Matthew 12:7

Bible in Basic English (1941)

But if these words had been in your minds, My desire is for mercy and not for offerings, you would not have been judging those who have done no wrong.

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  • Matt 9:13 : 13 But go and take to heart the sense of these words, My desire is for mercy, not offerings: for I have come not to get the upright, but sinners.
  • Hos 6:6 : 6 Because my desire is for mercy and not offerings; for the knowledge of God more than for burned offerings.
  • Mic 6:6-8 : 6 With what am I to come before the Lord and go with bent head before the high God? am I to come before him with burned offerings, with young oxen a year old? 7 Will the Lord be pleased with thousands of sheep or with ten thousand rivers of oil? am I to give my first child for my wrongdoing, the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul? 8 He has made clear to you, O man, what is good; and what is desired from you by the Lord; only doing what is right, and loving mercy, and walking without pride before your God.
  • Matt 22:29 : 29 But Jesus said to them in answer, You are in error, not having knowledge of the Writings, or of the power of God.
  • Acts 13:27 : 27 For the men of Jerusalem and their rulers, having no knowledge of him, or of the sayings of the prophets which come to their ears every Sabbath day, gave effect to them by judging him.
  • Jas 5:6 : 6 You have given your decision against the upright man and have put him to death. He puts up no fight against you.
  • Job 32:3 : 3 And he was angry with his three friends, because they had been unable to give him an answer, and had not made Job's sin clear.
  • Ps 94:21 : 21 They are banded together against the soul of the upright, to give decisions against those who have done no wrong.
  • Ps 109:31 : 31 For he is ever at the right hand of the poor, to take him out of the hands of those who go after his soul.
  • Prov 17:15 : 15 He who gives a decision for the evil-doer and he who gives a decision against the upright, are equally disgusting to the Lord.
  • Isa 1:11-17 : 11 What use to me is the number of the offerings which you give me? says the Lord; your burned offerings of sheep, and the best parts of fat cattle, are a weariness to me; I take no pleasure in the blood of oxen, or of lambs, or of he-goats. 12 At whose request do you come before me, making my house unclean with your feet? 13 Give me no more false offerings; the smoke of burning flesh is disgusting to me, so are your new moons and Sabbaths and your holy meetings. 14 Your new moons and your regular feasts are a grief to my soul: they are a weight in my spirit; I am crushed under them. 15 And when your hands are stretched out to me, my eyes will be turned away from you: even though you go on making prayers, I will not give ear: your hands are full of blood. 16 Be washed, make yourselves clean; put away the evil of your doings from before my eyes; let there be an end of sinning; 17 Take pleasure in well-doing; let your ways be upright, keep down the cruel, give a right decision for the child who has no father, see to the cause of the widow.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Matt 9:12-13
    2 verses
    79%

    12But on hearing this he said, Those who are well have no need of a medical man, but those who are ill.

    13But go and take to heart the sense of these words, My desire is for mercy, not offerings: for I have come not to get the upright, but sinners.

  • Matt 12:5-6
    2 verses
    76%

    5Or is it not said in the law, how the Sabbath is broken by the priests in the Temple and they do no wrong?

    6But I say to you that a greater thing than the Temple is here.

  • Hos 6:6
    75%

    6Because my desire is for mercy and not offerings; for the knowledge of God more than for burned offerings.

  • Matt 12:8
    73%

    8For the Son of man is lord of the Sabbath.

  • Luke 19:42
    72%

    42Saying, If you, even you, had knowledge today, of the things which give peace! but you are not able to see them.

  • Matt 12:10-12
    3 verses
    72%

    10And there was a man with a dead hand. And they put a question to him, saying, Is it right to make a man well on the Sabbath day? so that they might have something against him.

    11And he said to them, Which of you, having a sheep, if it gets into a hole on the Sabbath day, will not put out a helping hand and get it back?

    12Of how much more value is a man than a sheep! For this reason it is right to do good on the Sabbath day.

  • Matt 15:5-7
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    5But you say, If a man says to his father or his mother, That by which you might have had profit from me is given to God;

    6There is no need for him to give honour to his father. And you have made the word of God without effect because of your teaching.

    7You false ones, well did Isaiah say of you,

  • Luke 6:36-37
    2 verses
    71%

    36Be full of pity, even as your Father is full of pity.

    37Be not judges of others, and you will not be judged: do not give punishment to others, and you will not get punishment yourselves: make others free, and you will be made free:

  • Matt 7:1
    71%

    1Be not judges of others, and you will not be judged.

  • Matt 18:33
    70%

    33Was it not right for you to have mercy on the other servant, even as I had mercy on you?

  • Mark 7:11-13
    3 verses
    70%

    11But you say, If a man says to his father or his mother, That by which you might have had profit from me is Corban, that is to say, Given to God,

    12You no longer let him do anything for his father or his mother;

    13Making the word of God of no effect by your rule, which you have given: and a number of other such things you do.

  • Jas 5:6
    70%

    6You have given your decision against the upright man and have put him to death. He puts up no fight against you.

  • Acts 13:27
    70%

    27For the men of Jerusalem and their rulers, having no knowledge of him, or of the sayings of the prophets which come to their ears every Sabbath day, gave effect to them by judging him.

  • Luke 12:56-57
    2 verses
    70%

    56O false ones! the face of the earth and the heaven is clear to you; how is it that the signs of these times are not as clear to you?

    57And why are you, in your hearts, unable to be judges of what is right?

  • Matt 27:4
    70%

    4Saying, I have done wrong in giving into your hands an upright man. But they said, What is that to us? it is your business.

  • Matt 12:2-3
    2 verses
    70%

    2But the Pharisees, when they saw it, said to him, See, your disciples do that which it is not right to do on the Sabbath.

    3But he said to them, Have you no knowledge of what David did when he had need of food, and those who were with him?

  • Mark 11:17
    69%

    17And he gave them teaching, and said to them, Is it not in the Writings, My house is to be named a house of prayer for all the nations? but you have made it a hole of thieves.

  • Matt 12:17
    69%

    17So that what was said by Isaiah the prophet might come true,

  • Matt 12:37
    69%

    37For by your words will your righteousness be seen, and by your words you will be judged.

  • Mark 3:4
    69%

    4And he said to them, Is it right to do good on the Sabbath or to do evil? to give life or to put to death? But they said nothing.

  • Matt 11:22
    69%

    22But I say to you, It will be better for Tyre and Sidon in the day of judging, than for you.

  • Heb 10:8
    69%

    8After saying, You had no desire for offerings, for burned offerings or offerings for sin (which are made by the law) and you had no pleasure in them,

  • Jas 2:13
    69%

    13For the man who has had no mercy will be judged without mercy, but mercy takes pride in overcoming judging.

  • Luke 10:14
    69%

    14But it will be better for Tyre and Sidon, in the day of judging, than for you.

  • Heb 10:5-6
    2 verses
    69%

    5So that when he comes into the world, he says, You had no desire for offerings, but you made a body ready for me;

    6You had no joy in burned offerings or in offerings for sin.

  • Luke 6:9
    69%

    9And Jesus said, I put the question to you, Is it right to do good on the Sabbath or to do evil? to give life or to take it away?

  • Matt 7:12
    69%

    12All those things, then, which you would have men do to you, even so do you to them: because this is the law and the prophets.

  • Luke 16:15
    69%

    15And he said, You take care to seem right in the eyes of men, but God sees your hearts: and those things which are important in the opinion of men, are evil in the eyes of God.

  • John 7:24
    68%

    24Let not your decisions be based on what you see, but on righteousness.

  • Matt 12:31
    68%

    31So I say to you, Every sin and every evil word against God will have forgiveness; but for evil words against the Spirit there will be no forgiveness.

  • Matt 23:25
    68%

    25A curse is on you, scribes and Pharisees, false ones! for you make clean the outside of the cup and of the plate, but inside they are full of violent behaviour and uncontrolled desire.

  • Matt 5:7
    68%

    7Happy are those who have mercy: for they will be given mercy.

  • Matt 11:24
    68%

    24But I say to you that it will be better for the land of Sodom in the day of judging, than for you.

  • Matt 23:30
    68%

    30If we had been living in the days of our fathers, we would not have taken part with them in the blood of the prophets.

  • Luke 11:39
    68%

    39And the Lord said to him, You Pharisees make the outside of the cup and the plate clean; but inside you are thieves and full of evil.

  • Matt 6:15
    68%

    15But if you do not let men have forgiveness for their sins, you will not have forgiveness from your Father for your sins.

  • Mark 12:10
    68%

    10Have you not seen this which is in the Writings: The stone which the builders put on one side, the same was made the chief stone of the building:

  • Ps 40:6
    67%

    6You had no desire for offerings of beasts or fruits of the earth; ears you made for me: for burned offerings and sin offerings you made no request.