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Proverbs 21:3
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Proverbs 21:3
3To do justice and judgment is more acceptable to the Lord than sacrifice.
3*To doe iustice and iudgement, is more acceptable to the LORD, then sacrifice.
- 1.Sam.15.22. isa.1.11. hose.6.6. mich. 6.7. chap. 15.8.
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Proverbs 21:3
The virtue which consists in giving to every one what is his due; practical conformity to the laws and to principles of rectitude in the dealings of men with each other; honesty; integrity in commerce or mutual intercourse.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 · KJV usage
A greater amount, number, or degree; in a greater degree.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage
APPROVED COMBINED MEANING
acceptable
That may be received with pleasure; Agreeable or pleasing in person.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828
LORD: The name of God the Father in English, from the Hebrew Tetragrammaton YHWH, also rendered GOD and JEHOVAH. Lord: A title applied to God and Christ as ruler and master, the one to whom worship and obedience are due. lord: A male master, owner, ruler, or superior addressed or described as one having authority.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage · Strong 1890 · Webster 1828
An offering.
Meaning drawn from: Cawdrey 1604
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Open the full verse study22And 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.
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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 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 study8The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination to the Lord: but the prayer of the upright is his delight.
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Open the full verse study33And to love him with all the heart, and with all the understanding, and with all the soul, and with all the strength, and to love his neighbour as himself, is more than all whole burnt offerings and sacrifices.
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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 study21¶ Thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel; Put your burnt offerings unto your sacrifices, and eat flesh.
22For I spake not unto your fathers, nor commanded them in the day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt, concerning burnt offerings or sacrifices:
23But this thing commanded I them, saying, Obey my voice, and I will be your God, and ye shall be my people: and walk ye in all the ways that I have commanded you, that it may be well unto you.
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Open the full verse study8I will not reprove thee for thy sacrifices or thy burnt offerings, to have been continually before me.
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