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Matthew 12:7
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Matthew 12:7
7But if ye had known what this meaneth, I will have mercy, and not sacrifice, ye would not have condemned the guiltless.
7But if yee had knowen what this meaneth, *I will haue mercy, and not sacrifice, yee would not haue condemned the guiltlesse.
- Osee 6.7. chap. 9.13.
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DEFINED WORDS
Matthew 12:7
However; introducing a contrast with what precedes.
Meaning drawn from: Skeat 1893 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Recognized, understood, perceived, acknowledged, or made evident.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
Compassion or pity shown to the distressed or guilty; kindness that withholds deserved harm.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription)
An offering.
Meaning drawn from: Cawdrey 1604
Judged or declared guilty, wrong, unworthy, or liable to punishment.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828
Free from guilt or blame; innocent of the charge in view.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828
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Open the full verse study6For I desired mercy, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings.
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Open the full verse study13But go ye and learn what that meaneth, I will have mercy, and not sacrifice: for I am not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.
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Open the full verse study6¶ Wherewith shall I come before the Lord, and bow myself before the high God? shall I come before him with burnt offerings, with calves of a year old?
7Will the Lord be pleased with thousands of rams, or 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?
8He hath shewed thee, O man, what is good; and what doth the Lord require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God?
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Open the full verse study11To what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices unto me? saith the Lord: I am full of the burnt offerings of rams, and the fat of fed beasts; and I delight not in the blood of bullocks, or of lambs, or of he goats.
12When ye come to appear before me, who hath required this at your hand, to tread my courts?
13Bring no more vain oblations; incense is an abomination unto me; the new moons and sabbaths, the calling of assemblies, I cannot away with; it is iniquity, even the solemn meeting.
14Your new moons and your appointed feasts my soul hateth: they are a trouble unto me; I am weary to bear them.
15And when ye spread forth your hands, I will hide mine eyes from you: yea, when ye make many prayers, I will not hear: your hands are full of blood.
16¶ Wash you, make you clean; put away the evil of your doings from before mine eyes; cease to do evil;
17Learn to do well; seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow.
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Open the full verse study15He that justifieth the wicked, and he that condemneth the just, even they both are abomination to the Lord.
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Open the full verse study27For they that dwell at Jerusalem, and their rulers, because they knew him not, nor yet the voices of the prophets which are read every sabbath day, they have fulfilled them in condemning him.
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Open the full verse study29Jesus answered and said unto them, Ye do err, not knowing the scriptures, nor the power of God.
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Open the full verse study6Ye have condemned and killed the just; and he doth not resist you.
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Open the full verse study31For he shall stand at the right hand of the poor, to save him from those that condemn his soul.
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Open the full verse study21They gather themselves together against the soul of the righteous, and condemn the innocent blood.
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Open the full verse study3Also against his three friends was his wrath kindled, because they had found no answer, and yet had condemned Job.
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