Proverbs 21:3 Cross References

Proverbs 21:3

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

1 Samuel 15:22

  1. 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.

Proverbs 15:8

  1. The LORD hates the sacrifice of the wicked, but he delights in the prayers of the upright.

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.

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.

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."

Jeremiah 7:21

  1. This is what the LORD Almighty, the God of Israel, says: "Away with your burnt offerings and sacrifices! Eat them yourselves!
  2. When I led your ancestors out of Egypt, it was not burnt offerings and sacrifices I wanted from them.
  3. 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 50:8

  1. I have no complaint about your sacrifices or the burnt offerings you constantly bring to my altar.

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.
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