Micah 6:8

¹²Now, Israel, what does the LORD your God require of you, but to fear the LORD your God, to walk in all his ways, to love him, and to serve the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul, ¹³to keep the LORD’s commandments and statutes, which I command you today for your good?

³To do righteousness and justice is more acceptable to the LORD than sacrifice.

¹²Put on therefore, as God’s chosen ones, holy and beloved, a heart of compassion, kindness, lowliness, humility, and perseverance;

³The LORD says: “Execute justice and righteousness, and deliver him who is robbed out of the hand of the oppressor. Do no wrong. Do no violence to the foreigner, the fatherless, or the widow. Don’t shed innocent blood in this place.

⁶For I desire mercy, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings.

²²Samuel said, “Has the LORD as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices, as in obeying the LORD’s voice? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to listen than the fat of rams.

²For my hand has made all these things, and so all these things came to be,” says the LORD: “but I will look to this man, even to he who is poor and of a contrite spirit, and who trembles at my word.

⁸Finally, all of you be like-minded, compassionate, loving as brothers, tenderhearted, courteous,

⁵Likewise, you younger ones, be subject to the elder. Yes, all of you clothe yourselves with humility and subject yourselves to one another; for “God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”⁶Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, that he may exalt you in due time,

³⁶“Therefore be merciful, even as your Father is also merciful.