Obedience Is Better Than Sacrifice Bible Verses: To Obey Is Better Than Sacrifice. See also: I Desire Mercy, Not Sacrifice.
To Obey Is Better Than Sacrifice!
1 Samuel 15:22, ESV And Samuel said, “Has 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 listen than the fat of rams.
Yes, God Is More Concerned About Our Obedience Than He Is About Sacrifice.
More Important Bible Verse Reminders:
1 Samuel 15:22, NLT What is more pleasing to the LORD: your burnt offerings and sacrifices or your obedience to his voice? Listen! Obedience is better than sacrifice, and submission is better than offering the fat of rams.
Proverbs 21:3, ESV To do righteousness and justice is more acceptable to the LORD than sacrifice.
Proverbs 21:3, NLT The LORD is more pleased when we do what is right and just than when we offer him sacrifices.
Psalm 51:16, NLT You do not desire a sacrifice, or I would offer one. You do not want a burnt offering.
Psalm 51:17, NLT The sacrifice you desire is a broken spirit. You will not reject a broken and repentant heart, O God.
Mark 12:33, NIV To love him with all your heart, with all your understanding and with all your strength, and to love your neighbor as yourself is more important than all burnt offerings and sacrifices.
Matthew 18:11, HCSB For the Son of Man has come to save the lost.
Ecclesiastes 5:1, ESV Guard your steps when you go to the house of God. To draw near to listen is better than to offer the sacrifice of fools, for they do not know that they are doing evil. Getting to know God
Isaiah 1:11, NIV “The multitude of your sacrifices – what are they to me?” says the LORD. “I have more than enough of burnt offerings, of rams and the fat of fattened animals; I have no pleasure in the blood of bulls and lambs and goats.
1 Samuel 15:22, NLT What is more pleasing to the LORD: your burnt offerings and sacrifices or your obedience to his voice? Listen! Obedience is better than sacrifice, and submission is better than offering the fat of rams.
Hosea 6:6, NLT I want you to show love, not offer sacrifices. I want you to know me more than I want burnt offerings.
Hosea 6:6, NIV For I desire mercy, not sacrifice, and acknowledgment of God rather than burnt offerings.
Jeremiah 7:23, NLT This is what I told them: ‘Obey me, and I will be your God, and you will be my people. Do everything as I say, and all will be well!’
1 Timothy 1:17, NIV Now to the King eternal, immortal, invisible, the only God, be honor and glory for ever and ever. Amen.
See also:
Bible Verses about God’s Sacrifice
Honoring God through Obedience
Listen for God’s voice in everything you do
I Will Praise God Forever.
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