Jeremiah 9:24

For I desire mercy, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings.

Don’t you be afraid, for I am with you. Don’t be dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you. Yes, I will help you. Yes, I will uphold you with the right hand of my righteousness.

But you go and learn what this means: ‘I desire mercy, and not sacrifice,’ for I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.”

Jesus came to them and spoke to them, saying, “All authority has been given to me in heaven and on earth.

To do righteousness and justice is more acceptable to Yahweh than sacrifice.

and to love him with all the heart, and with all the understanding, with all the soul, and with all the strength, and to love his neighbor as himself, is more important than all whole burnt offerings and sacrifices.”

Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father, except through me.

even as the Father knows me, and I know the Father. I lay down my life for the sheep.

Whoever transgresses and doesn’t remain in the teaching of Christ, doesn’t have God. He who remains in the teaching has both the Father and the Son.

Israel will be saved by Yahweh with an everlasting salvation. You will not be disappointed nor confounded to ages everlasting.

But we all, with unveiled face seeing the glory of the Lord as in a mirror, are transformed into the same image from glory to glory, even as from the Lord, the Spirit.

But if you had known what this means, ‘I desire mercy, and not sacrifice,’ you wouldn’t have condemned the guiltless.

I have been crucified with Christ, and it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me. That life which I now live in the flesh, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself up for me.

Whoever denies the Son doesn’t have the Father. He who confesses the Son has the Father also.

The Father loves the Son, and has given all things into his hand.

Guard your steps when you go to God’s house; for to draw near to listen is better than to give the sacrifice of fools, for they don’t know that they do evil.

For, behold, darkness will cover the earth, and thick darkness the peoples; but Yahweh will arise on you, and his glory shall be seen on you.

“Repent therefore, and turn again, that your sins may be blotted out, so that there may come times of refreshing from the presence of the Lord,

I, even I, am he who blots out your transgressions for my own sake; and I will not remember your sins.

Not that anyone has seen the Father, except he who is from God. He has seen the Father.

No one has seen God at any time. The one and only Son, who is in the bosom of the Father, has declared him.

I know him, because I am from him, and he sent me.”

Now therefore amend your ways and your doings, and obey Yahweh your God’s voice; then Yahweh will relent from the evil that he has pronounced against you.

“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you tithe mint, dill, and cumin, and have left undone the weightier matters of the law: justice, mercy, and faith. But you ought to have done these, and not to have left the other undone.

I have blotted out, as a thick cloud, your transgressions, and, as a cloud, your sins. Return to me, for I have redeemed you.

But the hour comes, and now is, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for the Father seeks such to be his worshipers.

Jesus, knowing that the Father had given all things into his hands, and that he came from God, and was going to God,

in whom the god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelieving, that the light of the Good News of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, should not dawn on them.

wiping out the handwriting in ordinances which was against us. He has taken it out of the way, nailing it to the cross.

who is at the right hand of God, having gone into heaven, angels and authorities and powers being made subject to him.

We have the more sure word of prophecy; and you do well that you heed it, as to a lamp shining in a dark place, until the day dawns, and the morning star arises in your hearts:

Hide your face from my sins, and blot out all of my iniquities.

He remembered for them his covenant, and repented according to the multitude of his loving kindnesses.

I revealed your name to the people whom you have given me out of the world. They were yours, and you have given them to me. They have kept your word.

As many as walk by this rule, peace and mercy be on them, and on God’s Israel.

Now, Israel, what does Yahweh your God require of you, but to fear Yahweh your God, to walk in all his ways, to love him, and to serve Yahweh your God with all your heart and with all your soul,

You, Solomon my son, know the God of your father, and serve him with a perfect heart and with a willing mind; for Yahweh searches all hearts, and understands all the imaginations of the thoughts. If you seek him, he will be found by you; but if you forsake him, he will cast you off forever.

Those who know your name will put their trust in you, for you, Yahweh, have not forsaken those who seek you.

The entrance of your words gives light. It gives understanding to the simple.

For my hand has made all these things, and so all these things came to be,” says Yahweh: “but I will look to this man, even to he who is poor and of a contrite spirit, and who trembles at my word.

Then he opened their minds, that they might understand the Scriptures.

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

Jesus answered him, “If a man loves me, he will keep my word. My Father will love him, and we will come to him, and make our home with him.

but he is a Jew who is one inwardly, and circumcision is that of the heart, in the spirit not in the letter; whose praise is not from men, but from God.

having the eyes of your hearts enlightened, that you may know what is the hope of his calling, and what are the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints,

Put on therefore, as God’s chosen ones, holy and beloved, a heart of compassion, kindness, lowliness, humility, and perseverance;

God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light.

But you, Yahweh, are a shield around me, my glory, and the one who lifts up my head.

Answer me, Yahweh, for your loving kindness is good. According to the multitude of your tender mercies, turn to me.

For a child is born to us. A son is given to us; and the government will be on his shoulders. His name will be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.

so that he who blesses himself in the earth will bless himself in the God of truth; and he who swears in the earth will swear by the God of truth; because the former troubles are forgotten, and because they are hidden from my eyes.

For I earnestly protested to your fathers in the day that I brought them up out of the land of Egypt, even to this day, rising early and protesting, saying, “Obey my voice.”

It will happen, if they will diligently learn the ways of my people, to swear by my name, ‘As Yahweh lives;’ even as they taught my people to swear by Baal, then they will be built up in the middle of my people.

leave your gift there before the altar, and go your way. First be reconciled to your brother, and then come and offer your gift.

For God didn’t send his Son into the world to judge the world, but that the world should be saved through him.

for the Father himself loves you, because you have loved me, and have believed that I came from God.

Righteous Father, the world hasn’t known you, but I knew you; and these knew that you sent me.

knowing this, that our old man was crucified with him, that the body of sin might be done away with, so that we would no longer be in bondage to sin.

For I determined not to know anything among you except Jesus Christ and him crucified.

Finally, all of you be like-minded, compassionate, loving as brothers, tenderhearted, courteous,

My soul shall boast in Yahweh. The humble shall hear of it and be glad.

Who is a God like you, who pardons iniquity, and passes over the disobedience of the remnant of his heritage? He doesn’t retain his anger forever, because he delights in loving kindness.

that, as it is written, “He who boasts, let him boast in the Lord.”

But “he who boasts, let him boast in the Lord.”

He judged the cause of the poor and needy; so it was well, then. Wasn’t this to know me?” says Yahweh.

But far be it from me to boast, except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through which the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world.

In God we have made our boast all day long, we will give thanks to your name forever.

Have mercy on me, God, according to your loving kindness. According to the multitude of your tender mercies, blot out my transgressions.

that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give to you a spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him,

We know that the Son of God has come, and has given us an understanding, that we know him who is true, and we are in him who is true, in his Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God and eternal life.

Now Samuel didn’t yet know Yahweh, neither was Yahweh’s word yet revealed to him.

A man’s steps are established by Yahweh. He delights in his way.

You will winnow them, and the wind will carry them away, and the whirlwind will scatter them. You will rejoice in Yahweh. You will glory in the Holy One of Israel.

“For I, Yahweh, love justice. I hate robbery and iniquity. I will give them their reward in truth and I will make an everlasting covenant with them.

He has shown you, O man, what is good. What does Yahweh require of you, but to act justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God?

This is eternal life, that they should know you, the only true God, and him whom you sent, Jesus Christ.

God spoke to Moses, and said to him, “I am Yahweh.

The Rock: his work is perfect, for all his ways are just. A God of faithfulness who does no wrong, just and right is he.

Samuel said, “Has Yahweh as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices, as in obeying Yahweh’s voice? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to listen than the fat of rams.

For Yahweh loves justice, and doesn’t forsake his saints. They are preserved forever, but the children of the wicked shall be cut off.

“Because he has set his love on me, therefore I will deliver him. I will set him on high, because he has known my name.

The King’s strength also loves justice. You establish equity. You execute justice and righteousness in Jacob.

Whoever is wise will pay attention to these things. They will consider the loving kindnesses of Yahweh.

then you will understand the fear of Yahweh, and find the knowledge of God.

Lying lips are an abomination to Yahweh, but those who do the truth are his delight.

The lofty looks of man will be brought low, the arrogance of men will be bowed down, and Yahweh alone will be exalted in that day.

All the offspring of Israel will be justified in Yahweh, and will rejoice!

and you will swear, ‘As Yahweh lives,’ in truth, in justice, and in righteousness. The nations will bless themselves in him, and they will glory in him.”

Yahweh says: “Execute justice and righteousness, and deliver him who is robbed out of the hand of the oppressor. Do no wrong. Do no violence to the foreigner, the fatherless, or the widow. Don’t shed innocent blood in this place.

You will fall by the sword. I will judge you in the border of Israel. Then you will know that I am Yahweh.

I will even betroth you to me in faithfulness; and you shall know Yahweh.

Their deeds won’t allow them to turn to their God; for the spirit of prostitution is within them, and they don’t know Yahweh.

All things have been delivered to me by my Father. No one knows the Son, except the Father; neither does anyone know the Father, except the Son, and he to whom the Son desires to reveal him.

Turning to the disciples, he said, “All things have been delivered to me by my Father. No one knows who the Son is, except the Father, and who the Father is, except the Son, and he to whomever the Son desires to reveal him.”

seeing it is God who said, “Light will shine out of darkness,” who has shone in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.

For we are the circumcision, who worship God in the Spirit, and rejoice in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in the flesh;

that their hearts may be comforted, they being knit together in love, and gaining all riches of the full assurance of understanding, that they may know the mystery of God, both of the Father and of Christ,

This is an obvious sign of the righteous judgment of God, to the end that you may be counted worthy of God’s Kingdom, for which you also suffer.

Not only so, but we also rejoice in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received the reconciliation.

For judgment is without mercy to him who has shown no mercy. Mercy triumphs over judgment.