11 translations · Hebrew
Proverbs 21:3
To do righteousness and justice is more acceptable to Yahweh than sacrifice.
Proverbs 21:3 in 11 translations
- WEB World English Bible
- To do righteousness and justice is more acceptable to Yahweh than sacrifice.
- KJV King James Version
- To do justice and judgment is more acceptable to the LORD than sacrifice.
- BSB Berean Standard Bible
- To do righteousness and justice is more desirable to the LORD than sacrifice.
- ASV American Standard Version
- To do righteousness and justice Is more acceptable to Jehovah than sacrifice.
- LSV Literal Standard Version
- To do righteousness and judgment, || Is chosen of YHWH rather than sacrifice.
- FBV Free Bible Version
- Doing what's right and fair pleases the Lord more than sacrifices.
- YLT Young’s Literal Translation
- To do righteousness and judgment, Is chosen of Jehovah rather than sacrifice.
- DBY Darby Translation
- To exercise justice and judgment is more acceptable to Jehovah than sacrifice.
- WBT Webster’s Bible
- To do justice and judgment is more acceptable to the LORD than sacrifice.
- WEBC World English Bible (Catholic)
- To do righteousness and justice is more acceptable to the LORD than sacrifice.
- DRA Douay-Rheims 1899
- To do mercy and judgment, pleaseth the Lord more than victims.
The Hebrew words
Each word of the Hebrew text in order, with its transliteration, the Berean Standard Bible’s English for it, and its Strong’s number and short definition.
| Word | Transliteration | English (BSB) | Strong’s |
|---|---|---|---|
| עֲ֭שֹׂה | ‘ă·śōh | To do | H6213 עָשָׂה to make: do |
| צְדָקָ֣ה | ṣə·ḏā·qāh | righteousness | H6666 צְדָקָה righteousness |
| וּמִשְׁפָּ֑ט | ū·miš·pāṭ | and justice | H4941 מִשְׁפָּט justice: judgement |
| נִבְחָ֖ר | niḇ·ḥār | is more desirable | H977 בָּחַר to choose |
| לַיהוָ֣ה | Yah·weh | to the LORD | H3068 יְהֹוָה LORD |
| מִזָּֽבַח׃ | miz·zā·ḇaḥ | than sacrifice | H2077 זֶ֫בַח sacrifice |
Related verses
- 1 Samuel 15:22
Samuel said, “Has Yahweh as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices, as in obeying Yahweh’s voice? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to listen than the fat of rams.
- Hosea 6:6
For I desire mercy, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings.
- Proverbs 15:8
The sacrifice made by the wicked is an abomination to Yahweh, but the prayer of the upright is his delight.
- Micah 6:6–8
How shall I come before Yahweh, and bow myself before the exalted God? Shall I come before him with burnt offerings, with calves a year old? Will Yahweh be pleased with thousands of rams? With tens of thousands of rivers of oil? Shall I give my firstborn for my disobedience? The fruit of my body for the sin of my soul? He has shown you, O man, what is good. What does Yahweh require of you, but to act justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God?
- Mark 12:33
and to love him with all the heart, and with all the understanding, with all the soul, and with all the strength, and to love his neighbor as himself, is more important than all whole burnt offerings and sacrifices.”
- Isaiah 1:11–17
“What are the multitude of your sacrifices to me?”, says Yahweh. “I have had enough of the burnt offerings of rams, and the fat of fed animals. I don’t delight in the blood of bulls, or of lambs, or of male goats. When you come to appear before me, who has required this at your hand, to trample my courts? Bring no more vain offerings. Incense is an abomination to me; new moons, Sabbaths, and convocations: I can’t stand evil assemblies. …
- Jeremiah 7:21–23
Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel says: “Add your burnt offerings to your sacrifices and eat meat. For I didn’t speak to your fathers or command them in the day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt concerning burnt offerings or sacrifices; but this thing I commanded them, saying, ‘Listen to my voice, and I will be your God, and you shall be my people; and walk in all the way that I command you, that it may be well with you.’
- Psalm 50:8
I don’t rebuke you for your sacrifices. Your burnt offerings are continually before me.
Cross references from OpenBible.info, CC BY 4.0, most-voted first; text from the World English Bible.
In context
1 The king’s heart is in Yahweh’s hand like the watercourses. He turns it wherever he desires.
2 Every way of a man is right in his own eyes, but Yahweh weighs the hearts.
3 To do righteousness and justice is more acceptable to Yahweh than sacrifice.
4 A high look, and a proud heart, the lamp of the wicked, is sin.
5 The plans of the diligent surely lead to profit; and everyone who is hasty surely rushes to poverty.
Read all of Proverbs 21 in the World English Bible.
Edition and source notes
Each translation is shown as its source prints it, in its own verse numbering; where an edition numbers this verse differently, its own reference is given. The World English Bible, King James Version and Berean Standard Bible link to their chapter pages. Edition notes.
Literal Standard Version (2020) © Covenant Press and the Covenant Christian Coalition, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0. Imported from the checksum-pinned eBible.org USFX source; the extracted verse text is an adaptation shared under the same license. Free Bible Version (2018) © Dr. Jonathan Gallagher, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0. Imported from the checksum-pinned eBible.org USFX source; the extracted verse text is an adaptation shared under the same license.
The original words and their English come from the Berean Standard Bible translation tables (public domain); lemmas and short definitions from STEPBible (CC BY 4.0), with Greek definitions based on Abbott-Smith.
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