Luke 18:12
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12 (A)I fast twice a week; (B)I give tithes of all that I get.’
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Matthew 23:23-24
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23 (A)“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For (B)you tithe mint and dill and (C)cumin, and have neglected the weightier matters of the law: (D)justice and mercy and faithfulness. (E)These you ought to have done, without neglecting the others. 24 You blind guides, straining out a gnat and swallowing (F)a camel!
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Matthew 9:14
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A Question About Fasting
14 Then (A)the disciples of John came to him, saying, (B)“Why do we and (C)the Pharisees fast,[a] but your disciples do not fast?”
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- Matthew 9:14 Some manuscripts add much, or often
Luke 17:10
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10 So you also, when you have done all that you were commanded, say, ‘We are (A)unworthy servants;[a] we have only done what was our duty.’”
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- Luke 17:10 Or bondservants
Matthew 15:7-9
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7 (A)You hypocrites! Well did Isaiah prophesy of you, when he said:
8 (B)“‘This people honors me with their lips,
but their heart is far from me;
9 in vain do they worship me,
teaching as (C)doctrines the commandments of men.’”
Matthew 6:1
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Giving to the Needy
6 “Beware of (A)practicing your righteousness before other people in order (B)to be seen by them, for then you will have no reward from your Father who is in heaven.
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Malachi 3:8
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8 Will man rob God? Yet you are robbing me. (A)But you say, ‘How have we robbed you?’ (B)In your tithes and contributions.
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1 Timothy 4:8
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8 for while (A)bodily training is of some value, godliness (B)is of value in every way, as (C)it holds promise for the present life and also for the life to come.
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Ephesians 2:9
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9 (A)not a result of works, (B)so that no one may boast.
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Galatians 1:14
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14 And I was advancing in Judaism beyond many of my own age among my people, so extremely (A)zealous was I for (B)the traditions of my fathers.
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1 Corinthians 1:29
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29 so (A)that no human being[a] might boast in the presence of God.
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- 1 Corinthians 1:29 Greek no flesh
Romans 10:1-3
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10 Brothers,[a] my heart's desire and prayer to God for them is that they may be saved. 2 For I bear them witness that (A)they have a zeal for God, (B)but not according to knowledge. 3 For, being ignorant of (C)the righteousness of God, and seeking to establish their own, they did not submit to God's righteousness.
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- Romans 10:1 Or Brothers and sisters
Romans 3:27
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27 (A)Then what becomes of our boasting? It is excluded. By what kind of law? By a law of works? No, but by the law of faith.
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Matthew 6:16
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Fasting
16 “And (A)when you fast, do not look gloomy like the hypocrites, for they disfigure their faces that their fasting may be seen by others. (B)Truly, I say to you, they have received their reward.
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Matthew 6:5
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The Lord's Prayer
5 “And when you pray, you must not be like the hypocrites. For they love (A)to stand and pray in the synagogues and at the street corners, that they may be seen by others. (B)Truly, I say to you, they have received their reward.
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Zechariah 7:5-6
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5 “Say to all the people of the land and the priests, ‘When you fasted and mourned in (A)the fifth month and in (B)the seventh, for these (C)seventy years, (D)was it (E)for me that you fasted? 6 (F)And when you eat and when you drink, do you not eat for yourselves and drink for yourselves?
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Isaiah 58:2-3
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2 (A)Yet they seek me daily
and delight to know my ways,
as if they were a nation that did righteousness
and did not forsake the judgment of their God;
they ask of me righteous judgments;
they delight to draw near to God.
3 (B)‘Why have we fasted, and you see it not?
Why have we humbled ourselves, and you take no knowledge of it?’
Behold, in the day of your fast you seek your own pleasure,[a]
(C)and oppress all your workers.
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- Isaiah 58:3 Or pursue your own business
Isaiah 1:15
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15 When you (A)spread out your hands,
I will hide my eyes from you;
(B)even though you make many prayers,
I will not listen;
(C)your hands are full of blood.
2 Kings 10:16
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16 And he said, “Come with me, and see (A)my zeal for the Lord.” So he[a] had him ride in his chariot.
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- 2 Kings 10:16 Septuagint, Syriac, Targum; Hebrew they
1 Samuel 15:13
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13 And Samuel came to Saul, and Saul said to him, (A)“Blessed be you to the Lord. I have performed the commandment of the Lord.”
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Numbers 23:4
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4 (A)and God met Balaam. And Balaam said to him, “I have arranged the seven altars and I have offered on each altar a bull and a ram.”
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Numbers 18:24
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24 For the tithe of the people of Israel, which (A)they present as a contribution to the Lord, I have given to the Levites for an inheritance. Therefore I have said of them that they shall have no inheritance (B)among the people of Israel.”
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Leviticus 27:30-33
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30 (A)“Every tithe of the land, whether of the seed of the land or of the fruit of the trees, is the Lord's; it is holy to the Lord. 31 If a man wishes to redeem some of his tithe, he shall add a fifth to it. 32 And every tithe of herds and flocks, every tenth animal of all that (B)pass under the herdsman's staff, shall be holy to the Lord. 33 One shall not differentiate between good or bad, (C)neither shall he make a substitute for it; and if he does substitute for it, then both it and the substitute shall be holy; it shall not be redeemed.”
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