have no love, I have become a reverberating gong or a clashing cymbal.