Hosea 6:6 · KJV

"For I desired mercy, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings."

King James Version

Passage Context

⁴O Ephraim, what shall I do unto thee? O Judah, what shall I do unto thee? for your goodness is as a morning cloud, and as the early dew it goeth away.

⁵Therefore have I hewed them by the prophets; I have slain them by the words of my mouth: and thy judgments are as the light that goeth forth.

⁶For I desired mercy, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings.

⁷But they like men have transgressed the covenant: there have they dealt treacherously against me.

⁸Gilead is a city of them that work iniquity, and is polluted with blood.

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