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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. |
But go and learn what this means: ‘I desire mercy and not sacrifice.’ For I did not come to call the righteous, but sinners, to repentance.” |
“But go and learn what this means, ‘ |
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But go and learn what this means: ‘I desire mercy, not sacrifice.’ For I have not come to call the righteous, but the sinners.” |
Go and learn what this means: I desire mercy [that is, readiness to help those in trouble] and not sacrifice and sacrificial victims. For I came not to call and invite [to repentance] the righteous (those who are upright and in right standing with God), but sinners (the erring ones and all those not free from sin). |
having gone on your way, learn what is meant, Mercy I am desiring, and not a sacrifice offered on an altar. For I did not come to call men righteous in character but those who are sinners by nature. |
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You should go and learn what this text means: ‘I desire mercy and not sacrifice.’ In any case I did not come to invite the ‘righteous’ but the ‘sinners.’” |
Go, learn what this means, ‘It is mercy and not sacrifice that I want.’ It is not upright but sinful people that I have come to invite.” |
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