Mark 12:33
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 even more than all burnt offerings and sacrifices.”
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Psalms 50:8I will not reprove you for your sacrifices; 1 your burnt offerings are always before me. 1
Proverbs 21:3To do what is right and just 1 is more acceptable to Yahweh than sacrifice. 1
Isaiah 58:5Is this really the kind of fast that I would want: A day for anybody to humble himself, 1 for him to bow down his head like a reed, and to spread sackcloth and ashes under himself? 1 Do you really call this a fast, a day that pleases Yahweh? 1
Hosea 6:6For I desire faithfulness and not sacrifice, 1 and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings. 1
Micah 6:6What should I bring to Yahweh, 1 as I bow down to the high God? 1 Should I come to him with burnt offerings, 1 with calves a year old? 1
Matthew 12:7If you had known what this meant, 'I desire mercy and not sacrifice,' you would not have condemned the guiltless.
Matthew Henry on Mark 12:29-35
The Hopeful Scribe. 28 And one of the scribes came, and having heard them reasoning together, and perceiving that he had answered them well, asked him, Which is the first commandment of all? 29 And Jesus answered him, The first of all the commandments is, Hear, O Israel; The Lord our God is one Lord: 30 And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and with all thy strength: this is the first commandment. 31 And the second is like, namely this, Thou shalt… Read the whole commentary →