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New Living Translation

Proverbs 21:3

The Lord is more pleased when we do what is right and just than when we offer him sacrifices.

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;   Sheḳalim;  

Devotionals:

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

Parallel Translations

Legacy Standard Bible
To do righteousness and justiceIs chosen by Yahweh over sacrifice.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
To do righteousness and justice Is desired by the LORD more than sacrifice.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
To do righteousnes and iudgement, is more acceptable to the Lorde then sacrifice.
Darby Translation
To exercise justice and judgment is more acceptable to Jehovah than sacrifice.
New King James Version
To do righteousness and justice Is more acceptable to the LORD than sacrifice.
Literal Translation
For Jehovah, to do righteousness and justice is to be chosen more than sacrifice.
Easy-to-Read Version
Do what is right and fair. The Lord loves that more than sacrifices.
World English Bible
To do righteousness and justice Is more acceptable to Yahweh than sacrifice.
King James Version (1611)
To doe iustice and iudgement, is more acceptable to the Lord, then sacrifice.
King James Version
To do justice and judgment is more acceptable to the Lord 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.
Amplified Bible
To do righteousness and justice Is more acceptable to the LORD than sacrifice [for wrongs repeatedly committed].
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.
Update Bible Version
To do righteousness and justice Is more acceptable to Yahweh than sacrifice.
Webster's Bible Translation
To do justice and judgment [is] more acceptable to the LORD than sacrifice.
New English Translation
To do righteousness and justice is more acceptable to the Lord than sacrifice.
Contemporary English Version
Doing what is right and fair pleases the Lord more than an offering.
Complete Jewish Bible
To do what is right and just is more pleasing to Adonai 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.
Hebrew Names Version
To do righteousness and justice Is more acceptable to the LORD than sacrifice.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
To do righteousness and justice is more acceptable to the LORD than 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.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
To do justly and to speak truth, are more pleasing to God than the blood of sacrifices.
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.
New Revised Standard
To do righteousness and justice is more acceptable to the Lord than sacrifice.
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.
Lexham English Bible
Doing 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.
New American Standard Bible
To do righteousness and justice Is preferred by the LORD more than sacrifice.
New Century Version
Doing what is right and fair is more important to the Lord than sacrifices.
Good News Translation
Do what is right and fair; that pleases the Lord more than bringing him sacrifices.
Christian Standard Bible®
Doing what is righteous and just is more acceptable to the Lord than sacrifice.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
To do merci and doom plesith more the Lord, than sacrifices doen.
Revised Standard Version
To do righteousness and justice is more acceptable to the LORD than sacrifice.
Young's Literal Translation
To do righteousness and judgment, Is chosen of Jehovah rather than sacrifice.

Contextual Overview

3 The Lord is more pleased when we do what is right and just than when we offer him sacrifices.

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 replied, "No—Sarah, your wife, will give birth to a son for you. You will name him Isaac, and I will confirm my covenant with him and his descendants as an everlasting covenant.
Genesis 21:6
And Sarah declared, "God has brought me laughter. All who hear about this will laugh with me.
Genesis 21:12
But God told Abraham, "Do not be upset over the boy and your servant. Do whatever Sarah tells you, for Isaac is the son through whom your descendants will be counted.
Genesis 22:2
"Take your son, your only son—yes, Isaac, whom you love so much—and go to the land of Moriah. Go and sacrifice him as a burnt offering on one of the mountains, which I will show you."
Joshua 24:3
But I took your ancestor Abraham from the land beyond the Euphrates and led him into the land of Canaan. I gave him many descendants through his son Isaac.
Matthew 1:2
Abraham was the father of Isaac. Isaac was the father of Jacob. Jacob was the father of Judah and his brothers.
Acts 7:8
"God also gave Abraham the covenant of circumcision at that time. So when Abraham became the father of Isaac, he circumcised him on the eighth day. And the practice was continued when Isaac became the father of Jacob, and when Jacob became the father of the twelve patriarchs of the Israelite nation.
Romans 9:7
Being descendants of Abraham doesn't make them truly Abraham's children. For the Scriptures say, "Isaac is the son through whom your descendants will be counted," though Abraham had other children, too.
Hebrews 11:18
even though God had told him, "Isaac is the son through whom your descendants will be counted."

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 multitude” 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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