Proverbs 21:3

KJV1611 – Modern English

To do justice and judgment is more acceptable to the LORD than sacrifice.

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  • 1 Sam 15:22 : 22 And Samuel said, Does the LORD have as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices, as in obeying the voice of the LORD? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to listen than the fat of rams.
  • Prov 15:8 : 8 The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination to the LORD, but the prayer of the upright is His delight.
  • Hos 6:6 : 6 For I desired mercy, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings.
  • Mic 6:6-8 : 6 With what shall I come before the LORD, and bow myself before the High God? Shall I come before Him with burnt offerings, with calves a year old? 7 Will the LORD be pleased with thousands of rams, or ten thousand rivers of oil? Shall I give my firstborn for my transgression, the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul? 8 He has shown you, O man, what is good; and what does the LORD require of you, but to do justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God?
  • Mark 12:33 : 33 And to love Him with all the heart, with all the understanding, with all the soul, and with all the strength, and to love one's neighbor as oneself, is more than all the whole burnt offerings and sacrifices.
  • Isa 1:11-17 : 11 To what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices to me? says the LORD: I am full of the burnt offerings of rams, and the fat of fed animals; and I delight not in the blood of oxen, or of lambs, or of goats. 12 When you come to appear before me, who has required this at your hand, to trample my courts? 13 Bring no more vain offerings; incense is an abomination to me; the new moons and sabbaths, the calling of assemblies, I cannot endure; it is iniquity, even the solemn meeting. 14 Your new moons and your appointed feasts my soul hates: they are a trouble to me; I am weary to bear them. 15 And when you spread out your hands, I will hide my eyes from you: indeed, when you make many prayers, I will not hear: your hands are full of blood. 16 Wash yourselves, make yourselves clean; put away the evil of your doings from before my eyes; cease to do evil; 17 Learn to do well; seek justice, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow.
  • Jer 7:21-23 : 21 Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Add your burnt offerings to your sacrifices, and eat meat. 22 For I did not speak to your fathers, nor command them in the day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt, concerning burnt offerings or sacrifices: 23 But this thing I commanded them, saying, Obey my voice, and I will be your God, and you shall be my people: and walk in all the ways that I have commanded you, that it may be well with you.
  • Ps 50:8 : 8 I will not reprove you for your sacrifices or your burnt offerings, which are ever before Me.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Prov 21:2
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    2Every way of a man is right in his own eyes, but the LORD weighs the hearts.

  • 1 Sam 15:22
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    22And Samuel said, Does the LORD have as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices, as in obeying the voice of the LORD? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to listen than the fat of rams.

  • Prov 21:27
    74%

    27The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination; how much more when he brings it with an evil intent?

  • Hos 6:6
    73%

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

  • Prov 11:1
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    1A false balance is an abomination to the LORD, but an accurate weight is His delight.

  • Ps 69:31
    73%

    31This also shall please the LORD better than an ox or bullock that has horns and hooves.

  • Prov 15:8-9
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    8The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination to the LORD, but the prayer of the upright is His delight.

    9The way of the wicked is an abomination to the LORD, but He loves those who pursue righteousness.

  • Ps 4:5
    71%

    5Offer the sacrifices of righteousness, and put your trust in the LORD.

  • Prov 21:15
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    15It is a joy for the just to do justice, but destruction awaits the workers of iniquity.

  • Isa 1:17
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    17Learn to do well; seek justice, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow.

  • Prov 16:8
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    8Better is a little with righteousness than vast revenues without justice.

  • Mal 1:8
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    8And if you offer the blind for sacrifice, is it not evil? and if you offer the lame and sick, is it not evil? Offer it now to your governor; will he be pleased with you, or accept you? says the LORD of hosts.

  • Isa 66:3
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    3He that kills an ox is as if he slew a man; he that sacrifices a lamb, as if he broke a dog's neck; he that offers an offering, as if he offered swine's blood; he that burns incense, as if he blessed an idol. Yes, they have chosen their own ways, and their soul delights in their abominations.

  • Ps 51:16-17
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    16For you do not desire sacrifice, or I would give it; you do not delight in burnt offering.

    17The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit, a broken and contrite heart, O God, you will not despise.

  • Jer 22:16-17
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    16He judged the cause of the poor and needy; then it was well with him: was not this to know me? says the LORD.

    17But your eyes and your heart are set only on your covetousness, and on shedding innocent blood, and on oppression, and on violence, to do it.

  • Ps 106:3
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    3Blessed are they who keep judgment and he who does righteousness at all times.

  • Isa 1:11-12
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    71%

    11To what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices to me? says the LORD: I am full of the burnt offerings of rams, and the fat of fed animals; and I delight not in the blood of oxen, or of lambs, or of goats.

    12When you come to appear before me, who has required this at your hand, to trample my courts?

  • Isa 56:1
    71%

    1Thus says the LORD, Keep judgment, and do justice: for my salvation is near to come, and my righteousness to be revealed.

  • Ezek 18:5
    70%

    5But if a man is just and does what is lawful and right,

  • Lam 3:35-36
    2 verses
    70%

    35To turn aside the right of a man before the face of the Most High,

    36To subvert a man in his cause, the Lord does not approve.

  • Ps 51:19
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    19Then you shall be pleased with the sacrifices of righteousness, with burnt offering and whole burnt offering; then they shall offer bulls on your altar.

  • 2 Chr 19:6
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    6And said to the judges, Take heed what you do, for you judge not for man but for the LORD, who is with you in the judgment.

  • Ps 7:8-9
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    8The LORD shall judge the people: judge me, O LORD, according to my righteousness, and according to my integrity that is in me.

    9Oh let the wickedness of the wicked come to an end; but establish the just: for the righteous God tries the hearts and minds.

  • Prov 18:5
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    5It is not good to show partiality to the wicked, to overthrow the righteous in judgment.

  • Jer 7:5
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    5For if you thoroughly amend your ways and your deeds; if you thoroughly execute judgment between a man and his neighbor;

  • Jer 22:3
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    3Thus says the LORD; Execute judgment and righteousness, and deliver the plundered out of the hand of the oppressor: and do no wrong, do no violence to the stranger, the fatherless, nor the widow, neither shed innocent blood in this place.

  • Prov 17:15
    70%

    15He who justifies the wicked, and he who condemns the just, both of them are an abomination to the LORD.

  • Prov 21:4
    70%

    4A proud look, a haughty heart, and the plowing of the wicked are sin.

  • Mic 6:8
    70%

    8He has shown you, O man, what is good; and what does the LORD require of you, but to do justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God?

  • Isa 42:21
    70%

    21The LORD is well pleased for his righteousness' sake; he will magnify the law, and make it honorable.

  • Ps 33:5
    69%

    5He loves righteousness and justice; the earth is full of the goodness of the LORD.

  • Mal 3:4
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    4Then shall the offering of Judah and Jerusalem be pleasant to the LORD, as in the days of old, and as in former years.

  • Prov 16:2
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    2All the ways of a man are pure in his own eyes; but the LORD weighs the spirits.

  • Prov 16:11-12
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    69%

    11A just weight and balance are the LORD's; all the weights in the bag are His work.

    12It is an abomination for kings to commit wickedness, for the throne is established by righteousness.

  • Prov 29:27
    69%

    27An unjust man is an abomination to the just; and he who is upright in the way is an abomination to the wicked.

  • Prov 20:23
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    23Diverse weights are an abomination to the LORD, and a false balance is not good.

  • Lev 19:15
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    15You shall do no unrighteousness in judgment: you shall not respect the person of the poor, nor honor the person of the mighty: but in righteousness you shall judge your neighbor.

  • Deut 16:20
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    20That which is altogether just you shall follow, that you may live, and inherit the land which the LORD your God gives you.

  • Eccl 5:1
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    1Keep your foot when you go to the house of God, and be more ready to hear than to offer the sacrifice of fools, for they do not know that they do evil.

  • Ps 103:6
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    6The LORD executes righteousness and judgment for all that are oppressed.

  • Jer 3:11
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    11And the LORD said to me, Backsliding Israel has justified herself more than treacherous Judah.

  • Mal 2:17
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    17You have wearied the LORD with your words. Yet you say, How have we wearied him? When you say, Everyone that does evil is good in the sight of the LORD, and he delights in them; or, Where is the God of justice?

  • Eccl 3:16
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    16Moreover I saw under the sun the place of judgment, that wickedness was there; and the place of righteousness, that iniquity was there.