Zechariah 7:5
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5 “Say to all the people of the land, and to the priests: ‘When you (A)fasted and mourned in the fifth (B)and seventh months (C)during those seventy years, did you really fast (D)for Me—for Me?
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Zechariah 1:12
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The Lord Will Comfort Zion
12 Then the Angel of the Lord answered and said, “O Lord of hosts, (A)how long will You not have mercy on Jerusalem and on the cities of Judah, against which You were angry (B)these seventy years?”
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Isaiah 58:4-6
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4 (A)Indeed you fast for strife and debate,
And to strike with the fist of wickedness.
You will not fast as you do this day,
To make your voice heard on high.
5 Is (B)it a fast that I have chosen,
(C)A day for a man to afflict his soul?
Is it to bow down his head like a bulrush,
And (D)to spread out sackcloth and ashes?
Would you call this a fast,
And an acceptable day to the Lord?
6 “Is this not the fast that I have chosen:
To (E)loose the bonds of wickedness,
(F)To undo the [a]heavy burdens,
(G)To let the oppressed go free,
And that you break every yoke?
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- Isaiah 58:6 Lit. bonds of the yoke
1 Corinthians 10:31
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31 (A)Therefore, whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.
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Romans 14:17-18
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17 (A)for the kingdom of God is not eating and drinking, but righteousness and (B)peace and joy in the Holy Spirit. 18 For he who serves Christ in [a]these things (C)is acceptable to God and approved by men.
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- Romans 14:18 NU this thing
Romans 14:6-9
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6 He who (A)observes the day, observes it to the Lord; [a]and he who does not observe the day, to the Lord he does not observe it. He who eats, eats to the Lord, for (B)he gives God thanks; and he who does not eat, to the Lord he does not eat, and gives God thanks. 7 For (C)none of us lives to himself, and no one dies to himself. 8 For if we (D)live, we live to the Lord; and if we die, we die to the Lord. Therefore, whether we live or die, we are the Lord’s. 9 For (E)to this end Christ died [b]and rose and lived again, that He might be (F)Lord of both the dead and the living.
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- Romans 14:6 NU omits the rest of this sentence.
- Romans 14:9 NU omits and rose
Zechariah 7:3
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3 and to (A)ask the priests who were in the house of the Lord of hosts, and the prophets, saying, “Should I weep in (B)the fifth month and [a]fast as I have done for so many years?”
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- Zechariah 7:3 Lit. consecrate myself
Isaiah 1:11-12
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11 “To what purpose is the multitude of your (A)sacrifices to Me?”
Says the Lord.
“I have had enough of burnt offerings of rams
And the fat of fed cattle.
I do not delight in the blood of bulls,
Or of lambs or goats.
12 “When you come (B)to appear before Me,
Who has required this from your hand,
To trample My courts?
Colossians 3:23
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23 (A)And whatever you do, do it heartily, as to the Lord and not to men,
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2 Corinthians 5:15
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15 and He died for all, (A)that those who live should live no longer for themselves, but for Him who died for them and rose again.
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Matthew 23:5
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5 But all their works they do to (A)be seen by men. They make their phylacteries broad and enlarge the borders of their garments.
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Matthew 6:16
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Fasting to Be Seen Only by God
16 “Moreover, (A)when you fast, do not be like the [a]hypocrites, with a sad countenance. For they disfigure their faces that they may appear to men to be fasting. Assuredly, I say to you, they have their reward.
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- Matthew 6:16 pretenders
Matthew 6:5
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The Model Prayer(A)
5 “And when you pray, you shall not be like the [a]hypocrites. For they love to pray standing in the synagogues and on the corners of the streets, that they may be seen by men. Assuredly, I say to you, they have their reward.
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- Matthew 6:5 pretenders
Matthew 6:2
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2 Therefore, (A)when you do a charitable deed, do not sound a trumpet before you as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may have glory from men. Assuredly, I say to you, they have their reward.
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Matthew 5:16-18
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16 Let your light so shine before men, (A)that they may see your good works and (B)glorify your Father in heaven.
Christ Fulfills the Law
17 (C)“Do not think that I came to destroy the Law or the Prophets. I did not come to destroy but to fulfill. 18 For assuredly, I say to you, (D)till heaven and earth pass away, one [a]jot or one [b]tittle will by no means pass from the law till all is fulfilled.
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- Matthew 5:18 Gr. iota, Heb. yod, the smallest letter
- Matthew 5:18 The smallest stroke in a Heb. letter
Zechariah 8:19
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Zechariah 7:6
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6 (A)When you eat and when you drink, do you not eat and drink for yourselves?
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Jeremiah 41:1-4
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Insurrection Against Gedaliah
41 Now it came to pass in the seventh month (A)that Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, the son of Elishama, of the royal [a]family and of the officers of the king, came with ten men to Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, at (B)Mizpah. And there they ate bread together in Mizpah. 2 Then Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, and the ten men who were with him, arose and (C)struck Gedaliah the son of (D)Ahikam, the son of Shaphan, with the sword, and killed him whom the king of Babylon had made (E)governor over the land. 3 Ishmael also struck down all the Jews who were with him, that is, with Gedaliah at Mizpah, and the Chaldeans who were found there, the men of war.
4 And it happened, on the second day after he had killed Gedaliah, when as yet no one knew it,
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- Jeremiah 41:1 Lit. seed
Jeremiah 25:11
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11 And this whole land shall be a desolation and an astonishment, and these nations shall serve the king of Babylon seventy (A)years.
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2 Kings 25:23
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23 Now when all the (A)captains of the armies, they and their men, heard that the king of Babylon had made Gedaliah governor, they came to Gedaliah at Mizpah—Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, Johanan the son of Careah, Seraiah the son of Tanhumeth the Netophathite, and [a]Jaazaniah the son of a Maachathite, they and their men.
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- 2 Kings 25:23 Jezaniah, Jer. 40:8
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