Cross references

Mark 12:33

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.”

Mark 12:33 BSB

Mark 12:33 has 14 cross-references in the OpenBible.info data, 12 of them with at least 4 reader votes. The strongest point to Hosea 6:6 (15 votes) and Micah 6:6–8 (15 votes). 34 other verses point back to it. It links with 20 other books, from Exodus 29 to 1 John 4.

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Which verses does Mark 12:33 point to?

Ranked by reader votes. Links with fewer than 4 votes are marked weak.

  1. Hosea 6:615 votes

    For I desire mercy, not sacrifice, and the knowledge of God rather than burnt offerings.

  2. 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? …

  3. 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.

  4. Matthew 9:1310 votes

    But go and learn what this means: ‘I desire mercy, not sacrifice.’ For I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners.”

  5. If only you had known the meaning of ‘I desire mercy, not sacrifice,’ you would not have condemned the innocent.

  6. If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am only a ringing gong or a clanging cymbal. If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have absolute faith so as to move mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. …

  7. This is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: Add your burnt offerings to your other sacrifices and eat the meat yourselves! For when I brought your fathers out of the land of Egypt, I did not merely command them about burnt offerings and sacrifices, …

  8. “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. …

  9. I do not rebuke you for your sacrifices, and your burnt offerings are ever before Me. I have no need for a bull from your stall or goats from your pens, …

  10. “What good to Me is your multitude of sacrifices?” says the LORD. “I am full from the burnt offerings of rams and the fat of well-fed cattle; I take no delight in the blood of bulls and lambs and goats. When you come to appear before Me, who has required this of you—this trampling of My courts? …

Which verses point to Mark 12:33?

The 10 strongest of 34.