Matthew 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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- Hosea 6:6
"For I desired mercy, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings."
Read in chapter → - Matthew 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."
Read in chapter → - Micah 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?"
Read in chapter → - Isaiah 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."
Read in chapter → - Proverbs 17:15
"He that justifieth the wicked, and he that condemneth the just, even they both are abomination to the LORD."
Read in chapter → - Acts 13:27
"For they that dwell at Jerusalem, and their rulers, because they knew him not, nor yet the voices of the prophets which are read every sabbath day, they have fulfilled them in condemning him."
Read in chapter → - Matthew 22:29
"Jesus answered and said unto them, Ye do err, not knowing the scriptures, nor the power of God."
Read in chapter → - James 5:6
"Ye have condemned and killed the just; and he doth not resist you."
Read in chapter → - Psalms 94:21
"They gather themselves together against the soul of the righteous, and condemn the innocent blood."
Read in chapter → - Psalms 109:31
"For he shall stand at the right hand of the poor, to save him from those that condemn his soul."
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