Matthew 12:7

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

But if ye had known what this meaneth, I will have mercy, and not sacrifice, ye would not have condemned the guiltless.

If

Matthew 9:13

Matthew 22:29

Acts 13:27

I will

Isaiah 1:11

Hosea 6:6

Micah 6:6

Condemned

James 5:6

Bible References

If

Go and learn, what that meaneth: 'I have pleasure in mercy, and not in offering.' For I am not come to call the righteous, but the sinners to repentance."

Jesus answered and said unto them, "Ye are deceived, and understand not what the scripture meaneth, nor yet the power of God.

The inhabiters of Jerusalem, and their rulers: because they knew him not, nor yet the voices of the prophets which are read every Sabbath day; they have fulfilled them in condemning him.

I will

Why offer ye so many sacrifices unto me, sayeth the LORD? I am full of the burnt offerings of weathers, and with the fatness of fed beasts. I have no pleasure in the blood of bullocks, lambs, and goats.

For I have pleasure in loving-kindness, and not in offering: Yea in the knowledge of God, more than in burnt sacrifice.

"What acceptable thing shall I offer unto the LORD? Shall I bow my knee to the high God? Shall I come before him with burnt offerings, and with calves of a year old?

Condemned

And with Job's three friends he was angry also, because they had found no reasonable answer to overcome him.

They gather them together against the soul of the righteous, and condemn the innocent blood.

for he standeth at the righthand of the poor, to save him from such as condemn his soul.

The LORD hateth as well him that justifieth the ungodly, as him that condemneth the innocent.

Ye have condemned and have killed the just, and he hath not resisted you.