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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Isaiah 58:3-5
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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?
Footnotes
- Isaiah 58:3 Or pursue your own business
Matthew 9:14-15
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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.
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- Matthew 9:14 Some manuscripts add much, or often
Nehemiah 1:4
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Nehemiah's Prayer
4 As soon as I heard these words I (A)sat down and wept and mourned for days, and I continued fasting and praying before the (B)God of heaven.
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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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Daniel 9:3
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3 Then I turned my face to the Lord God, seeking him by (A)prayer and pleas for mercy with fasting and sackcloth and ashes.
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Mark 2:18
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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?”
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Psalm 69:10
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10 When I wept and humbled[a] my soul with fasting,
it became my reproach.
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- Psalm 69:10 Hebrew lacks and humbled
Psalm 35:13
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13 But I, (A)when they were sick—
I (B)wore sackcloth;
I (C)afflicted myself with fasting;
I prayed (D)with head bowed[a] on my chest.
Footnotes
- Psalm 35:13 Or my prayer shall turn back
Acts 14:23
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23 And when they had (A)appointed (B)elders for them in every church, with prayer and fasting (C)they committed them to the Lord in whom they had believed.
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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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Matthew 6:2
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2 (A)“Thus, when you give to the needy, sound no trumpet before you, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may (B)be praised by others. Truly, I say to you, they have (C)received their reward.
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Zechariah 7:3-5
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3 (A)saying to the priests of the house of the Lord of hosts and (B)the prophets, “Should I weep and (C)abstain in (D)the fifth month, as I have done for so many years?”
4 Then the word of the Lord of hosts came to me: 5 “Say to all the people of the land and the priests, ‘When you fasted and mourned in (E)the fifth month and in (F)the seventh, for these (G)seventy years, (H)was it (I)for me that you fasted?
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Esther 4:16
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16 “Go, gather all the Jews to be found in Susa, and hold a fast on my behalf, and do not eat or drink for (A)three days, night or day. I and my young women will also fast as you do. Then I will go to the king, though it is against the law, (B)and if I perish, I perish.”[a]
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- Esther 4:16 Hebrew if I am destroyed, then I will be destroyed
2 Samuel 12:16
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16 David therefore sought God on behalf of the child. And David (A)fasted and went in (B)and lay all night on the ground.
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Acts 13:2-3
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Psalm 109:24
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1 Kings 21:27
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27 And when Ahab heard those words, he (A)tore his clothes and (B)put sackcloth on his flesh and (C)fasted and lay in sackcloth and went about dejectedly.
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2 Corinthians 11:27
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27 (A)in toil and hardship, through many a sleepless night, (B)in hunger and thirst, often without food,[a] in cold and exposure.
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- 2 Corinthians 11:27 Or often in fasting
1 Corinthians 7:5
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5 (A)Do not deprive one another, except perhaps by agreement for a limited time, that you may devote yourselves to prayer; but then come together again, (B)so that Satan may not tempt you because of your lack of self-control.
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Luke 2:37
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37 and then as a widow until she was eighty-four.[a] She did not depart from the temple, (A)worshiping with (B)fasting and prayer night and day.
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- Luke 2:37 Or as a widow for eighty-four years
Malachi 3:14
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14 You have said, (A)‘It is vain to serve God. (B)What is the profit of our keeping his charge or of walking as in mourning before the Lord of hosts?
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2 Samuel 12:21
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21 Then his servants said to him, “What is this thing that you have done? You fasted and wept for the child while he was alive; but when the child died, you arose and ate food.”
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2 Corinthians 6:5
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5 (A)beatings, imprisonments, (B)riots, labors, sleepless nights, hunger;
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Acts 10:30
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30 And Cornelius said, (A)“Four days ago, about this hour, I was praying in my house at (B)the ninth hour,[a] and behold, (C)a man stood before me in bright clothing
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- Acts 10:30 That is, 3 p.m.
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