Cross references
1 Samuel 15:22
But Samuel declared:
“Does the LORD delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices
as much as in obedience to His voice?
Behold, obedience is better than sacrifice,
and attentiveness is better than the fat of rams.
1 Samuel 15:22 has 20 cross-references in the OpenBible.info data, 20 of them with at least 4 reader votes. The strongest point to Hosea 6:6 (420 votes) and Psalm 51:16–17 (375 votes). 53 other verses point back to it. It links with 24 other books, from Genesis 2 to Hebrews 10.
Which verses does 1 Samuel 15:22 point to?
Ranked by reader votes. Links with fewer than 4 votes are marked weak.
- Hosea 6:6420 votes
For I desire mercy, not sacrifice, and the knowledge of God rather than burnt offerings.
- Psalm 51:16–17375 votes
For You do not delight in sacrifice, or I would bring it; You take no pleasure in burnt offerings. The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit; a broken and a contrite heart, O God, You will not despise.
- Proverbs 21:3348 votes
To do righteousness and justice is more desirable to the LORD than sacrifice.
- Amos 5:21–24298 votes
“I hate, I despise your feasts! I cannot stand the stench of your solemn assemblies. Even though you offer Me burnt offerings and grain offerings, I will not accept them; for your peace offerings of fattened cattle I will have no regard. …
- Mark 12:33288 votes
and to love Him with all your heart and with all your understanding and with all your strength, and to love your neighbor as yourself. This is more important than all burnt offerings and sacrifices.”
- Matthew 9:13258 votes
But go and learn what this means: ‘I desire mercy, not sacrifice.’ For I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners.”
- Micah 6:6–8236 votes
With what shall I come before the LORD when I bow before the God on high? Should I come to Him with burnt offerings, with year-old calves? Would the LORD be pleased with thousands of rams, with ten thousand rivers of oil? Shall I present my firstborn for my transgression, the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul? …
- Jeremiah 7:22–23226 votes
For when I brought your fathers out of the land of Egypt, I did not merely command them about burnt offerings and sacrifices, but this is what I commanded them: Obey Me, and I will be your God, and you will be My people. You must walk in all the ways I have commanded you, so that it may go well with you.
- Psalm 40:6–8187 votes
Sacrifice and offering You did not desire, but my ears You have opened. Burnt offerings and sin offerings You did not require. Then I said, “Here I am, I have come—it is written about me in the scroll: …
- Ecclesiastes 5:1185 votes
Guard your steps when you go to the house of God. Draw near to listen rather than to offer the sacrifice of fools, who do not know that they do wrong.
- Isaiah 1:11–17184 votes
- Matthew 12:7172 votes
- Hebrews 10:4–10159 votes
- Matthew 23:23140 votes
- Psalm 50:8–9115 votes
- Matthew 5:24112 votes
- Jeremiah 26:13102 votes
- Exodus 19:598 votes
- Jeremiah 11:797 votes
- Jeremiah 11:491 votes
Which verses point to 1 Samuel 15:22?
The 10 strongest of 53.