Proverbs 21:3
Good News Translation
Do what is right and fair; that pleases the LORD more than bringing him sacrifices.

New Revised Standard Version
To do righteousness and justice is more acceptable to the LORD than sacrifice.

Contemporary English Version
Doing what is right and fair pleases the LORD more than an offering.

New American Bible
To do what is right and just is more acceptable to the LORD than sacrifice.

Douay-Rheims Bible
To do mercy and judgment, pleaseth the Lord more than victims.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

To do mercy and judgment, pleaseth the Lord more than victims.

Proverbs 15:8 The victims of the wicked are abominable to the Lord: the vows of the just are acceptable.

1 Samuel 15:22 And Samuel said: Doth the Lord desire holocausts and victims, and not rather that the voice of the Lord should be obeyed? For obedience is better than sacrifices: and to hearken rather than to offer the fat or rams.

Psalm 50:8 I will not reprove thee for thy sacrifices: and thy burnt offerings are always in my sight.

Isaiah 1:11-17 To what purpose do you offer me the multitude of your victims, saith the Lord? I am full, I desire not holocausts of rams, and fat of fatlings, and blood of calves, and lambs, and buck goats. . . .

Jeremiah 7:21-23 Thus saith the Lord of hosts the God of Israel: Add your burnt offerings to your sacrifices, and eat ye the flesh. . . .

Hosea 6:6 For I desired mercy, and not sacrifice: and the knowledge of God more than holocausts.

Micah 6:6-8 What shall I offer to the Lord that is worthy? wherewith shall I kneel before the high God? shall I offer holocausts unto him, and calves of a year old? . . .

Mark 12:33 And that he should be loved with the whole heart and with the whole understanding and with the whole soul and with the whole strength. And to love one's neighbour as one's self is a greater thing than all holocausts and sacrifices.

Context
The King's Heart
2Every way of a man seemeth right to himself: but the Lord weigheth the hearts. 3To do mercy and judgment, pleaseth the Lord more than victims.4Haughtiness of the eyes is the enlarging of the heart: the lamp of the wicked is sin.…
Cross References
1 Samuel 15:22
And Samuel said: Doth the Lord desire holocausts and victims, and not rather that the voice of the Lord should be obeyed? For obedience is better than sacrifices: and to hearken rather than to offer the fat or rams.

Proverbs 15:8
The victims of the wicked are abominable to the Lord: the vows of the just are acceptable.

Isaiah 1:11
To what purpose do you offer me the multitude of your victims, saith the Lord? I am full, I desire not holocausts of rams, and fat of fatlings, and blood of calves, and lambs, and buck goats.

Isaiah 1:16
Wash yourselves, be clean, take away the evil of your devices from my eyes, cease to do perversely,

Hosea 6:6
For I desired mercy, and not sacrifice: and the knowledge of God more than holocausts.

Micah 6:7
May the Lord be appeased with thousands of rams, or with many thousands of fat he goats? shall I give my firstborn for my wickedness, the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul?

Micah 6:8
I will shew thee, O man, what is good, and what the Lord requireth of thee: Verily to do judgment, and to love mercy, and to walk solicitous with thy God.

Proverbs 21:2
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