13 Go and learn what this means: I desire mercy and not sacrifice.[a](A) For I didn’t come to call the righteous, but sinners.”[b]

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  1. 9:13 Hs 6:6
  2. 9:13 Other mss add to repentance

13 But go and learn what this means: ‘I desire mercy, not sacrifice.’[a](A) For I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners.”(B)

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  1. Matthew 9:13 Hosea 6:6

13 But go ye and learn what that meaneth, I will have mercy, and not sacrifice: for I am not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.

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If you had known what this means, I desire mercy and not sacrifice,[a](A) you would not have condemned the innocent.

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  1. 12:7 Hs 6:6

If you had known what these words mean, ‘I desire mercy, not sacrifice,’[a](A) you would not have condemned the innocent.

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  1. Matthew 12:7 Hosea 6:6

But if ye had known what this meaneth, I will have mercy, and not sacrifice, ye would not have condemned the guiltless.

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