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From the Blue Letter Bible
Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Pro 21:3 — To do justice and judgment [is] more acceptable to the LORD than sacrifice.
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Pro 15:8 |
The sacrifice of the wicked [is] an abomination to the LORD: but the prayer of the upright [is] his delight. |
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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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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 1:12 |
When ye come to appear before me, who hath required this at your hand, to tread my courts? |
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Isa 1:13 |
Bring no more vain oblations; incense is an abomination unto me; the new moons and sabbaths, the calling of assemblies, I cannot away with; [it is] iniquity, even the solemn meeting. |
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Isa 1:14 |
Your new moons and your appointed feasts my soul hateth: they are a trouble unto me; I am weary to bear [them]. |
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Isa 1:15 |
And when ye spread forth your hands, I will hide mine eyes from you: yea, when ye make many prayers, I will not hear: your hands are full of blood. |
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Isa 1:16 |
Wash you, make you clean; put away the evil of your doings from before mine eyes; cease to do evil; |
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Isa 1:17 |
Learn to do well; seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow. |
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Jer 7:21 |
Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Put your burnt offerings unto your sacrifices, and eat flesh. |
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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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Jer 7:23 |
But this thing commanded I them, saying, Obey my voice, and I will be your God, and ye shall be my people: and walk ye in all the ways that I have commanded you, that it may be well unto you. |
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Hsa 6:6 |
For I desired mercy, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings. |
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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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Mic 6:7 |
Will the LORD be pleased with thousands of rams, [or] with ten thousands of rivers of oil? shall I give my firstborn [for] my transgression, the fruit of my body [for] the sin of my soul? |
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Mic 6:8 |
He hath shewed thee, O man, what [is] good; and what doth the LORD require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God? |
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Mar 12:33 |
And to love him with all the heart, and with all the understanding, and with all the soul, and with all the strength, and to love [his] neighbour as himself, is more than all whole burnt offerings and sacrifices. |
Cite This Page: (explanation of citations)
Scott, Thomas. "Proverbs 21:3," The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. Blue Letter Bible. 1836. 9 Jul 2004. .
<http://www.blueletterbible.org/tsk_b/Pro/21/3.html>.
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