6 cIn sacrifice and offering you have not delighted,
but you have given me an open ear.1
Burnt offering and sin offering
you have not required.
7 Then I said, “Behold, I have come;
in the scroll of the book it is written of me:
8 I ddelight to do your will, O my God;
your law is within my heart.”
3 iTo do righteousness and justice
is more acceptable to the Lord than sacrifice.
6 For eI desire steadfast love1 and not sacrifice,
the knowledge of God frather than burnt offerings.
What Does the Lord Require?
6 “With what shall I come before the Lord,
and bow myself before God on high?
aShall I come before him with burnt offerings,
with calves a year old?
7 Will the Lord be pleased with1 thousands of rams,
with ten thousands of rivers of oil?
Shall I give my bfirstborn for my transgression,
the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul?”
8 He has told you, O man, what is good;
and cwhat does the Lord require of you
but to do djustice, and to love kindness,2
and to walk humbly with your God?
33 And to love him with all the heart and with all the understanding and with all the strength, and to love one’s neighbor as oneself, is much rmore than all whole burnt offerings and sacrifices.”
5 Consequently, when Christ1 came pinto the world, he said,
q“Sacrifices and offerings ryou have not desired,
but a body have you prepared for me;
6 in burnt offerings and sin offerings
you have taken no pleasure.
7 Then I said, ‘Behold, I have come to do your will, O God,
as it is written of me in the scroll of the book.’”
8 When he said above, “You have neither desired nor taken pleasure in sacrifices and offerings and sburnt offerings and tsin offerings” (these are offered according to the law), 9 then he added, “Behold, I have come to do your will.” He does away with the first in order to establish the second. 10 And by that will we have been usanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ vonce for all.
