King James Version with Apocrypha
"For I desired mercy, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings."
— Hosea 6:6, King James Version with Apocrypha
“For I desired mercy, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings.”
“For I desire goodness, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more than burnt-offerings. ”
“For I desire mercy, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings.”
“For I delight in faithfulness, not simply in sacrifice; I delight in acknowledging God, not simply in whole burnt offerings.”
“For I desired mercy, and not sacrifice: and the knowledge of God more than holocausts.”
“Because my desire is for mercy and not offerings; for the knowledge of God more than for burned offerings.”
Then shall we know, if we follow on to know the Lord: his going forth is prepared as the morning; and he shall come unto us as the rain, as the latter and former rain unto the earth.
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.
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.
For I desired mercy, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings.
But they like men have transgressed the covenant: there have they dealt treacherously against me.
Gilead is a city of them that work iniquity, and is polluted with blood.
And as troops of robbers wait for a man, so the company of priests murder in the way by consent: for they commit lewdness.