Parallel Verses
A Conservative Version
To do righteousness and justice is more acceptable to LORD than sacrifice.
New American Standard Bible
Is desired by the Lord more than sacrifice.
King James Version
To do justice and judgment is more acceptable to the LORD than sacrifice.
Holman Bible
is more acceptable to the Lord than sacrifice.
International Standard Version
To do what is right and just is more acceptable to the LORD than sacrifice.
American Standard Version
To do righteousness and justice Is more acceptable to Jehovah than sacrifice.
Amplified
To do righteousness and justice
Is more acceptable to the Lord than sacrifice [for wrongs repeatedly committed].
Bible in Basic English
To do what is right and true is more pleasing to the Lord than an offering.
Darby Translation
To exercise justice and judgment is more acceptable to Jehovah than sacrifice.
Julia Smith Translation
To do justice and judgment was chosen by Jehovah above gold.
King James 2000
To do righteousness and justice is more acceptable to the LORD than sacrifice.
Lexham Expanded Bible
Doing righteousness and justice is [more] acceptable to Yahweh than sacrifice.
Modern King James verseion
To do justice and judgment is more pleasing to Jehovah than sacrifice.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
To do righteousness and judgment is more acceptable to the LORD than sacrifice.
NET Bible
To do righteousness and justice is more acceptable to the Lord than sacrifice.
New Heart English Bible
To do righteousness and justice is more acceptable to the LORD than sacrifice.
The Emphasized Bible
To do righteousness and justice, is more choice to Yahweh than sacrifice.
Webster
To do justice and judgment is more acceptable to the LORD than sacrifice.
World English Bible
To do righteousness and justice is more acceptable to Yahweh than sacrifice.
Youngs Literal Translation
To do righteousness and judgment, Is chosen of Jehovah rather than sacrifice.
Themes
Offerings » Useless when not accompanied by genuine piety
Sacrifice » What is better than sacrifice
Topics
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Ts@daqah
Mishpat
Bachar
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Proverbs 21:3
Images Proverbs 21:3
Prayers for Proverbs 21:3
Verse Info
Context Readings
Proverbs Of Solomon
2 Every way of a man is right in his own eyes, but LORD weighs the hearts. 3 To do righteousness and justice is more acceptable to LORD than sacrifice. 4 A high look, and a proud heart, [even] the lamp of the wicked, is sin.
Phrases
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Cross References
1 Samuel 15:22
And Samuel said, Has LORD as great delight in burnt-offerings and sacrifices, as in obeying the voice of LORD? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to hearken than the fat of rams.
Proverbs 15:8
The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination to LORD, but the prayer of the upright is his delight.
Hosea 6:6
For I desire mercy, and not sacrifice, and the knowledge of God more than burnt-offerings.
Micah 6:6-8
Why shall I come before LORD, and bow myself before the high God? Shall I come before him with burnt-offerings, with calves a year old?
Psalm 50:8
I will not reprove thee for thy sacrifices, and thy burnt-offerings [being] continually before me.
Isaiah 1:11-17
What to me is the multitude of your sacrifices? says LORD. I have had enough of the burnt-offerings of rams, and the fat of fed beasts. And I do not delight in the blood of bullocks or of lambs or of he-goats.
Jeremiah 7:21-23
Thus says LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: Add your burnt-offerings to your sacrifices, and eat ye flesh.
Mark 12:33
And to love him from the whole heart, and from the whole understanding, and from the whole soul, and from the whole strength, and to love his neighbor as himself, is more than all whole burnt-offerings and sacrifices.