17 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.

3 variant units attested by manuscript witnesses and modern critical editions.

2 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

• 1Cor 13:1 — Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.
• 1Sam 15:22 — And Samuel said, Hath 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 hearken than the fat of rams.
• 1Sam 15:22 — And Samuel said, Hath 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 hearken than the fat of rams.
• Amos 5:21 — I hate, I despise your feast days, and I will not smell in your solemn assemblies.
• Deut 6:5 — And thou shalt love the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might.
• Gal 5:14 — For all the law is fulfilled in one word, even in this; Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.
• Heb 10:4 — For it is not possible that the blood of bulls and of goats should take away sins.
• Heb 10:8 — Above when he said, Sacrifice and offering and burnt offerings and offering for sin thou wouldest not, neither hadst pleasure therein; which are offered by the law;
• Heb 10:8 — Above when he said, Sacrifice and offering and burnt offerings and offering for sin thou wouldest not, neither hadst pleasure therein; which are offered by the law;
• Hos 6:6 — For I desired mercy, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings.
• Isa 1:11 — To what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices unto me? saith the LORD: I am full of the burnt offerings of rams, and the fat of fed beasts; and I delight not in the blood of bullocks, or of lamb
• Isa 58:5 — Is it such a fast that I have chosen? a day for a man to afflict his soul? is it to bow down his head as a bulrush, and to spread sackcloth and ashes under him? wilt thou call this a fast, and an acce
• Jer 7:21 — Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Put your burnt offerings unto your sacrifices, and eat flesh.
• Jer 7:22 — For I spake not unto your fathers, nor commanded them in the day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt, concerning burnt offerings or sacrifices:
• Luke 10:27 — And he answering said, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy strength, and with all thy mind; and thy neighbour as thyself.
• Matt 9:13 — But go ye and learn what that meaneth, I will have mercy, and not sacrifice: for I am not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.
• Matt 12:7 — But if ye had known what this meaneth, I will have mercy, and not sacrifice, ye would not have condemned the guiltless.
• Matt 22:37 — Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind.
• Mic 6:6 — Wherewith shall I come before the LORD, and bow myself before the high God? shall I come before him with burnt offerings, with calves of a year old?
• Prov 21:3 — To do justice and judgment is more acceptable to the LORD than sacrifice.
• Prov 21:3 — To do justice and judgment is more acceptable to the LORD than sacrifice.
• Ps 50:8 — I will not reprove thee for thy sacrifices or thy burnt offerings, to have been continually before me.
• Ps 50:23 — Whoso offereth praise glorifieth me: and to him that ordereth his conversation aright will I shew the salvation of God.
• Ps 51:17 — The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit: a broken and a contrite heart, O God, thou wilt not despise.
• Ps 116:1 — I love the LORD, because he hath heard my voice and my supplications.