Proverbs 21:3

Bible in Basic English (1941)

To do what is right and true is more pleasing to the Lord than an offering.

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Referenced Verses

  • 1 Sam 15:22 : 22 And Samuel said, Has the Lord as much delight in offerings and burned offerings as in the doing of his orders? Truly, to do his pleasure is better than to make offerings, and to give ear to him than the fat of sheep.
  • Prov 15:8 : 8 The offering of the evil-doer is disgusting to the Lord, but the prayer of the upright man is his delight.
  • 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.
  • Mark 12:33 : 33 And to have love for him with all the heart, and with all the mind, and with all the strength, and to have the same love for his neighbour as for himself, is much more than all forms of offerings.
  • 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.
  • Jer 7:21-23 : 21 These are the words of the Lord of armies, the God of Israel: Put your burned offerings with your offerings of beasts, and take flesh for your food. 22 For I said nothing to your fathers, and gave them no orders, on the day when I took them out of Egypt, about burned offerings or offerings of beasts: 23 But this was the order I gave them, saying, Give ear to my voice, and I will be your God, and you will be my people: go in all the way ordered by me, so that all may be well for you.
  • Ps 50:8 : 8 I will not take up a cause against you because of your offerings, or because of your burned offerings, which are ever before me.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Prov 21:2
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    2 Every way of a man seems right to himself, but the Lord is the tester of hearts.

  • 1 Sam 15:22
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    22 And Samuel said, Has the Lord as much delight in offerings and burned offerings as in the doing of his orders? Truly, to do his pleasure is better than to make offerings, and to give ear to him than the fat of sheep.

  • Prov 21:27
    74%

    27 The offering of evil-doers is disgusting: how much more when they give it with an evil purpose!

  • Hos 6:6
    73%

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

  • Prov 11:1
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    1 Scales of deceit are hated by the Lord, but a true weight is his delight.

  • Ps 69:31
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    31 This will be more pleasing to the Lord than an ox, or a young ox of full growth.

  • Prov 15:8-9
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    8 The offering of the evil-doer is disgusting to the Lord, but the prayer of the upright man is his delight.

    9 The way of the evil-doer is disgusting to the Lord, but he who goes after righteousness is dear to him.

  • Ps 4:5
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    5 Give the offerings of righteousness, and put your faith in the Lord.

  • Prov 21:15
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    15 It is a joy to the good man to do right, but it is destruction to the workers of evil.

  • Isa 1:17
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    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.

  • Prov 16:8
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    8 Better is a little with righteousness, than great wealth with wrongdoing.

  • Mal 1:8
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    8 And when you give what is blind for an offering, it is no evil! and when you give what is damaged and ill, it is no evil! Give it now to your ruler; will he be pleased with you, or will you have his approval? says the Lord of armies.

  • Isa 66:3
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    3 He who puts an ox to death puts a man to death; he who makes an offering of a lamb puts a dog to death; he who makes a meal offering makes an offering of pig's blood; he who makes an offering of perfumes for a sign gives worship to an image: as they have gone after their desires, and their soul takes pleasure in their disgusting things;

  • Ps 51:16-17
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    16 You have no desire for an offering or I would give it; you have no delight in burned offerings.

    17 The offerings of God are a broken spirit; a broken and sorrowing heart, O God, you will not put from you.

  • Jer 22:16-17
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    71%

    16 He was judge in the cause of the poor and those in need; then it was well. Was not this to have knowledge of me? says the Lord.

    17 But your eyes and your heart are fixed only on profit for yourself, on causing the death of him who has done no wrong, and on violent and cruel acts.

  • Ps 106:3
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    3 Happy are they whose decisions are upright, and he who does righteousness at all times.

  • Isa 1:11-12
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    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?

  • Isa 56:1
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    1 The Lord says, Let your way of life be upright, and let your behaviour be rightly ordered: for my salvation is near, and my righteousness will quickly be seen.

  • Ezek 18:5
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    5 But if a man is upright, living rightly and doing righteousness,

  • Lam 3:35-36
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    35 In his turning away the right of a man before the face of the Most High.

    36 In his doing wrong to a man in his cause, the Lord has no pleasure.

  • Ps 51:19
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    19 Then you will have delight in the offerings of righteousness, in burned offerings and offerings of beasts; then they will make offerings of oxen on your altar.

  • 2 Chr 19:6
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    6 And said to the judges, Take care what you do, for you are judging not for man but for the Lord, and he is with you in the decisions you give.

  • Ps 7:8-9
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    8 The Lord will be judge of the peoples; give a decision for me, O Lord, because of my righteousness, and let my virtue have its reward.

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    5 To have respect for the person of the evil-doer is not good, or to give a wrong decision against the upright.

  • Jer 7:5
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    5 For if your ways and your doings are truly changed for the better; if you truly give right decisions between a man and his neighbour;

  • Jer 22:3
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    3 This is what the Lord has said: Do what is right, judging uprightly, and make free from the hands of the cruel one him whose goods have been violently taken away: do no wrong and be not violent to the man from a strange country and the child without a father and the widow, and let not those who have done no wrong be put to death in this place.

  • Prov 17:15
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    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.

  • Prov 21:4
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    4 A high look and a heart of pride, *** of the evil-doer is sin.

  • Mic 6:8
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    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.

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    21 It was the Lord's pleasure, because of his righteousness, to make the teaching great and give it honour.

  • Ps 33:5
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    5 His delight is in righteousness and wisdom; the earth is full of the mercy of the Lord.

  • Mal 3:4
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    4 Then the offering of Judah and Jerusalem will be pleasing to the Lord, as in days gone by, and as in past years.

  • Prov 16:2
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    2 All a man's ways are clean to himself; but the Lord puts men's spirits into his scales.

  • Prov 16:11-12
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    11 True measures and scales are the Lord's: all the weights of the bag are his work.

    12 Evil-doing is disgusting to kings: for the seat of the ruler is based on righteousness.

  • Prov 29:27
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    27 An evil man is disgusting to the upright, and he who is upright is disgusting to evil-doers.

  • Prov 20:23
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    23 Unequal weights are disgusting to the Lord, and false scales are not good.

  • Lev 19:15
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    15 Do no wrong in your judging: do not give thought to the position of the poor, or honour to the position of the great; but be a judge to your neighbour in righteousness.

  • Deut 16:20
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    20 Let righteousness be your guide, so that you may have life, and take for your heritage the land which the Lord your God is giving you.

  • Eccl 5:1
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    1 Be not unwise with your mouth, and let not your heart be quick to say anything before God, because God is in heaven and you are on the earth--so let not the number of your words be great.

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    6 The Lord gives decisions in righteousness for all who are in trouble.

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  • Eccl 3:16
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    16 And again, I saw under the sun, in the place of the judges, that evil was there; and in the place of righteousness, that evil was there.