THEOSISProverbs 21:3Meaning & Commentary from the Church Fathers
To do mercy and judgment, pleaseth the Lord more than victims.
עֲ֭שֹׂה צְדָקָ֣ה וּמִשְׁפָּ֑ט נִבְחָ֖ר לַיהוָ֣ה מִזָּֽבַח׃
The Church Fathers on this verse
No commentary on this verse yet
No Church Father commentary is available for this verse yet.
Cross references
Passages read together with this verse.
- 1 Sam 15:22And Samuel said: Doth the Lord desire holocausts and victims, and not rather that the voice of the Lord should be obeyed? For obedience is better than sacrifices: and to hearken rather than to offer the fat or rams.
- Hos 6:6For I desired mercy, and not sacrifice: and the knowledge of God more than holocausts.
- Mic 6:6What shall I offer to the Lord that is worthy? wherewith shall I kneel before the high God? shall I offer holocausts unto him, and calves of a year old?
- Mic 6:8I will shew thee, O man, what is good, and what the Lord requireth of thee: Verily to do judgment, and to love mercy, and to walk solicitous with thy God.
- Prov 15:8The victims of the wicked are abominable to the Lord: the vows of the just are acceptable.
- Mark 12:33And that he should be loved with the whole heart and with the whole understanding and with the whole soul and with the whole strength. And to love one's neighbour as one's self is a greater thing than all holocausts and sacrifices.
- Isa 1:11To what purpose do you offer me the multitude of your victims, saith the Lord? I am full, I desire not holocausts of rams, and fat of fatlings, and blood of calves, and lambs, and buck goats.
- Isa 1:17Learn to do well: seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge for the fatherless, defend the widow.