Proverbs 21:3 Cross References - Leeser

³ To exercise righteousness and justice is more acceptable to the Lord than sacrifice.

²² And Samuel said, Hath the Lord as much delight in burnt-offerings and in sacrifices, as in obeying the voice of the Lord? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to attend more than the fat of the rams.

⁸ Not because of thy sacrifices will I reprove thee; and thy burnt-offerings are continually before me.

⁸ The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination of the Lord: but, the prayer of the upright obtaineth his favor.

¹¹ For what serveth me the multitude of your sacrifices? saith the Lord: I am sated with the burnt-offerings of rams, and the fat of fatted beasts; and the blood of bullocks, and of sheep, and of he-goats, I do not desire. ¹² When ye come to appear in my presence—who hath required this at your hand, to tread down my courts? ¹³ Continue no more to bring an oblation of deceit; incense of abomination is it unto me: new moon and sabbath, the calling of assemblies—I cannot bear misdeed with festive gathering. ¹⁴ Your new moons and your appointed feasts my soul hateth; they are become a burden unto me; I am weary to bear them, ¹⁵ And when ye spread forth your hands, I will withdraw my eyes from you; yea, when ye make ever so many prayers, I will not hear: your hands are full of blood. ¹⁶ Wash yourselves, make yourselves clean; put away the evil of your deeds from before my eyes; cease to do evil; ¹⁷ Learn to do well; seek for justice, relieve the oppressed, do justice to the fatherless, plead for the widow.

²¹ Thus hath said the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, Add your burnt-offerings unto your peace-sacrifices, and eat the flesh thereof. ²² For I spoke not with your fathers, and I commanded them not on the day of my bringing them out of the land of Egypt, concerning burnt-offering or sacrifice; ²³ But this thing did I command them, saying, Hearken to my voice, and I will be unto you for a God, and ye shall be unto me for a people; and walk ye altogether on the way which I may command you, in order that it may be well unto you.

⁶ For piety I desired, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God, more than burnt-offerings.

⁶ Wherewith shall I come before the Lord, bow myself before the God on high? shall I come before him with burnt-offerings, with calves of a year old! ⁷ Will the Lord be pleased with thousands of rams, or with myriads of streams of oil? shall I give my first-born for my transgression, the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul? ⁸ He hath told thee, O man, what is good; and what the Lord doth require of thee: nothing but to do justice, and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with thy God.