Cross references
Proverbs 21:3
To do righteousness and justice
is more desirable to the LORD than sacrifice.
Proverbs 21:3 has 8 cross-references in the OpenBible.info data, 8 of them with at least 4 reader votes. The strongest point to 1 Samuel 15:22 (29 votes) and Hosea 6:6 (25 votes). 20 other verses point back to it. It links with 16 other books, from Exodus 32 to Ephesians 5.
Which verses does Proverbs 21:3 point to?
Ranked by reader votes. Links with fewer than 4 votes are marked weak.
- 1 Samuel 15:2229 votes
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.
- Hosea 6:625 votes
For I desire mercy, not sacrifice, and the knowledge of God rather than burnt offerings.
- Proverbs 15:821 votes
The sacrifice of the wicked is detestable to the LORD, but the prayer of the upright is His delight.
- Micah 6:6–821 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? …
- Mark 12:3319 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.”
- Isaiah 1:11–1715 votes
“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? …
- Jeremiah 7:21–2315 votes
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, …
- Psalm 50:810 votes
I do not rebuke you for your sacrifices, and your burnt offerings are ever before Me.
Which verses point to Proverbs 21:3?
The 10 strongest of 20.