Hosea 6:6

Hosea 6:6
For I desire mercy, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings.

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Exodus 19:5
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;

Psalms 50:10
For every animal of the forest is mine, and the livestock on a thousand hills.

Psalms 50:11
I know all the birds of the mountains. The wild animals of the field are mine.

Psalms 50:12
If I were hungry, I would not tell you, for the world is mine, and all that is in it.

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Proverbs 19:2
It isn’t good to have zeal without knowledge, nor being hasty with one’s feet and missing the way.

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Isaiah 43:22
Yet you have not called on me, Jacob; but you have been weary of me, Israel.

Matthew 15:9
And they worship me in vain, teaching as doctrine rules made by men.’ ”

Matthew 22:37
Jesus said to him, “ ‘You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.’

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Jeremiah 7:24
But they didn’t listen or turn their ear, but walked in their own counsels and in the stubbornness of their evil heart, and went backward, and not forward.

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Jeremiah 31:34
They will no longer each teach his neighbor, and every man teach his brother, saying, ‘Know Yahweh;’ for they will all know me, from their least to their greatest,” says Yahweh, “for I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more.”

Hosea 2:20
I will even betroth you to me in faithfulness; and you shall know Yahweh.

John 6:27
Don’t work for the food which perishes, but for the food which remains to eternal life, which the Son of Man will give to you. For God the Father has sealed him.”

John 17:3
This is eternal life, that they should know you, the only true God, and him whom you sent, Jesus Christ.

1 John 2:3
This is how we know that we know him: if we keep his commandments.

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Hosea 4:17
Ephraim is joined to idols. Leave him alone!

Hosea 4:18
Their drink has become sour. They play the prostitute continually. Her rulers dearly love their shameful way.

Hosea 4:19
The wind has wrapped her up in its wings; and they shall be disappointed because of their sacrifices.

Hosea 5:15
I will go and return to my place, until they acknowledge their offense, and seek my face. In their affliction they will seek me earnestly.”

Hosea 6:9
As gangs of robbers wait to ambush a man, so the company of priests murder on the path toward Shechem, committing shameful crimes.

Hosea 7:2
They don’t consider in their hearts that I remember all their wickedness. Now their own deeds have engulfed them. They are before my face.

Hosea 7:3
They make the king glad with their wickedness, and the princes with their lies.

Hosea 7:4
They are all adulterers. They are burning like an oven that the baker stops stirring, from the kneading of the dough, until it is leavened.

Hosea 9:15
“All their wickedness is in Gilgal; for there I hated them. Because of the wickedness of their deeds, I will drive them out of my house! I will love them no more. All their princes are rebels.

Hosea 13:16
Samaria will bear her guilt, for she has rebelled against her God. They will fall by the sword. Their infants will be dashed in pieces, and their pregnant women will be ripped open.”

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Hosea 8:11
Because Ephraim has multiplied altars for sinning, they became for him altars for sinning.

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Hosea 8:12
I wrote for him the many things of my law, but they were regarded as a strange thing.

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Zechariah 7:9
“Thus has Yahweh of Armies spoken, saying, ‘Execute true judgment, and show kindness and compassion every man to his brother.

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Psalms 40:7
Then I said, “Behold, I have come. It is written about me in the book in the scroll.

Proverbs 16:6
By mercy and truth iniquity is atoned for. By the fear of Yahweh men depart from evil.

Hosea 14:2
Take words with you, and return to Yahweh. Tell him, “Forgive all our sins, and accept that which is good; so we offer bulls as we vowed of our lips.

Matthew 5:24
leave your gift there before the altar, and go your way. First be reconciled to your brother, and then come and offer your gift.

Ephesians 5:2
Walk in love, even as Christ also loved us and gave himself up for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet-smelling fragrance.

Hebrews 10:8
Previously saying, “Sacrifices and offerings and whole burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin you didn’t desire, neither had pleasure in them” (those which are offered according to the law),

Hebrews 13:16
But don’t forget to be doing good and sharing, for with such sacrifices God is well pleased.

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Mark 2:17
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.”

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