1Sa 15:22 Cross References

1 Samuel 15:22

22: But Samuel replied, "What is more pleasing to the LORD: your burnt offerings and sacrifices or your obedience to his voice? Obedience is far better than sacrifice. Listening to him is much better than offering the fat of rams.

Hosea 6:6

  1. I want you to be merciful; I don't want your sacrifices. I want you to know God; that's more important than burnt offerings.

Psalms 51:16

  1. You would not be pleased with sacrifices, or I would bring them. If I brought you a burnt offering, you would not accept it.
  2. The sacrifice you want is a broken spirit. A broken and repentant heart, O God, you will not despise.

Proverbs 21:3

  1. The LORD is more pleased when we do what is just and right than when we give him sacrifices.

Amos 5:21

  1. "I hate all your show and pretense--the hypocrisy of your religious festivals and solemn assemblies.
  2. I will not accept your burnt offerings and grain offerings. I won't even notice all your choice peace offerings.
  3. Away with your hymns of praise! They are only noise to my ears. I will not listen to your music, no matter how lovely it is.
  4. Instead, I want to see a mighty flood of justice, a river of righteous living that will never run dry.

Mark 12:33

  1. And I know it is important to love him with all my heart and all my understanding and all my strength, and to love my neighbors as myself. This is more important than to offer all of the burnt offerings and sacrifices required in the law."

Matthew 9:13

  1. Then he added, "Now go and learn the meaning of this Scripture: 'I want you to be merciful; I don't want your sacrifices.' For I have come to call sinners, not those who think they are already good enough."

Micah 6:6

  1. What can we bring to the LORD to make up for what we've done? Should we bow before God with offerings of yearling calves?
  2. Should we offer him thousands of rams and tens of thousands of rivers of olive oil? Would that please the LORD? Should we sacrifice our firstborn children to pay for the sins of our souls? Would that make him glad?
  3. No, O people, the LORD has already told you what is good, and this is what he requires: to do what is right, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God.

Jeremiah 7:22

  1. When I led your ancestors out of Egypt, it was not burnt offerings and sacrifices I wanted from them.
  2. This is what I told them: `Obey me, and I will be your God, and you will be my people. Only do as I say, and all will be well!'

Psalms 40:6

  1. You take no delight in sacrifices or offerings. Now that you have made me listen, I finally understand--you don't require burnt offerings or sin offerings.
  2. Then I said, "Look, I have come. And this has been written about me in your scroll:
  3. I take joy in doing your will, my God, for your law is written on my heart."

Ecclesiastes 5:1

  1. As you enter the house of God, keep your ears open and your mouth shut! Don't be a fool who doesn't realize that mindless offerings to God are evil.

Matthew 12:7

  1. But you would not have condemned those who aren't guilty if you knew the meaning of this Scripture: 'I want you to be merciful; I don't want your sacrifices.'

Isaiah 1:11

  1. "I am sick of your sacrifices," says the LORD. "Don't bring me any more burnt offerings! I don't want the fat from your rams or other animals. I don't want to see the blood from your offerings of bulls and rams and goats.
  2. Why do you keep parading through my courts with your worthless sacrifices?
  3. The incense you bring me is a stench in my nostrils! Your celebrations of the new moon and the Sabbath day, and your special days for fasting--even your most pious meetings--are all sinful and false. I want nothing more to do with them.
  4. I hate all your festivals and sacrifices. I cannot stand the sight of them!
  5. From now on, when you lift up your hands in prayer, I will refuse to look. Even though you offer many prayers, I will not listen. For your hands are covered with the blood of your innocent victims.

Hebrews 10:4

  1. For it is not possible for the blood of bulls and goats to take away sins.
  2. That is why Christ, when he came into the world, said, "You did not want animal sacrifices and grain offerings. But you have given me a body so that I may obey you.
  3. No, you were not pleased with animals burned on the altar or with other offerings for sin.
  4. Then I said, 'Look, I have come to do your will, O God--just as it is written about me in the Scriptures.'"
  5. Christ said, "You did not want animal sacrifices or grain offerings or animals burned on the altar or other offerings for sin, nor were you pleased with them" (though they are required by the law of Moses).

Matthew 23:23

  1. "How terrible it will be for you teachers of religious law and you Pharisees. Hypocrites! For you are careful to tithe even the tiniest part of your income, but you ignore the important things of the law--justice, mercy, and faith. You should tithe, yes, but you should not leave undone the more important things.

Matthew 5:24

  1. leave your sacrifice there beside the altar. Go and be reconciled to that person. Then come and offer your sacrifice to God.

Psalms 50:8

  1. I have no complaint about your sacrifices or the burnt offerings you constantly bring to my altar.
  2. But I want no more bulls from your barns; I want no more goats from your pens.

Jeremiah 26:13

  1. But if you stop your sinning and begin to obey the LORD your God, he will cancel this disaster that he has announced against you.

Jeremiah 11:7

  1. For I solemnly warned your ancestors when I brought them out of Egypt, repeating over and over again to this day: "Obey me!"

Exodus 19:5

  1. Now if you will obey me and keep my covenant, you will be my own special treasure from among all the nations of the earth; for all the earth belongs to me.

Jeremiah 11:4

  1. For I said to your ancestors when I brought them out of slavery in Egypt, "If you obey me and do whatever I command you, then you will be my people, and I will be your God."
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