"For I desired mercy, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings."
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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?
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:
He judged the cause of the poor and needy; then it was well with him: was not this to know me? saith the LORD.
I will even betroth thee unto me in faithfulness: and thou shalt know the LORD.
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.
I hate, I despise your feast days, and I will not smell in your solemn assemblies.
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?
Blessed are the merciful: for they shall obtain mercy.
And hereby we do know that we know him, if we keep his commandments.
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.
I will not reprove thee for thy sacrifices or thy burnt offerings, to have been continually before me.
To do justice and judgment is more acceptable to the LORD than sacrifice.
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.
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.
Whosoever abideth in him sinneth not: whosoever sinneth hath not seen him, neither known him.
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.
Because my desire is for mercy and not offerings; for the knowledge of God more than for burned offerings.
For I delight in loving-kindness, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more than burnt-offerings.
For I desired mercy, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings.
For I desired mercy, and not sacrifice: and the knowledge of God more than burnt-offerings.
For I desire mercy, and not sacrifice; And the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings.
For kindness I desired, and not sacrifice, And a knowledge of God above burnt-offerings.