3 bTo do righteousness and justice
is more acceptable to the Lord than sacrifice.
8 He has told you, O man, what is good;
and fwhat does the Lord require of you
but to do justice, and to love kindness,1
and to gwalk humbly with your God?
22 And Samuel said,
w“Has the Lord as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices,
as in obeying the voice of the Lord?
Behold, xto obey is better than sacrifice,
and to listen than the fat of rams.
33 And to love him with all the heart and with all bthe understanding and with all the strength, and to love one’s neighbor as oneself, cis much more than all dwhole burnt offerings and sacrifices.”
6 “So you, gby the help of your God, return,
hhold fast to love and justice,
and wait continually for your God.”
39 And she had a sister called bMary, who dsat at the Lord’s feet and listened to his teaching.
42 but one thing is necessary.1 Mary has chosen fthe good portion, which will not be taken away from her.”
13 for hit is God who works in you, both to will and to work for ihis good pleasure.
