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Matthew 9:13

New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures
- 13 Go, then, and learn what this means: ‘I want mercy, and not sacrifice.’+ For I came to call, not righteous people, but sinners.”

Matthew 9:13

The Kingdom Interlinear Translation of the Greek Scriptures
- 13 πορευθέντες Having gone YOUR way δὲ but μάθετε learn YOU τί what ἐστιν is Ἔλεος Mercy θέλω I am willing καὶ and οὐ not θυσίαν· sacrifice; οὐ not γὰρ for ἦλθον I came καλέσαι to call δικαίους righteous (ones) ἀλλὰ but ἁμαρτωλούς. sinners.

Matthew 9:13

New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures—With References
- 13 Go, then, and learn what this means, ‘I want mercy, and not sacrifice.’+ For I came to call, not righteous people, but sinners.”

Matthew 9:13

The Bible in Living English
- 13 But go and learn what ‘I want pity, and not sacrifice’ is; for I have not come to call saints, but sinners.”

Matthew 9:13

American Standard Version
- 13 But go ye and learn what this meaneth, I desire mercy, and not sacrifice, for I came not to call the righteous, but sinners.

Matthew 9:13

The Emphasized Bible
- 13 But go ye and learn what this meaneth,—Mercy I desire, and not sacrifice; For I came not to call the righteous, but sinners.

Matthew 9:13

King James Version
- 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.

Matthew Study Notes—Chapter 9

New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures (Study Edition)
- 9:13
  
  mercy, and not sacrifice: Jesus twice refers to these words from Ho 6:6 (here and at Mt 12:7). Matthew, a despised tax collector who became an intimate associate of Jesus, is the only Gospel writer to record this quote as well as the illustration of the unmerciful slave. (Mt 18:21-35) His Gospel highlights Jesus’ repeated insistence that mercy is required in addition to sacrifice.