Luke 5:33
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A Question About Fasting
33 And they said to him, (A)“The disciples of John (B)fast often and (C)offer prayers, (D)and so do the disciples of the Pharisees, but yours eat and drink.”
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Mark 2:18-22
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A Question About Fasting
18 Now (A)John's disciples and the Pharisees were fasting. And people came and said to him, (B)“Why do John's disciples and (C)the disciples of the Pharisees fast, but your disciples do not fast?” 19 And Jesus said to them, (D)“Can the wedding guests fast while the bridegroom is with them? As long as they have the bridegroom with them, they cannot fast. 20 (E)The days will come when the bridegroom is taken away from them, and (F)then they will fast in that day. 21 No one sews a piece of unshrunk cloth on an old garment. If he does, the patch tears away from it, the new from the old, and a worse tear is made. 22 And no one puts new wine into old (G)wineskins. If he does, the wine will burst the skins—and the wine is destroyed, and so are the skins. But new wine is for fresh wineskins.”[a]
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- Mark 2:22 Some manuscripts omit But new wine is for fresh wineskins
Matthew 9:14-17
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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?” 15 And Jesus said to them, (D)“Can the wedding guests mourn as long as the bridegroom is with them? (E)The days will come when the bridegroom is taken away from them, and (F)then they will fast. 16 No one puts a piece of unshrunk cloth on an old garment, for the patch tears away from the garment, and a worse tear is made. 17 Neither is new wine put into old (G)wineskins. If it is, the skins burst and the wine is spilled and the skins are destroyed. But new wine is put into fresh wineskins, and so both are preserved.”
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- Matthew 9:14 Some manuscripts add much, or often
Romans 10:2-3
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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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Acts 9:11
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11 And the Lord said to him, “Rise and go to the street called Straight, and at the house of Judas look for a man (A)of Tarsus named Saul, for behold, he is praying,
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John 3:25
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25 Now a discussion arose between some of John's disciples and a Jew over (A)purification.
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John 1:35
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Jesus Calls the First Disciples
35 The next day again John was standing with two of his disciples,
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Luke 20:47
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47 (A)who devour widows' houses and (B)for a pretense make long prayers. They will receive the greater condemnation.”
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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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Luke 11:1
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The Lord's Prayer
11 Now Jesus[a] was praying in a certain place, and when he finished, one of his disciples said to him, “Lord, teach us to pray, (A)as John taught his disciples.”
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- Luke 11:1 Greek he
Luke 7:34-35
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34 The Son of Man has come (A)eating and drinking, and you say, ‘Look at him! A glutton and a drunkard, (B)a friend of tax collectors and sinners!’ 35 Yet (C)wisdom is justified by all her children.”
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Mark 12:40
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40 (A)who devour widows' houses and (B)for a pretense make long prayers. They will receive the greater condemnation.”
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Matthew 23:13
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13 “But woe (A)to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you (B)shut the kingdom of heaven in people's faces. For you (C)neither enter yourselves nor allow those who would enter to go in.[a]
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- Matthew 23:13 Some manuscripts add here (or after verse 12) verse 14: Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you devour widows' houses and for a pretense you make long prayers; therefore you will receive the greater condemnation
Matthew 6:5-6
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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. 6 But when you pray, (C)go into your room and shut the door and pray to your Father who is in secret. (D)And your Father who sees in secret will reward you.
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Zechariah 7:6
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6 (A)And when you eat and when you drink, do you not eat for yourselves and drink for yourselves?
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Isaiah 58:3-6
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3 (A)‘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]
(B)and oppress all your workers.
4 Behold, you fast only to quarrel and to fight
and to hit with a wicked fist.
Fasting like yours this day
will not make your voice to be heard on high.
5 (C)Is such the fast that I choose,
(D)a day for a person to humble himself?
Is it to bow down his head like a reed,
and to spread sackcloth and ashes under him?
Will you call this a fast,
and a day acceptable to the Lord?
6 “Is not this the fast that I choose:
(E)to loose the bonds of wickedness,
to undo the straps (F)of the yoke,
to let the oppressed[b] go free,
and to break every yoke?
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- Isaiah 58:3 Or pursue your own business
- Isaiah 58:6 Or bruised
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.
Proverbs 28:9
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9 If one turns away his ear from hearing the law,
even his (A)prayer is an abomination.
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