Hosea 6:6
Modern Translations
New International Version
For I desire mercy, not sacrifice, and acknowledgment of God rather than burnt offerings.

New Living Translation
I want you to show love, not offer sacrifices. I want you to know me more than I want burnt offerings.

English Standard Version
For I desire steadfast love and not sacrifice, the knowledge of God rather than burnt offerings.

Berean Study Bible
For I desire mercy, not sacrifice, and the knowledge of God rather than burnt offerings.

New American Standard Bible
For I desire loyalty rather than sacrifice, And the knowledge of God rather than burnt offerings.

NASB 1995
For I delight in loyalty rather than sacrifice, And in the knowledge of God rather than burnt offerings.

NASB 1977
For I delight in loyalty rather than sacrifice, And in the knowledge of God rather than burnt offerings.

Amplified Bible
For I desire and delight in [steadfast] loyalty [faithfulness in the covenant relationship], rather than sacrifice, And in the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings.

Christian Standard Bible
For I desire faithful love and not sacrifice, the knowledge of God rather than burnt offerings.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
For I desire loyalty and not sacrifice, the knowledge of God rather than burnt offerings.

Contemporary English Version
I'd rather for you to be faithful and to know me than to offer sacrifices.

Good News Translation
I want your constant love, not your animal sacrifices. I would rather have my people know me than burn offerings to me.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
I want your loyalty, not your sacrifices. I want you to know me, not to give me burnt offerings.

International Standard Version
For it is love that I seek, and not sacrifice; knowledge of God more than burnt offerings.

NET Bible
For I delight in faithfulness, not simply in sacrifice; I delight in acknowledging God, not simply in whole burnt offerings.
Classic Translations
King James Bible
For I desired mercy, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings.

New King James Version
For I desire mercy and not sacrifice, And the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings.

King James 2000 Bible
For I desired mercy, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings.

New Heart English Bible
For I desire mercy, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings.

World English Bible
For I desire mercy, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings.

American King James Version
For I desired mercy, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings.

American Standard Version
For I desire goodness, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more than burnt-offerings.

A Faithful Version
For I desire mercy and not sacrifice, and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings.

Darby Bible Translation
For I delight in loving-kindness, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more than burnt-offerings.

English Revised Version
For I desire mercy, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings.

Webster's Bible Translation
For I desired mercy, and not sacrifice: and the knowledge of God more than burnt-offerings.

Early Modern
Geneva Bible of 1587
For I desired mercie, and not sacrifice, and the knowledge of God more then burnt offrings.

Bishops' Bible of 1568
For I desired mercy, and not sacrifice: and the knowledge of God more then burnt offeringes.

Coverdale Bible of 1535
For I haue pleasure in louynge kyndnesse, and not in offerynge: Yee in the knowlege of God, more then in burntsacrifice.
Literal Translations
Literal Standard Version
For kindness I desired, and not sacrifice, "" And a knowledge of God above burnt-offerings.

Young's Literal Translation
For kindness I desired, and not sacrifice, And a knowledge of God above burnt-offerings.

Smith's Literal Translation
For I delighted in mercy and not sacrifice; the knowledge of God more than burnt-offerings.

Catholic Translations
Douay-Rheims Bible
For I desired mercy, and not sacrifice: and the knowledge of God more than holocausts.

Catholic Public Domain Version
For I desired mercy and not sacrifice, and knowledge of God more than holocausts.

Translations from Aramaic
Peshitta Holy Bible Translated
Because I have pleasure in goodness and not in sacrifice, and in the knowledge of God more than burning peace offerings

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

OT Translations
JPS Tanakh 1917
For I desire mercy, and not sacrifice, And the knowledge of God rather than burnt-offerings.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
For I will have mercy rather than sacrifice, and the knowledge of God rather than whole-burnt-offerings.
















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