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From the Blue Letter Bible
Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Hsa 6:6 — For I desired mercy, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings.
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1Sa 15:22 |
And Samuel said, Hath the LORD [as great] delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices, as in obeying the voice of the LORD? Behold, to obey [is] better than sacrifice, [and] to hearken than the fat of rams. |
  
  
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Psa 50:8 |
I will not reprove thee for thy sacrifices or thy burnt offerings, [to have been] continually before me. |
  
  
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Pro 21:3 |
To do justice and judgment [is] more acceptable to the LORD than sacrifice. |
  
  
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Ecc 5:1 |
Keep thy foot when thou goest to the house of God, and be more ready to hear, than to give the sacrifice of fools: for they consider not that they do evil. |
  
  
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Isa 1:11 |
To what purpose [is] the multitude of your sacrifices unto me? saith the LORD: I am full of the burnt offerings of rams, and the fat of fed beasts; and I delight not in the blood of bullocks, or of lambs, or of he goats. |
  
  
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Isa 58:6 |
[Is] not this the fast that I have chosen? to loose the bands of wickedness, to undo the heavy burdens, and to let the oppressed go free, and that ye break every yoke? |
  
  
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Jer 7:22 |
For I spake not unto your fathers, nor commanded them in the day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt, concerning burnt offerings or sacrifices: |
  
  
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Dan 4:27 |
Wherefore, O king, let my counsel be acceptable unto thee, and break off thy sins by righteousness, and thine iniquities by shewing mercy to the poor; if it may be a lengthening of thy tranquillity. |
  
  
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Amo 5:21 |
I hate, I despise your feast days, and I will not smell in your solemn assemblies. |
  
  
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Mic 6:6 |
Wherewith shall I come before the LORD, [and] bow myself before the high God? shall I come before him with burnt offerings, with calves of a year old? |
  
  
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Mat 5:7 |
Blessed [are] the merciful: for they shall obtain mercy. |
  
  
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Mat 9:13 |
But go ye and learn what [that] meaneth, I will have mercy, and not sacrifice: for I am not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance. |
  
  
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Mat 12:7 |
But if ye had known what [this] meaneth, I will have mercy, and not sacrifice, ye would not have condemned the guiltless. |
  
  
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Hsa 4:1 |
Hear the word of the LORD, ye children of Israel: for the LORD hath a controversy with the inhabitants of the land, because [there is] no truth, nor mercy, nor knowledge of God in the land. |
  
  
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1Ch 28:9 |
And thou, Solomon my son, know thou the God of thy father, and serve him with a perfect heart and with a willing mind: for the LORD searcheth all hearts, and understandeth all the imaginations of the thoughts: if thou seek him, he will be found of thee; but if thou forsake him, he will cast thee off for ever. |
  
  
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Jer 22:16 |
He judged the cause of the poor and needy; then [it was] well [with him: was] not this to know me? saith the LORD. |
  
  
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1Jo 2:3 |
And hereby we do know that we know him, if we keep his commandments. |
  
  
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1Jo 3:6 |
Whosoever abideth in him sinneth not: whosoever sinneth hath not seen him, neither known him. |
Cite This Page: (explanation of citations)
Scott, Thomas. "Hosea 6:6," The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. Blue Letter Bible. 1836. 9 Jul 2004. . <http://www.blueletterbible.org/tsk_b/Hsa/6/6.html>.

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