Hosea 6:6ESV / 20 helpful votes
For I desire steadfast love and not sacrifice, the knowledge of God rather than burnt offerings.
Proverbs 21:3ESV / 16 helpful votes
To do righteousness and justice is more acceptable to the Lord than sacrifice.
Matthew 9:13ESV / 15 helpful votes
Go and learn what this means: ‘I desire mercy, and not sacrifice.’ For I came not to call the righteous, but sinners.”
Micah 6:8ESV / 14 helpful votes
He has told you, O man, what is good; and what does the Lord require of you but to do justice, and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your God?
Matthew 12:7ESV / 12 helpful votes
And if you had known what this means, ‘I desire mercy, and not sacrifice,’ you would not have condemned the guiltless.
1 Samuel 15:22ESV / 12 helpful votes
And Samuel said, “Has the Lord 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.
Psalm 51:17ESV / 9 helpful votes
The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit; a broken and contrite heart, O God, you will not despise.
Micah 6:6-8ESV / 8 helpful votes
“With what shall I come before the Lord, and bow myself before God on high? Shall I come before him with burnt offerings, with calves a year old? Will the Lord be pleased with thousands of rams, with ten thousands of rivers of oil? Shall I give my firstborn for my transgression, the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul?” He has told you, O man, what is good; and what does the Lord require of you but to do justice, and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your God?
Isaiah 1:11ESV / 8 helpful votes
“What to me is the multitude of your sacrifices? says the Lord; I have had enough of burnt offerings of rams and the fat of well-fed beasts; I do not delight in the blood of bulls, or of lambs, or of goats.
Romans 12:1ESV / 7 helpful votes
I appeal to you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship.
Mark 12:33ESV / 7 helpful votes
And to love him with all the heart and with all the understanding and with all the strength, and to love one's neighbor as oneself, is much more than all whole burnt offerings and sacrifices.”
Micah 6:6ESV / 7 helpful votes
“With what shall I come before the Lord, and bow myself before God on high? Shall I come before him with burnt offerings, with calves a year old?
Joel 2:13ESV / 6 helpful votes
And rend your hearts and not your garments.” Return to the Lord your God, for he is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love; and he relents over disaster.
Isaiah 55:7ESV / 6 helpful votes
Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts; let him return to the Lord, that he may have compassion on him, and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.
Proverbs 2:3-5ESV / 6 helpful votes
Yes, if you call out for insight and raise your voice for understanding, if you seek it like silver and search for it as for hidden treasures, then you will understand the fear of the Lord and find the knowledge of God.
Hebrews 13:15-16ESV / 5 helpful votes
Through him then let us continually offer up a sacrifice of praise to God, that is, the fruit of lips that acknowledge his name. Do not neglect to do good and to share what you have, for such sacrifices are pleasing to God.
Romans 11:22ESV / 5 helpful votes
Note then the kindness and the severity of God: severity toward those who have fallen, but God's kindness to you, provided you continue in his kindness. Otherwise you too will be cut off.
Proverbs 28:13ESV / 5 helpful votes
Whoever conceals his transgressions will not prosper, but he who confesses and forsakes them will obtain mercy.
Psalm 103:8ESV / 5 helpful votes
The Lord is merciful and gracious, slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love.
Psalm 51:16ESV / 5 helpful votes
For you will not delight in sacrifice, or I would give it; you will not be pleased with a burnt offering.
Hebrews 13:15ESV / 4 helpful votes
Through him then let us continually offer up a sacrifice of praise to God, that is, the fruit of lips that acknowledge his name.
John 1:29ESV / 4 helpful votes
The next day he saw Jesus coming toward him, and said, “Behold, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world!
Matthew 9:10-13ESV / 4 helpful votes
And as Jesus reclined at table in the house, behold, many tax collectors and sinners came and were reclining with Jesus and his disciples. And when the Pharisees saw this, they said to his disciples, “Why does your teacher eat with tax collectors and sinners?” But when he heard it, he said, “Those who are well have no need of a physician, but those who are sick. Go and learn what this means: ‘I desire mercy, and not sacrifice.’ For I came not to call the righteous, but sinners.”
Hosea 10:12ESV / 4 helpful votes
Sow for yourselves righteousness; reap steadfast love; break up your fallow ground, for it is the time to seek the Lord, that he may come and rain righteousness upon you.
Lamentations 3:26ESV / 4 helpful votes
It is good that one should wait quietly for the salvation of the Lord.
Lamentations 3:25ESV / 4 helpful votes
The Lord is good to those who wait for him, to the soul who seeks him.
Jeremiah 29:13ESV / 4 helpful votes
You will seek me and find me, when you seek me with all your heart.
Jeremiah 6:20ESV / 4 helpful votes
What use to me is frankincense that comes from Sheba, or sweet cane from a distant land? Your burnt offerings are not acceptable, nor your sacrifices pleasing to me.
Isaiah 55:6ESV / 4 helpful votes
“Seek the Lord while he may be found; call upon him while he is near;
Isaiah 55:2ESV / 4 helpful votes
Why do you spend your money for that which is not bread, and your labor for that which does not satisfy? Listen diligently to me, and eat what is good, and delight yourselves in rich food.
Isaiah 55:1ESV / 4 helpful votes
“Come, everyone who thirsts, come to the waters; and he who has no money, come, buy and eat! Come, buy wine and milk without money and without price.
Isaiah 1:11-17ESV / 4 helpful votes
“What to me is the multitude of your sacrifices? says the Lord; I have had enough of burnt offerings of rams and the fat of well-fed beasts; I do not delight in the blood of bulls, or of lambs, or of goats. “When you come to appear before me, who has required of you this trampling of my courts? Bring no more vain offerings; incense is an abomination to me. New moon and Sabbath and the calling of convocations— I cannot endure iniquity and solemn assembly. Your new moons and your appointed feasts my soul hates; they have become a burden to me; I am weary of bearing them. When you spread out your hands, I will hide my eyes from you; even though you make many prayers, I will not listen; your hands are full of blood. ...
Psalm 94:19ESV / 4 helpful votes
When the cares of my heart are many, your consolations cheer my soul.
Psalm 40:8ESV / 4 helpful votes
I delight to do your will, O my God; your law is within my heart.”
Colossians 3:5ESV / 3 helpful votes
Put to death therefore what is earthly in you: sexual immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry.
2 Corinthians 5:17ESV / 3 helpful votes
Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come.
Romans 12:1-2ESV / 3 helpful votes
I appeal to you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship. Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.
Romans 2:6-8ESV / 3 helpful votes
He will render to each one according to his works: to those who by patience in well-doing seek for glory and honor and immortality, he will give eternal life; but for those who are self-seeking and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, there will be wrath and fury.
Acts 20:35ESV / 3 helpful votes
In all things I have shown you that by working hard in this way we must help the weak and remember the words of the Lord Jesus, how he himself said, ‘It is more blessed to give than to receive.’”
Acts 17:11ESV / 3 helpful votes
Now these Jews were more noble than those in Thessalonica; they received the word with all eagerness, examining the Scriptures daily to see if these things were so.
Acts 2:38ESV / 3 helpful votes
And Peter said to them, “Repent and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.
John 16:26ESV / 3 helpful votes
In that day you will ask in my name, and I do not say to you that I will ask the Father on your behalf;
Luke 16:10ESV / 3 helpful votes
“One who is faithful in a very little is also faithful in much, and one who is dishonest in a very little is also dishonest in much.
Luke 10:42ESV / 3 helpful votes
But one thing is necessary. Mary has chosen the good portion, which will not be taken away from her.”
Luke 6:31ESV / 3 helpful votes
And as you wish that others would do to you, do so to them.
Luke 6:21ESV / 3 helpful votes
“Blessed are you who are hungry now, for you shall be satisfied. “Blessed are you who weep now, for you shall laugh.
Matthew 5:28ESV / 3 helpful votes
But I say to you that everyone who looks at a woman with lustful intent has already committed adultery with her in his heart.
Matthew 5:27-28ESV / 3 helpful votes
“You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall not commit adultery.’ But I say to you that everyone who looks at a woman with lustful intent has already committed adultery with her in his heart.
Matthew 5:7ESV / 3 helpful votes
“Blessed are the merciful, for they shall receive mercy.
Matthew 5:6ESV / 3 helpful votes
“Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they shall be satisfied.
Habakkuk 3:2ESV / 3 helpful votes
O Lord, I have heard the report of you, and your work, O Lord, do I fear. In the midst of the years revive it; in the midst of the years make it known; in wrath remember mercy.
Micah 7:18ESV / 3 helpful votes
Who is a God like you, pardoning iniquity and passing over transgression for the remnant of his inheritance? He does not retain his anger forever, because he delights in steadfast love.
Amos 5:21ESV / 3 helpful votes
“I hate, I despise your feasts, and I take no delight in your solemn assemblies.
Jeremiah 17:9ESV / 3 helpful votes
The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately sick; who can understand it?
Isaiah 26:9ESV / 3 helpful votes
My soul yearns for you in the night; my spirit within me earnestly seeks you. For when your judgments are in the earth, the inhabitants of the world learn righteousness.
Isaiah 26:8ESV / 3 helpful votes
In the path of your judgments, O Lord, we wait for you; your name and remembrance are the desire of our soul.
Proverbs 11:1ESV / 3 helpful votes
A false balance is an abomination to the Lord, but a just weight is his delight.
Proverbs 8:34ESV / 3 helpful votes
Blessed is the one who listens to me, watching daily at my gates, waiting beside my doors.
Proverbs 8:17ESV / 3 helpful votes
I love those who love me, and those who seek me diligently find me.
Psalm 123:2ESV / 3 helpful votes
Behold, as the eyes of servants look to the hand of their master, as the eyes of a maidservant to the hand of her mistress, so our eyes look to the Lord our God, till he has mercy upon us.
Psalm 123:1ESV / 3 helpful votes
A Song of Ascents. To you I lift up my eyes, O you who are enthroned in the heavens!
Psalm 119:117ESV / 3 helpful votes
Hold me up, that I may be safe and have regard for your statutes continually!
Psalm 119:116ESV / 3 helpful votes
Uphold me according to your promise, that I may live, and let me not be put to shame in my hope!
Psalm 119:88ESV / 3 helpful votes
In your steadfast love give me life, that I may keep the testimonies of your mouth.
Psalm 119:77ESV / 3 helpful votes
Let your mercy come to me, that I may live; for your law is my delight.
Psalm 119:40ESV / 3 helpful votes
Behold, I long for your precepts; in your righteousness give me life!
Psalm 119:20ESV / 3 helpful votes
My soul is consumed with longing for your rules at all times.
Psalm 119:10ESV / 3 helpful votes
With my whole heart I seek you; let me not wander from your commandments!
Psalm 119:2ESV / 3 helpful votes
Blessed are those who keep his testimonies, who seek him with their whole heart,
Psalm 118:17ESV / 3 helpful votes
I shall not die, but I shall live, and recount the deeds of the Lord.
Psalm 105:4ESV / 3 helpful votes
Seek the Lord and his strength; seek his presence continually!
Psalm 86:16ESV / 3 helpful votes
Turn to me and be gracious to me; give your strength to your servant, and save the son of your maidservant.
Psalm 86:12ESV / 3 helpful votes
I give thanks to you, O Lord my God, with my whole heart, and I will glorify your name forever.
Psalm 86:11ESV / 3 helpful votes
Teach me your way, O Lord, that I may walk in your truth; unite my heart to fear your name.
Psalm 84:2ESV / 3 helpful votes
My soul longs, yes, faints for the courts of the Lord; my heart and flesh sing for joy to the living God.
Psalm 81:10ESV / 3 helpful votes
I am the Lord your God, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt. Open your mouth wide, and I will fill it.
Psalm 69:32ESV / 3 helpful votes
When the humble see it they will be glad; you who seek God, let your hearts revive.
Psalm 63:8ESV / 3 helpful votes
My soul clings to you; your right hand upholds me.
Psalm 63:1ESV / 3 helpful votes
A Psalm of David, when he was in the wilderness of Judah. O God, you are my God; earnestly I seek you; my soul thirsts for you; my flesh faints for you, as in a dry and weary land where there is no water.
Psalm 62:1ESV / 3 helpful votes
To the choirmaster: according to Jeduthun. A Psalm of David. For God alone my soul waits in silence; from him comes my salvation.
Psalm 50:14ESV / 3 helpful votes
Offer to God a sacrifice of thanksgiving, and perform your vows to the Most High,
Psalm 42:1-11ESV / 3 helpful votes
To the choirmaster. A Maskil of the Sons of Korah. As a deer pants for flowing streams, so pants my soul for you, O God. My soul thirsts for God, for the living God. When shall I come and appear before God? My tears have been my food day and night, while they say to me all the day long, “Where is your God?” These things I remember, as I pour out my soul: how I would go with the throng and lead them in procession to the house of God with glad shouts and songs of praise, a multitude keeping festival. Why are you cast down, O my soul, and why are you in turmoil within me? Hope in God; for I shall again praise him, my salvation ...
James 1:1ESV / 2 helpful votes
James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, To the twelve tribes in the Dispersion: Greetings.
Philippians 3:12-14ESV / 2 helpful votes
Not that I have already obtained this or am already perfect, but I press on to make it my own, because Christ Jesus has made me his own. Brothers, I do not consider that I have made it my own. But one thing I do: forgetting what lies behind and straining forward to what lies ahead, I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus.
1 Corinthians 10:13ESV / 2 helpful votes
No temptation has overtaken you that is not common to man. God is faithful, and he will not let you be tempted beyond your ability, but with the temptation he will also provide the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it.
John 12:21ESV / 2 helpful votes
So these came to Philip, who was from Bethsaida in Galilee, and asked him, “Sir, we wish to see Jesus.”
John 12:20ESV / 2 helpful votes
Now among those who went up to worship at the feast were some Greeks.
John 3:16-17ESV / 2 helpful votes
“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.
Jonah 3:4ESV / 2 helpful votes
Jonah began to go into the city, going a day's journey. And he called out, “Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown!”
Hosea 4:1ESV / 2 helpful votes
Hear the word of the Lord, O children of Israel, for the Lord has a controversy with the inhabitants of the land. There is no faithfulness or steadfast love, and no knowledge of God in the land;
Lamentations 3:41ESV / 2 helpful votes
Let us lift up our hearts and hands to God in heaven:
Jeremiah 32:35ESV / 2 helpful votes
They built the high places of Baal in the Valley of the Son of Hinnom, to offer up their sons and daughters to Molech, though I did not command them, nor did it enter into my mind, that they should do this abomination, to cause Judah to sin.
Isaiah 40:31ESV / 2 helpful votes
But they who wait for the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings like eagles; they shall run and not be weary; they shall walk and not faint.
Isaiah 8:19ESV / 2 helpful votes
And when they say to you, “Inquire of the mediums and the necromancers who chirp and mutter,” should not a people inquire of their God? Should they inquire of the dead on behalf of the living?
Isaiah 8:17ESV / 2 helpful votes
I will wait for the Lord, who is hiding his face from the house of Jacob, and I will hope in him.
Psalm 119:122ESV / 2 helpful votes
Give your servant a pledge of good; let not the insolent oppress me.
Psalm 70:4ESV / 2 helpful votes
May all who seek you rejoice and be glad in you! May those who love your salvation say evermore, “God is great!”
Psalm 69:3ESV / 2 helpful votes
I am weary with my crying out; my throat is parched. My eyes grow dim with waiting for my God.
Psalm 68:28ESV / 2 helpful votes
Summon your power, O God, the power, O God, by which you have worked for us.
Psalm 51:1-17ESV / 2 helpful votes
To the choirmaster. A Psalm of David, when Nathan the prophet went to him, after he had gone in to Bathsheba. Have mercy on me, O God, according to your steadfast love; according to your abundant mercy blot out my transgressions. Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin! For I know my transgressions, and my sin is ever before me. Against you, you only, have I sinned and done what is evil in your sight, so that you may be justified in your words and blameless in your judgment. Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity, and in sin did my mother conceive me. ...
