Proverbs 21:3
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“To do righteousness and justice is more desirable to the LORD than sacrifice.”
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“To do righteousness and justice is more desirable to the LORD than sacrifice.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“To do justice and judgment is more acceptable to the Lord than sacrifice.”
King James Version · Public Domain“To do righteousness and justice Is more acceptable to Jehovah than sacrifice.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“To do righteousness and judgment, Is chosen of Jehovah rather than sacrifice.”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Proverbs 21:3 — 12 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- 1 Samuel 15:22But Samuel declared: “Does the LORD delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices as much as in obedience to His voice? Behold, obedience is better than sacrifice, and attentiveness is better than the fat of rams.
- Psalms 40:7Then I said, “Here I am, I have come— it is written about me in the scroll:
- Psalms 50:8I do not rebuke you for your sacrifices, and your burnt offerings are ever before Me.
- Proverbs 15:8The sacrifice of the wicked is detestable to the LORD, but the prayer of the upright is His delight.
- Isaiah 1:11“What good to Me is your multitude of sacrifices?” says the LORD. “I am full from the burnt offerings of rams and the fat of well-fed cattle; I take no delight in the blood of bulls and lambs and goats.
- Isaiah 1:17Learn to do right; seek justice and correct the oppressor. Defend the fatherless and plead the case of the widow.”
- Jeremiah 7:21This is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: Add your burnt offerings to your other sacrifices and eat the meat yourselves!
- Hosea 6:6For I desire mercy, not sacrifice, and the knowledge of God rather than burnt offerings.
- Micah 6:6With what shall I come before the LORD when I bow before the God on high? Should I come to Him with burnt offerings, with year-old calves?
- Micah 6:8He has shown you, O man, what is good. And what does the LORD require of you but to act justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God?
- Zechariah 7:9“This is what the LORD of Hosts says: ‘Administer true justice. Show loving devotion and compassion to one another.
- Mark 12:33and to love Him with all your heart and with all your understanding and with all your strength, and to love your neighbor as yourself, which is more important than all burnt offerings and sacrifices.”
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