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Geneva Bible

Proverbs 21:3

To doe iustice and iudgement is more acceptable to the Lord then sacrifice.

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

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.
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.
Amplified Bible
To do righteousness and justice Is more acceptable to the LORD than sacrifice [for wrongs repeatedly committed].
World English Bible
To do righteousness and justice Is more acceptable to Yahweh than sacrifice.
Legacy Standard Bible
To do righteousness and justiceIs chosen by Yahweh over 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.
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.
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.
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.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
To do rightuousnesse and iudgmet is more acceptable to the LORDE the sacrifice.
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.
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.
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.
English Revised Version
To do justice and judgment is more acceptable to the LORD than sacrifice.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
To do merci and doom plesith more the Lord, than sacrifices doen.
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.
New King James Version
To do righteousness and justice Is more acceptable to the LORD than sacrifice.
New Living Translation
The Lord is more pleased when we do what is right and just than when we offer him sacrifices.
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.
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.
Young's Literal Translation
To do righteousness and judgment, Is chosen of Jehovah rather than sacrifice.
THE MESSAGE
Clean living before God and justice with our neighbors mean far more to God than religious performance.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
To do righteousness and justice Is desired by the LORD more than sacrifice.

Contextual Overview

3 To doe iustice and iudgement is more acceptable to the Lord then sacrifice.

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
Then God saide, Sarah thy wife shall beare thee a sonne in deede, and thou shalt call his name Izhak: and I will establish my couenant with him for an euerlasting couenant, and with his seede after him.
Genesis 21:6
Then Sarah said, God hath made me to reioyce: all that heare will reioyce with me.
Genesis 21:12
But God said vnto Abraham, Let it not be grieuous in thy sight for the childe, and for thy bonde woman: in all that Sarah shall say vnto thee, heare her voyce: for in Izhak shall thy seede be called.
Genesis 22:2
And he said, Take nowe thine onely sonne Izhak whom thou louest, and get thee vnto the land of Moriah, and offer him there for a burnt offering vpon one of the mountaines, which I will shewe thee.
Joshua 24:3
And I tooke your father Abraham from beyond the flood, and brought him through all the land of Canaan, and multiplied his seede, and gaue him Izhak.
Matthew 1:2
Abraham begate Isaac. And Isaac begate Iacob. And Iacob begat Iudas and his brethren.
Acts 7:8
Hee gaue him also the couenant of circumcision: and so Abraham begate Isaac, and circumcised him the eight day: and Isaac begate Iacob, and Iacob the twelue Patriarkes.
Romans 9:7
Neither are they all children, because they are the seede of Abraham: but, In Isaac shall thy seede be called:
Hebrews 11:18
(To whom it was said, In Isaac shall thy seede 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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