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."
1 Samuel 15:22
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.
Hosea 6:6
For I delight in faithfulness, not simply in sacrifice; I delight in acknowledging God, not simply in whole burnt offerings.
Micah 6:6-8
With what should I enter the Lord's presence? With what should I bow before the sovereign God? Should I enter his presence with burnt offerings, with year-old calves?
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."
Matthew 12:7
If you had known what this means: 'I want mercy and not sacrifice,' you would not have condemned the innocent.
Hebrews 10:8
When he says above, "Sacrifices and offerings and whole burnt offerings and sin-offerings you did not desire nor did you take delight in them" (which are offered according to the law),
Psalm 50:8-15
I am not condemning you because of your sacrifices, or because of your burnt sacrifices that you continually offer me.
Psalm 50:23
Whoever presents a thank-offering honors me. To whoever obeys my commands, I will reveal my power to deliver."
Proverbs 21:3
To do righteousness and justice is more acceptable to the Lord than sacrifice.
Isaiah 1:11-17
"Of what importance to me are your many sacrifices?" says the Lord. "I am stuffed with burnt sacrifices of rams and the fat from steers. The blood of bulls, lambs, and goats I do not want.
Isaiah 58:5-7
Is this really the kind of fasting I want? Do I want a day when people merely humble themselves, bowing their heads like a reed and stretching out on sackcloth and ashes? Is this really what you call a fast, a day that is pleasing to the Lord?
Jeremiah 7:21-23
The Lord said to the people of Judah, "The Lord God of Israel who rules over all says: 'You might as well go ahead and add the meat of your burnt offerings to that of the other sacrifices and eat it, too!
Amos 5:21-24
"I absolutely despise your festivals! I get no pleasure from your religious assemblies!
1 Corinthians 13:1-3
If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but I do not have love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal.