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Proverbs 21:3

To do righteousness and justice Is more acceptable to the LORD than sacrifice [for wrongs repeatedly committed].

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - God Continued...;   Integrity;   Offerings;   Righteousness;   Thompson Chain Reference - Justice;   Justice-Injustice;   Social Duties;   The Topic Concordance - Judgment;   Justice;   Sacrifice;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Sacrifices;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Sacrifice;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Justice;   Legalism;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Pardon;   Sacrifice;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Proverbs, Book of;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Acceptance;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Accept;   Alms;   Wisdom;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Atonement;   Eleazar Ii. (Lazar);   Sacrifice;   Sheįø³alim;  

Devotionals:

- Daily Light on the Daily Path - Devotion for December 9;  

Parallel Translations

New Living Translation
The Lord is more pleased when we do what is right and just than when we offer him sacrifices.
Update Bible Version
To do righteousness and justice Is more acceptable to Yahweh than sacrifice.
New Century Version
Doing what is right and fair is more important to the Lord than sacrifices.
New English Translation
To do righteousness and justice is more acceptable to the Lord than sacrifice.
Webster's Bible Translation
To do justice and judgment [is] more acceptable to the LORD than sacrifice.
World English Bible
To do righteousness and justice Is more acceptable to Yahweh than sacrifice.
English Standard Version
To do righteousness and justice is more acceptable to the Lord than sacrifice.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
To do merci and doom plesith more the Lord, than sacrifices doen.
English Revised Version
To do justice and judgment is more acceptable to the LORD than sacrifice.
Berean Standard Bible
To do righteousness and justice is more desirable to the LORD than sacrifice.
Contemporary English Version
Doing what is right and fair pleases the Lord more than an offering.
American Standard Version
To do righteousness and justice Is more acceptable to Jehovah than sacrifice.
Bible in Basic English
To do what is right and true is more pleasing to the Lord than an offering.
Complete Jewish Bible
To do what is right and just is more pleasing to Adonai than sacrifice.
Darby Translation
To exercise justice and judgment is more acceptable to Jehovah than sacrifice.
Easy-to-Read Version
Do what is right and fair. The Lord loves that more than sacrifices.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
To do righteousness and justice is more acceptable to the LORD than sacrifice.
King James Version (1611)
To doe iustice and iudgement, is more acceptable to the Lord, then sacrifice.
New Life Bible
To do what is right and good and fair is more pleasing to the Lord than gifts given on the altar in worship.
New Revised Standard
To do righteousness and justice is more acceptable to the Lord than sacrifice.
Geneva Bible (1587)
To doe iustice and iudgement is more acceptable to the Lord then sacrifice.
George Lamsa Translation
He who does righteousness and justice is more acceptable to the LORD than he who offers a sacrifice.
Good News Translation
Do what is right and fair; that pleases the Lord more than bringing him sacrifices.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
To do righteousness and justice, is more choice to Yahweh than sacrifice.
Douay-Rheims Bible
To do mercy and judgment, pleaseth the Lord more than victims.
Revised Standard Version
To do righteousness and justice is more acceptable to the LORD than sacrifice.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
To do righteousnes and iudgement, is more acceptable to the Lorde then sacrifice.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
To do justly and to speak truth, are more pleasing to God than the blood of sacrifices.
Christian Standard Bible®
Doing what is righteous and justis more acceptable to the Lord than sacrifice.
Hebrew Names Version
To do righteousness and justice Is more acceptable to the LORD than sacrifice.
King James Version
To do justice and judgment is more acceptable to the Lord than sacrifice.
Lexham English Bible
Doing righteousness and justice is more acceptable to Yahweh than sacrifice.
Literal Translation
For Jehovah, to do righteousness and justice is to be chosen more than sacrifice.
Young's Literal Translation
To do righteousness and judgment, Is chosen of Jehovah rather than sacrifice.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
To do rightuousnesse and iudgmet is more acceptable to the LORDE the sacrifice.
THE MESSAGE
Clean living before God and justice with our neighbors mean far more to God than religious performance.
New American Standard Bible
To do righteousness and justice Is preferred by the LORD more than sacrifice.
New King James Version
To do righteousness and justice Is more acceptable to the LORD than sacrifice.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
To do righteousness and justice Is desired by the LORD more than sacrifice.
Legacy Standard Bible
To do righteousness and justiceIs chosen by Yahweh over sacrifice.

Contextual Overview

3To do righteousness and justice Is more acceptable to the LORD than sacrifice [for wrongs repeatedly committed].

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Proverbs 15:8, 1 Samuel 15:22, Psalms 50:8, Isaiah 1:11-17, Jeremiah 7:21-23, Hosea 6:6, Micah 6:6-8, Mark 12:33

Reciprocal: Exodus 32:29 - Moses Judges 20:8 - We will not 1 Samuel 13:9 - he offered 1 Samuel 20:24 - the king 2 Chronicles 9:8 - to do judgment Jeremiah 22:15 - and do Ezekiel 18:5 - that Ezekiel 45:10 - General Hosea 12:6 - keep Amos 5:24 - let Micah 6:8 - to do Zechariah 7:9 - saying Zechariah 14:20 - shall there Matthew 9:13 - I will Matthew 23:23 - the weightier Luke 11:42 - and pass Ephesians 5:10 - acceptable

Cross-References

Genesis 17:19
But God said, "No, Sarah your wife shall bear you a son indeed, and you shall name him Isaac (laughter); and I will establish My covenant with him for an everlasting covenant and with his descendants after him.
Genesis 21:6
Sarah said, "God has made me laugh; all who hear [about our good news] will laugh with me."
Genesis 21:12
God said to Abraham, "Do not let it distress you because of Ishmael and your maid; whatever Sarah tells you, listen to her and do what she asks, for your descendants will be named through Isaac.
Genesis 22:2
God said, "Take now your son, your only son [of promise], whom you love, Isaac, and go to the region of Moriah, and offer him there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains of which I shall tell you."
Joshua 24:3
'Then I took your father Abraham from beyond the [Euphrates] River and led him through all the land of Canaan, and multiplied his descendants, and I gave him Isaac.
Matthew 1:2
Abraham was the father of Isaac, Isaac the father of Jacob, and Jacob the father of Judah and his brothers [who became the twelve tribes of Israel].
Acts 7:8
"And God gave Abraham a covenant [a formal agreement to be strictly observed] of [which] circumcision [was the sign]; and so [under these circumstances] Abraham became the father of Isaac, and circumcised him on the eighth day; and Isaac [became the father] of Jacob, and Jacob [became the father] of the twelve patriarchs.
Romans 9:7
and they are not all the children of Abraham because they are his descendants [by blood], but [the promise was]: "YOUR DESCENDANTS WILL BE NAMED THROUGH ISAAC" [though Abraham had other sons].
Hebrews 11:18
to whom it was said, "THROUGH ISAAC YOUR DESCENDANTS SHALL BE CALLED."

Gill's Notes on the Bible

To do justice and judgment,.... The moral duties of religion, what is holy, just, and good, which the law requires; what is agreeably to both tables, piety towards God, and justice to men; that which is just and right between man and man; which, especially if done from right principles and with right views,

[is] more acceptable to the Lord than sacrifice; not than any sacrifice; than the sacrifice of a broken heart, or the sacrifice of praise and thanksgiving, or of acts of goodness and beneficence, or of a man's whole self to the Lord; but than ceremonial sacrifices; which, though of divine institution, and typical of Christ, and when offered up in the faith of him, were acceptable to God, while in force; yet not when done without faith and in hypocrisy, and especially when done to cover and countenance immoral actions; and, even when compared with moral duties, the latter were preferable to them; see 1 Samuel 15:22.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Compare the marginal reference. The words have a special significance as coming from the king who had built the temple, and had offered sacrifices that could not be numbered for multitudeā€ 1 Kings 8:5.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Proverbs 21:3. To do justice and judgment — The words of Samuel to Saul. 1 Samuel 15:23.


 
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