Jeremiah 7:22 Cross References - ISV

²² Indeed, when I brought your ancestors out of the land of Egypt, I didn’t speak or command them about burnt offering and sacrifice,

²² Samuel said, “Does the LORD delight as much in burnt offerings and sacrifices as in obeying the LORD? Surely, to obey is better than sacrifice, to pay attention is better than the fat of rams.

⁶ You take no delight in sacrifices and offerings— you have prepared my ears to listen— you require no burnt offerings or sacrifices for sin.

⁸ I do not rebuke you because of your sacrifices; indeed, your burnt offerings are continuously before me. ⁹ I will no longer accept a sacrificial bull from your household; nor goats from your pens. ¹⁰ Indeed, every animal of the forest is mine, even the cattle on a thousand hills. ¹¹ I know all the birds in the mountains; indeed, everything that moves in the field is mine. ¹² “If I were hungry, I would not tell you; for the world is mine along with everything in it. ¹³ Why should I eat the flesh of oxen or drink the blood of goats? ¹⁴ Offer to God a thanksgiving praise; pay your vows to the Most High. ¹⁵ Call on me in the day of distress; I will deliver you, and you will glorify me.” ¹⁶ As for the wicked, God says, “How dare you recite my statutes or speak about my covenant with your lips! ¹⁷ You hate instruction and toss my words behind you.

¹⁶ Indeed, you do not delight in sacrifices, or I would give them, nor do you desire burnt offerings. ¹⁷ True sacrifice to God is a broken spirit. A broken and chastened heart, God, you will not despise.

⁶ For it is love that I seek, and not sacrifice; knowledge of God more than burnt offerings.

¹³ Go and learn what this means: ‘I want mercy and not sacrifice,’ because I did not come to call righteous people, but sinners.”

³³ To love him with all your heart, with all your understanding, and with all your strength, and to love your neighbor as yourself is more important than all the burnt offerings and sacrifices.”