Micah 6:8

God answers that He requires not lavish ritual but justice, mercy, and humble fellowship with Him. This is one of Scripture's clearest summaries of true godliness.

Cross-references · 40

• Deut 10:12–13And now, O Israel, what does the LORD your God ask of you but to fear the LORD your God by walking in all His ways, to love Him, to serve the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul,
• Prov 21:3To do righteousness and justice is more desirable to the LORD than sacrifice.
• Col 3:12Therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, clothe yourselves with hearts of compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness, and patience.
• Jer 22:3This is what the LORD says: Administer justice and righteousness. Rescue the victim of robbery from the hand of his oppressor. Do no wrong or violence to the foreigner, the fatherless, or the widow. Do not shed innocent blood in this place.
• Hos 6:6For I desire mercy, not sacrifice, and the knowledge of God rather than burnt offerings.
• 1 Sam 15:22But Samuel declared: “Does the LORD delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices as much as in obedience to His voice? Behold, obedience is better than sacrifice, and attentiveness is better than the fat of rams.
• Isa 66:2Has not My hand made all these things? And so they came into being,” declares the LORD. “This is the one I will esteem: he who is humble and contrite in spirit, who trembles at My word.
• 1 Pet 3:8Finally, all of you, be like-minded and sympathetic, love as brothers, be tenderhearted and humble.
• 1 Pet 5:5–6Young men, in the same way, submit yourselves to your elders. And all of you, clothe yourselves with humility toward one another, because, “God opposes the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”
• Luke 6:36Be merciful, just as your Father is merciful.
• Isa 1:16–19Wash and cleanse yourselves. Remove your evil deeds from My sight. Stop doing evil!
• Amos 5:24But let justice roll on like a river, and righteousness like an ever-flowing stream.
• Luke 11:42Woe to you Pharisees! You pay tithes of mint, rue, and every herb, but you disregard justice and the love of God. You should have practiced the latter without neglecting the former.
• Eph 4:32Be kind and tenderhearted to one another, forgiving each other just as in Christ God forgave you.
• Isa 58:6–11Isn’t this the fast that I have chosen: to break the chains of wickedness, to untie the cords of the yoke, to set the oppressed free and tear off every yoke?
• Gen 18:19For I have chosen him, so that he will command his children and his household after him to keep the way of the LORD by doing what is right and just, in order that the LORD may bring upon Abraham what He has promised.”
• Eccl 12:13When all has been heard, the conclusion of the matter is this: Fear God and keep His commandments, because this is the whole duty of man.
• Matt 5:7Blessed are the merciful, for they will be shown mercy.
• Hos 12:6But you must return to your God, maintaining love and justice, and always waiting on your God.
• Isa 57:15For thus says the One who is high and lifted up, who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy: “I dwell in a high and holy place, and with the oppressed and humble in spirit, to restore the spirit of the lowly and revive the heart of the contrite.
• 2 Pet 1:5–8For this very reason, make every effort to add to your faith virtue; and to virtue, knowledge;
• Zeph 2:3Seek the LORD, all you humble of the earth who carry out His justice. Seek righteousness; seek humility. Perhaps you will be sheltered on the day of the LORD’s anger.
• Mark 12:30–34Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.’
• Matt 5:3“Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
• Dan 4:37Now I, Nebuchadnezzar, praise and exalt and glorify the King of heaven, for all His works are true and all His ways are just. And He is able to humble those who walk in pride.
• Luke 18:13–17But the tax collector stood at a distance, unwilling even to lift up his eyes to heaven. Instead, he beat his breast and said, ‘God, have mercy on me, a sinner!’
• Jas 4:6–10But He gives us more grace. This is why it says: “God opposes the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”
• Ps 37:26They are ever generous and quick to lend, and their children are a blessing.
• Titus 2:11–12For the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation to everyone.
• Neh 9:13You came down on Mount Sinai and spoke with them from heaven. You gave them just ordinances, true laws, and good statutes and commandments.
• Isa 57:1–2The righteous perish, and no one takes it to heart; devout men are swept away, while no one considers that the righteous are guided from the presence of evil.
• Ps 112:4Light dawns in the darkness for the upright—for the gracious, compassionate, and righteous.
• Jer 7:3–6Thus says the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel: Correct your ways and deeds, and I will let you live in this place.
• 2 Chr 34:27because your heart was tender and you humbled yourself before God when you heard His words against this place and against its people, and because you have humbled yourself before Me and you have torn your clothes and wept before Me, I have heard you,’ declares the LORD.
• Ps 73:28But as for me, it is good to draw near to God. I have made the Lord GOD my refuge, that I may proclaim all Your works.
• Matt 3:8–10Produce fruit, then, in keeping with repentance.
• 2 Chr 32:26Then Hezekiah humbled the pride of his heart—he and the people of Jerusalem—so that the wrath of the LORD did not come upon them during the days of Hezekiah.
• Matt 18:32–35Then the master summoned him and declared, ‘You wicked servant! I forgave all your debt because you begged me.
• Lam 3:26It is good to wait quietly for the salvation of the LORD.
• Jas 2:20O foolish man, do you want evidence that faith without deeds is worthless?

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