Matthew 12:7

For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.

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

When Jesus heard it, he said to them, “Those who are healthy have no need for a physician, but those who are sick. I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.”

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.

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 the Son of Man came to seek and to save that which was lost.”

I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.”

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.

“Repent, for the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand!”

When they heard these things, they held their peace, and glorified God, saying, “Then God has also granted to the Gentiles repentance to life!”

“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,

But woe to you Pharisees! For you tithe mint and rue and every herb, but you bypass justice and God’s love. You ought to have done these, and not to have left the other undone.

The Lord is not slow concerning his promise, as some count slowness; but he is patient with us, not wishing that anyone should perish, but that all should come to repentance.

“What are the multitude of your sacrifices to me?”, says Yahweh. “I have had enough of the burnt offerings of rams and the fat of fed animals. I don’t delight in the blood of bulls, or of lambs, or of male goats.

But he said to them, “Haven’t you read what David did, when he was hungry, and those who were with him;

For as yet they didn’t know the Scripture, that he must rise from the dead.

You shall love Yahweh your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your might.

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.”

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

But about the dead, that they are raised; haven’t you read in the book of Moses, about the Bush, how God spoke to him, saying, ‘I am the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob’?

He said, “Don’t lay your hand on the boy or do anything to him. For now I know that you fear God, since you have not withheld your son, your only son, from me.”

Samuel said to Saul, “You have done foolishly. You have not kept the commandment of Yahweh your God, which he commanded you; for now Yahweh would have established your kingdom on Israel forever.

Yahweh will not leave him in his hand, nor condemn him when he is judged.

For you don’t delight in sacrifice, or else I would give it. You have no pleasure in burnt offering.

Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil; who put darkness for light, and light for darkness; who put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!

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?

Therefore produce fruit worthy of repentance!

“You search the Scriptures, because you think that in them you have eternal life; and these are they which testify about me.

testifying both to Jews and to Greeks repentance toward God, and faith toward our Lord Jesus.

They profess that they know God, but by their deeds they deny him, being abominable, disobedient, and unfit for any good work.

Now therefore, if you will indeed obey my voice, and keep my covenant, then you shall be my own possession from among all peoples; for all the earth is mine;

“Keep far from a false charge, and don’t kill the innocent and righteous; for I will not justify the wicked.

I have set Yahweh always before me. Because he is at my right hand, I shall not be moved.

I don’t rebuke you for your sacrifices. Your burnt offerings are continually before me.

Yahweh is your keeper. Yahweh is your shade on your right hand.

Also to punish the righteous is not good, nor to flog officials for their integrity.

He who says to the wicked, “You are righteous,” peoples will curse him, and nations will abhor him—

who acquit the guilty for a bribe, but deny justice for the innocent!

For I didn’t speak to your fathers or command them in the day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt concerning burnt offerings or sacrifices;

which I commanded your fathers in the day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt, out of the iron furnace,’ saying, ‘Obey my voice, and do them, according to all which I command you; so you shall be my people, and I will be your God;

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

“If therefore you are offering your gift at the altar, and there remember that your brother has anything against you,

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 said to him, “ ‘You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.’

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.”

For David says concerning him, ‘I saw the Lord always before my face, for he is on my right hand, that I should not be moved.

Peter said to them, “Repent, and be baptized, every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.

“Now, brothers, I know that you did this in ignorance, as did also your rulers.

God exalted him with his right hand to be a Prince and a Savior, to give repentance to Israel, and remission of sins.

The saying is faithful and worthy of all acceptance, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, of whom I am chief.

Whoever remains in him doesn’t sin. Whoever sins hasn’t seen him and doesn’t know him.

Then he opens the ears of men, and seals their instruction,

To what purpose does frankincense from Sheba come to me, and the sweet cane from a far country? Your burnt offerings are not acceptable, and your sacrifices are not pleasing to me.”

Will Yahweh be pleased with thousands of rams? With tens of thousands of rivers of oil? Shall I give my firstborn for my disobedience? The fruit of my body for the sin of my soul?

He answered, “Haven’t you read that he who made them from the beginning made them male and female,

Don’t judge according to appearance, but judge righteous judgment.”

But you denied the Holy and Righteous One and asked for a murderer to be granted to you,

Good and upright is Yahweh, therefore he will instruct sinners in the way.

For all the people who came out were circumcised; but all the people who were born in the wilderness along the way as they came out of Egypt had not been circumcised.

Also his wrath was kindled against his three friends, because they had found no answer, and yet had condemned Job.

Sacrifice and offering you didn’t desire. You have opened my ears. You have not required burnt offering and sin offering.

They gather themselves together against the soul of the righteous, and condemn the innocent blood.

For he will stand at the right hand of the needy, to save him from those who judge his soul.

He who justifies the wicked, and he who condemns the righteous, both of them alike are an abomination to Yahweh.

But Jesus answered them, “You are mistaken, not knowing the Scriptures, nor the power of God.

“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.

For those who dwell in Jerusalem, and their rulers, because they didn’t know him, nor the voices of the prophets which are read every Sabbath, fulfilled them by condemning him.

You have condemned and you have murdered the righteous one. He doesn’t resist you.

But concerning the resurrection of the dead, haven’t you read that which was spoken to you by God, saying,