Proverbs 21:3

In 11 translations

BSB

To do righteousness and justice is more desirable to the LORD than sacrifice.

KJV

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

WEB

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

ASV

To do righteousness and justice Is more acceptable to Jehovah than sacrifice.

LSV

To do righteousness and judgment, || Is chosen of YHWH rather than sacrifice.

YLT

To do righteousness and judgment, Is chosen of Jehovah rather than sacrifice.

DBY

To exercise justice and judgment is more acceptable to Jehovah than sacrifice.

DRC

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

GNV

To doe iustice and iudgement is more acceptable to the Lord then sacrifice.

JPS

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

LXXE

To do justly and to speak truth, are more pleasing to God than the blood of sacrifices.

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Original-language editions

WLC

עֲ֭שֹׂה צְדָקָ֣ה וּמִשְׁפָּ֑ט נִבְחָ֖ר לַיהוָ֣ה מִזָּֽבַח׃

LXX-Br

Ποιεῖν δίκαια καὶ ἀληθεύειν, ἀρεστὰ παρὰ Θεῷ μᾶλλον ἢ θυσιῶν αἷμα.

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• 1 Samuel 15:22But Samuel declared: “Does the LORD delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices as much as in obedience to His voice? Behold, obedience is better than sacrifice, and attentiveness is better than the fat of rams.
• Hosea 6:6For I desire mercy, not sacrifice, and the knowledge of God rather than burnt offerings.
• Micah 6:6–8With what shall I come before the LORD when I bow before the God on high? Should I come to Him with burnt offerings, with year-old calves? Would the LORD be pleased with thousands of rams, with ten thousand rivers of…
• Proverbs 15:8The sacrifice of the wicked is detestable to the LORD, but the prayer of the upright is His delight.
• Mark 12:33and to love Him with all your heart and with all your understanding and with all your strength, and to love your neighbor as yourself, which is more important than all burnt offerings and sacrifices.”
• Jeremiah 7:21–23This is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: Add your burnt offerings to your other sacrifices and eat the meat yourselves! For when I brought your fathers out of the land of Egypt, I did not merely command…
• Isaiah 1:11–17“What good to Me is your multitude of sacrifices?” says the LORD. “I am full from the burnt offerings of rams and the fat of well-fed cattle; I take no delight in the blood of bulls and lambs and goats. When you come…
• Psalms 50:8I do not rebuke you for your sacrifices, and your burnt offerings are ever before Me.

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