Thematic Bible: What is better than sacrifice

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. Verse ConceptsGod, Joy OfAcceptance, divineFatnessevil, believers' responses toAcceptance, Of WorshipDelight, God ExpressingBurnt offeringNominal ReligionOrthodoxy, In OtPrayer, Advice For EffectiveRamsSin, God's Remedy ForWorship, Acceptable AttitudesWorship, Hindrances ToOfferings, FigurativePriorityObedience To GodFat Of The SacrificesNot Pleasing GodPay Attention To God!Right SacrificesBlessings Of ObedienceObedienceSacrificesSacrificeObeying Godobeying

To do righteousness and justice is more acceptable to LORD than sacrifice. Verse ConceptsAcceptance, From GodAcceptance, divineethics, socialethics, incentives towardsAcceptance, Of WorshipJustice, In Believers' LivesLaw, Letter And Spirit OfOrthodoxy, In OtSin, God's Remedy ForOfferings, FigurativeA Righteous PeopleRight SacrificesSacrificesInjusticeSacrificeDoing The Right ThingExerciseMoralityfairness

And one of the scholars having come, having heard them disputing, knowing that he had answered them well, he questioned him, Which is the first commandment of all? And Jesus answered him, The first of all the commandments is, Hear, thou Israel, Lord our God is one Lord, and thou shall love Lord thy God from thy whole heart, and from thy whole soul, and from thy whole mind, and from thy whole strength. This is the first commandment. read more.
And this second is similar, Thou shall love thy neighbor as thyself. There is no other commandment greater than these. And the scholar said to him, Well, teacher. Thou spoke in truth that he is one, and there is no other but he. 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.