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Proverbs 21:3 NIV
Proverbs 21:3 NIV
To do what is right and just
    is more acceptable to the Lord than sacrifice.

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1 Samuel 15:22 niv
But Samuel replied: “Does the Lord delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices as much as in obeying the Lord? To obey is better than sacrifice, and to heed is better than the fat of rams.

Hosea 6:6 niv
For I desire mercy, not sacrifice, and acknowledgment of God rather than burnt offerings.

Micah 6:6-8 niv
With what shall I come before the Lord and bow down before the exalted God? Shall I come before him with burnt offerings, with calves a year old? Will the Lord be pleased with thousands of rams, with ten thousand rivers of olive oil? Shall I offer my firstborn for my transgression, the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul? He has shown you, O mortal, what is good. And what does the Lord require of you? To act justly and to love mercy and to walk humbly with your God.

Proverbs 15:8 niv
The Lord detests the sacrifice of the wicked, but the prayer of the upright pleases him.

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