Zechariah 7:6
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6 And when you eat and when you drink, do you not eat and drink only for yourselves?
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1 Corinthians 11:20-21
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20 When you come together, it is not really to eat the Lord’s supper. 21 For when the time comes to eat, each of you proceeds to eat your own supper, and one goes hungry and another becomes drunk.
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1 Corinthians 11:26-29
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26 For as often as you eat this bread and drink the cup, you proclaim the Lord’s death until he comes.(A)
Partaking of the Supper Unworthily
27 Whoever, therefore, eats the bread or drinks the cup of the Lord in an unworthy manner will be answerable for the body and blood of the Lord.(B) 28 Examine yourselves, and only then eat of the bread and drink of the cup.(C) 29 For all who eat and drink[a] without discerning the body[b] eat and drink judgment against themselves.
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1 Corinthians 10:31
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31 So, whether you eat or drink or whatever you do, do everything for the glory of God.(A)
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Hosea 8:13
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13 Though they offer choice sacrifices,[a]
though they eat flesh,
the Lord does not accept them.
Now he will remember their iniquity
and punish their sins;
they shall return to Egypt.(A)
Footnotes
- 8.13 Cn: Meaning of Heb uncertain
Colossians 3:17
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17 And whatever you do, in word or deed, do everything in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him.(A)
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Hosea 9:4
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4 They shall not pour drink offerings of wine to the Lord,
and their sacrifices shall not please him.
Such sacrifices shall be like mourners’ bread;
all who eat of it shall be defiled,
for their bread shall be for their hunger only;
it shall not come to the house of the Lord.(A)
Jeremiah 17:9-10
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9 The heart is devious above all else;
it is perverse—
who can understand it?(A)
10 I the Lord test the mind
and search the heart,
to give to all according to their ways,
according to the fruit of their doings.(B)
1 Chronicles 29:22
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22 and they ate and drank before the Lord on that day with great joy.
Solomon Anointed King
They made David’s son Solomon king a second time; they anointed him as the Lord’s prince and Zadok as priest.(A)
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1 Samuel 16:7
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7 But the Lord said to Samuel, “Do not look on his appearance or on the height of his stature, because I have rejected him, for the Lord does not see as mortals see; they look on the outward appearance, but the Lord looks on the heart.”(A)
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Deuteronomy 14:26
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26 spend the money for whatever you wish: oxen, sheep, wine, strong drink, or whatever you desire. And you shall eat there in the presence of the Lord your God, you and your household rejoicing together.(A)
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Deuteronomy 12:7
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7 And you shall eat there in the presence of the Lord your God, you and your households together, rejoicing in all the undertakings in which the Lord your God has blessed you.(A)
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