Proverbs 21:3

World English Bible (2000)

To do righteousness and justice is more acceptable to Yahweh than sacrifice.

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Referenced Verses

  • 1 Sam 15:22 : 22 Samuel said, "Has Yahweh as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices, as in obeying the voice of Yahweh? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to listen than the fat of rams.
  • Prov 15:8 : 8 The sacrifice made by the wicked is an abomination to Yahweh, but the prayer of the upright is his delight.
  • Hos 6:6 : 6 For I desire mercy, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings.
  • Mic 6:6-8 : 6 How shall I come before Yahweh, and bow myself before the exalted God? Shall I come before him with burnt offerings, with calves a year old? 7 Will Yahweh be pleased with thousands of rams? With tens of thousands of rivers of oil? Shall I give my firstborn for my disobedience? The fruit of my body for the sin of my soul? 8 He has shown you, O man, what is good. What does Yahweh require of you, but to act justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God?
  • Mark 12:33 : 33 and to love him with all the heart, and with all the understanding, with all the soul, and with all the strength, and to love his neighbor as himself, is more important than all whole burnt offerings and sacrifices."
  • Isa 1:11-17 : 11 "What are the multitude of your sacrifices to me?," says Yahweh. "I have had enough of the burnt offerings of rams, and the fat of fed animals. I don't delight in the blood of bulls, or of lambs, or of male 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; new moons, Sabbaths, and convocations: I can't bear with evil assemblies. 14 My soul hates your New Moons and your appointed feasts. They are a burden to me. I am weary of bearing them. 15 When you spread forth your hands, I will hide my eyes from you. Yes, when you make many prayers, I will not hear. Your hands are full of blood. 16 Wash yourselves, make yourself 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 Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel: Add your burnt offerings to your sacrifices, and eat meat. 22 For I didn't 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, Listen to my voice, and I will be your God, and you shall be my people; and walk in all the way that I command you, that it may be well with you.
  • Ps 50:8 : 8 I don't rebuke you for your sacrifices. Your burnt offerings are continually 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 Yahweh weighs the hearts.

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

  • Prov 21:27
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    27The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination: how much more, when he brings it with a wicked mind!

  • Hos 6:6
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    6For I desire 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 Yahweh, but accurate weights are his delight.

  • Ps 69:31
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    31It will please Yahweh better than an ox, or a bull that has horns and hoofs.

  • Prov 15:8-9
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    8The sacrifice made by the wicked is an abomination to Yahweh, but the prayer of the upright is his delight.

    9The way of the wicked is an abomination to Yahweh, but he loves him who follows after righteousness.

  • Ps 4:5
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    5Offer the sacrifices of righteousness. Put your trust in Yahweh.

  • Prov 21:15
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    15It is joy to the righteous to do justice; but it is a destruction to 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 great revenues with injustice.

  • Mal 1:8
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    8When you offer the blind for sacrifice, isn't that evil? And when you offer the lame and sick, isn't that evil? Present it now to your governor! Will he be pleased with you? Or will he accept your person?" says Yahweh of Armies.

  • Isa 66:3
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    3He who kills an ox is as he who kills a man; he who sacrifices a lamb, as he who breaks a dog's neck; he who offers an offering, [as he who offers] pig's blood; he who burns frankincense, as he who blesses 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 don't delight in sacrifice, or else I would give it. You have no pleasure 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. Wasn't this to know me? says Yahweh.

    17But your eyes and your heart are not but for your covetousness, and for shedding innocent blood, and for oppression, and for violence, to do it.

  • Ps 106:3
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    3Blessed are those who keep justice. Blessed is one who does what is right at all times.

  • Isa 1:11-12
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    11"What are the multitude of your sacrifices to me?," says Yahweh. "I have had enough of the burnt offerings of rams, and the fat of fed animals. I don't delight in the blood of bulls, or of lambs, or of male goats.

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

  • Isa 56:1
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    1Thus says Yahweh, "Keep justice, and do righteousness; for my salvation is near to come, and my righteousness to be revealed.

  • Ezek 18:5
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    5But if a man is just, and does that which is lawful and right,

  • Lam 3:35-36
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    35To turn aside the right of a man before the face of the Most High,

    36To subvert a man in his cause, the Lord doesn't approve.

  • Ps 51:19
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    19Then you will delight in the sacrifices of righteousness, in burnt offerings and in whole burnt offerings. Then they will offer bulls on your altar. For the Chief Musician. A contemplation by David, when Doeg the Edomite came and told Saul, "David has come to Abimelech's house."

  • 2 Chr 19:6
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    6and said to the judges, "Consider what you do: for you don't judge for man, but for Yahweh; and [he is] with you in the judgment.

  • Ps 7:8-9
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    8Yahweh administers judgment to the peoples. Judge me, Yahweh, according to my righteousness, and to my integrity that is in me.

    9Oh let the wickedness of the wicked come to an end, but establish the righteous; their minds and hearts are searched by the righteous God.

  • Prov 18:5
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    5To be partial to the faces of the wicked is not good, nor to deprive the innocent of justice.

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

  • Jer 22:3
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    3Thus says Yahweh: Execute justice and righteousness, and deliver him who is robbed out of the hand of the oppressor: and do no wrong, do no violence, to the foreigner, the fatherless, nor the widow; neither shed innocent blood in this place.

  • Prov 17:15
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    15He who justifies the wicked, and he who condemns the righteous, both of them alike are an abomination to Yahweh.

  • Prov 21:4
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    4A high look, and a proud heart, the lamp of the wicked, is sin.

  • Mic 6:8
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    8He has shown you, O man, what is good. What does Yahweh require of you, but to act justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God?

  • Isa 42:21
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    21It pleased Yahweh, for his righteousness' sake, to magnify the law, and make it honorable.

  • Ps 33:5
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    5He loves righteousness and justice. The earth is full of the loving kindness of Yahweh.

  • Mal 3:4
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    4Then the offering of Judah and Jerusalem will be pleasant to Yahweh, as in the days of old, and as in ancient years.

  • Prov 16:2
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    2All the ways of a man are clean in his own eyes; but Yahweh weighs the motives.

  • Prov 16:11-12
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    11Honest balances and scales are Yahweh's; all the weights in the bag are his work.

    12It is an abomination for kings to do wrong, for the throne is established by righteousness.

  • Prov 29:27
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    27A dishonest man detests the righteous, and the upright in their ways detest the wicked.

  • Prov 20:23
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    23Yahweh detests differing weights, and dishonest scales are not pleasing.

  • Lev 19:15
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    15"'You shall do no injustice in judgment: you shall not be partial to the poor, nor show favoritism to the great; but you shall judge your neighbor in righteousness.

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

  • Eccl 5:1
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    1Guard your steps when you go to God's house; for to draw near to listen is better than to give the sacrifice of fools, for they don't know that they do evil.

  • Ps 103:6
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    6Yahweh executes righteous acts, and justice for all who are oppressed.

  • Jer 3:11
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    11Yahweh said to me, "Backsliding Israel has shown herself more righteous than treacherous Judah.

  • Mal 2:17
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    17You have wearied Yahweh with your words. Yet you say, 'How have we wearied him?' In that you say, 'Everyone who does evil is good in the sight of Yahweh, 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, in the place of justice, that wickedness was there; and in the place of righteousness, that wickedness was there.