Hosea 6:6
For I desired mercy, and not sacrifice: and the knowledge of God more than burnt-offerings.
Webster Bible
In The King James Version
For I desired mercy, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings.
In Context
7But they like men have transgressed the covenant: there have they dealt treacherously against me.
Cross References
1 Samuel 15:22And Samuel said, Hath 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 hearken than the fat of rams.
Psalms 50:8I will not reprove thee for thy sacrifices or thy burnt-offerings, to have been continually before me.
Ecclesiastes 5:1Keep thy foot when thou goest to the house of God, and be more ready to hear, than to give the sacrifice of fools: for they consider not that they do evil.
Isaiah 58:6Is not this the fast that I have chosen? to loose the bands of wickedness, to undo the heavy burdens, and to let the oppressed go free, and that ye break every yoke?
Jeremiah 22:16He judged the cause of the poor and needy; then it was well with him : was not this to know me? saith the LORD.
Hosea 2:20I will even betroth thee to me in faithfulness: and thou shalt know the LORD.
Matthew Henry on Hosea 6:5-11
Promises and Expostulations; The Crimes of the People. ( b. c. 758.) 4 O Ephraim, what shall I do unto thee? O Judah, what shall I do unto thee? for your goodness is as a morning cloud, and as the early dew it goeth away. 5 Therefore have I hewed them by the prophets; I have slain them by the words of my mouth: and thy judgments are as the light that goeth forth. 6 For I desired mercy, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings. 7 But they like men have transgressed the covenant: there… Read the whole commentary →