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Proverbs 21:3

World English Bible

To do righteousness and justice
is more acceptable to Yahweh than sacrifice.

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Proverbs 21:3 in other translations

To do righteousness and justice Is more acceptable to Jehovah than sacrifice.

Proverbs 21:3 · American Standard Version

Proverbs 21:3 in context

  1. 1The king’s heart is in Yahweh’s hand like the watercourses.
    He turns it wherever he desires.
  2. 2Every way of a man is right in his own eyes,
    but Yahweh weighs the hearts.
  3. 3To do righteousness and justice
    is more acceptable to Yahweh than sacrifice.
  4. 4A high look and a proud heart,
    the lamp of the wicked, is sin.
  5. 5The plans of the diligent surely lead to profit;
    and everyone who is hasty surely rushes to poverty.