Hosea 6:6

Hosea 6:6
Because my desire is for mercy and not offerings; for the knowledge of God more than for burned offerings.

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Exodus 19:5
If now you will truly give ear to my voice and keep my agreement, you will be my special property out of all the peoples: for all the earth is mine:

Psalms 50:10
For every beast of the woodland is mine, and the cattle on a thousand hills.

Psalms 50:11
I see all the birds of the mountains, and the beasts of the field are mine.

Psalms 50:12
If I had need of food, I would not give you word of it; for the earth is mine and all its wealth.

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Proverbs 19:2
Further, without knowledge desire is not good; and he who is over-quick in acting goes out of the right way.

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Isaiah 43:22
But you have made no prayer to me, O Jacob: and you have given no thought to me, O Israel.

Matthew 15:9
But their worship is to no purpose, while they give as their teaching the rules of men.

Matthew 22:37
And he said to him, Have love for the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind.

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Jeremiah 7:24
But they took no note and did not give ear, but were guided by the thoughts and the pride of their evil hearts, going back and not forward.

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Jeremiah 31:34
And no longer will they be teaching every man his neighbour and every man his brother, saying, Get knowledge of the Lord: for they will all have knowledge of me, from the least of them to the greatest of them, says the Lord: for they will have my forgiveness for their evil-doing, and their sin will go from my memory for ever.

Hosea 2:20
I will take you as my bride in good faith, and you will have knowledge of the Lord.

John 6:27
Let your work not be for the food which comes to an end, but for the food which goes on for eternal life, which the Son of man will give to you, for on him has God the Father put his mark.

John 17:3
And this is eternal life: to have knowledge of you, the only true God, and of him whom you have sent, even Jesus Christ.

1 John 2:3
And by this we may be certain that we have knowledge of him, if we keep his laws.

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Hosea 4:17
Ephraim is joined to false gods; let him be.

Hosea 4:18
Their drink has become bitter; they are completely false; her rulers take pleasure in shame.

Hosea 4:19
They are folded in the skirts of the wind; they will be shamed because of their offerings.

Hosea 5:15
I will go back to my place till they are made waste; in their trouble they will go after me early and will make search for me.

Hosea 6:9
And like a band of thieves waiting for a man, so are the priests watching secretly the way of those going quickly to Shechem, for they are working with an evil design.

Hosea 7:2
And they do not say to themselves that I keep in mind all their sin; now their evil acts come round them on every side; they are before my face.

Hosea 7:3
In their sin they make a king for themselves, and rulers in their deceit.

Hosea 7:4
They are all untrue; they are like a burning oven; the bread-maker does not make up the fire from the time when the paste is mixed till it is leavened.

Hosea 9:15
All their evil-doing is in Gilgal; there I had hate for them; because of their evil-doing I will send them out of my house; they will no longer be dear to me; all their rulers are uncontrolled.

Hosea 13:16
Samaria will be made waste, for she has gone against her God: they will be cut down by the sword, their little children will be broken on the rocks, their women who are with child will be cut open.

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Hosea 8:11
Because Ephraim has been increasing altars for sin, altars have become a cause of sin to him.

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Hosea 8:12
Though I put my law in writing for him in ten thousand rules, they are to him as a strange thing.

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Zechariah 7:9
This is what the Lord of armies has said: Let your judging be upright and done in good faith, let every man have mercy and pity for his brother:

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Psalms 40:7
Then I said, See, I come; it is recorded of me in the roll of the book,

Proverbs 16:6
By mercy and good faith evil-doing is taken away: and by the fear of the Lord men are turned away from evil.

Hosea 14:2
Take with you words, and come back to the Lord; say to him, Let there be forgiveness for all wrongdoing, so that we may take what is good, and give in payment the fruit of our lips.

Matthew 5:24
While your offering is still before the altar, first go and make peace with your brother, then come and make your offering.

Ephesians 5:2
And be living in love, even as Christ had love for you, and gave himself up for us, an offering to God for a perfume of a sweet smell.

Hebrews 10:8
After saying, You had no desire for offerings, for burned offerings or offerings for sin (which are made by the law) and you had no pleasure in them,

Hebrews 13:16
But go on doing good and giving to others, because God is well-pleased with such offerings.

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Mark 2:17
And Jesus, hearing it, said to them, Those who are well have no need of a medical man, but those who are ill: I have come not to get the upright but sinners.

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