Zechariah 7:6
And when you are feasting and drinking, are you not doing it only for yourselves?
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Zechariah 7:6
And when you are feasting and drinking, are you not doing it only for yourselves?
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Exodus 12:14
And this day is to be kept in your memories: you are to keep it as a feast to the Lord through all your generations, as an order for ever.
Exodus 12:42
It is a watch-night before the Lord who took them out of the land of Egypt: this same night is a watch-night to the Lord for all the children of Israel, through all their generations.
Exodus 16:25
And Moses said, Make your meal today of what you have, for this day is a Sabbath to the Lord: today you will not get any in the fields.
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Leviticus 23:27
The tenth day of this seventh month is the day for the taking away of sin; let it be a holy day of worship; you are to keep from pleasure, and give to the Lord an offering made by fire.
2 Chronicles 20:3
Then Jehoshaphat, in his fear, went to the Lord for directions, and gave orders all through Judah for the people to go without food.
Nehemiah 9:1
Now on the twenty-fourth day of this month the children of Israel came together, taking no food and putting haircloth and dust on their bodies.
Esther 4:16
Go, get together all the Jews who are present in Shushan, and go without food for me, taking no food or drink night or day for three days: and I and my women will do the same; and so I will go in to the king, which is against the law: and if death is to be my fate, then let it come.
Isaiah 58:1
Make a loud cry, do not be quiet, let your voice be sounding like a horn, and make clear to my people their evil doings, and to the family of Jacob their sins.
Jeremiah 36:9
Now it came about in the fifth year of Jehoiakim, the son of Josiah, king of Judah, in the ninth month, that it was given out publicly that all the people in Jerusalem, and all the people who came from the towns of Judah to Jerusalem, were to keep from food before the Lord.
Joel 1:13
Put haircloth round you and give yourselves to sorrow, you priests; give cries of grief, you servants of the altar: come in, and, clothed in haircloth, let the night go past, you servants of my God: for the meal offering and the drink offering have been kept back from the house of your God.
Joel 2:13
Let your hearts be broken, and not your clothing, and come back to the Lord your God: for he is full of grace and pity, slow to be angry and great in mercy, ready to be turned from his purpose of punishment.
Joel 2:14
May it not be that he will again let his purpose be changed and let a blessing come after him, even a meal offering and a drink offering for the Lord your God?
Joel 2:15
Let a horn be sounded in Zion, let a time be fixed for going without food, have a holy meeting:
Joel 2:16
Get the people together, make the mass of the people holy, send for the old men, get together the children and babies at the breast: let the newly married man come out of his room and the bride from her tent.
Joel 2:17
Let the priests, the servants of the Lord, be weeping between the covered way and the altar, and let them say, Have mercy on your people, O Lord, do not give up your heritage to shame, so that the nations become their rulers: why let them say among the peoples, Where is their God?
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Deuteronomy 12:18
But they will be your food before the Lord your God in the place of his selection, where you may make a feast of them, with your son and your daughter, and your man-servant and your woman-servant, and the Levite who is living with you: and you will have joy before the Lord your God in everything to which you put your hand.
Nehemiah 8:16
And the people went out and got them and made themselves tents, every one on the roof of his house, and in the open spaces and in the open squares of the house of God, and in the wide place of the water-doorway, and the wide place of the doorway of Ephraim.
Nehemiah 8:17
All the people who had been prisoners and had come back, made tents and were living in them: for from the time of Jeshua, the son of Nun, till that day, the children of Israel had not done so. And there was very great joy.
Nehemiah 8:18
And day by day, from the first day till the last, he was reading from the book of the law of God. And they kept the feast for seven days: and on the eighth day there was a holy meeting, as it is ordered in the law.
1 Corinthians 7:34
And the wife is not the same as the virgin. The virgin gives her mind to the things of the Lord, so that she may be holy in body and in spirit: but the married woman takes thought for the things of the world, how she may give pleasure to her husband.
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Nehemiah 8:10
Then he said to them, Go away now, and take the fat for your food and the sweet for your drink, and send some to him for whom nothing is made ready: for this day is holy to our Lord: and let there be no grief in your hearts; for the joy of the Lord is your strong place.
Proverbs 21:4
A high look and a heart of pride, ***of the evil-doer is sin.
Zechariah 14:21
And every pot in Jerusalem and in Judah will be holy to the Lord of armies: and all those who make offerings will come and take them for boiling their offerings: in that day there will be no more traders in the house of the Lord of armies.
Matthew 5:8
Happy are the clean in heart: for they will see God.
Luke 11:41
But if you give to the poor such things as you are able, then all things are clean to you.
Romans 14:18
And he who in these things is Christ's servant, is pleasing to God and has the approval of men.
Romans 14:23
But he who is in doubt is judged if he takes food, because he does it not in faith; and whatever is not of faith is sin.
1 Timothy 4:3
Who keep men from being married and from taking food which God made to be taken with praise by those who have faith and true knowledge.
1 Timothy 4:4
Because everything which God has made is good, and nothing is evil, if it is taken with praise:
1 Timothy 4:5
For it is made holy by the word of God and by prayer.
1 Timothy 4:8
For the training of the body is of profit for a little, but religion is of profit in every way, giving hope for the life which now is, and for that which is to come.
Titus 1:15
To the clean in heart all things are clean: but to those who are unclean and without faith nothing is clean; they become unclean in mind and in thought.
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Proverbs 15:24
Acting wisely is the way of life, guiding a man away from the underworld.
Romans 8:6
For the mind of the flesh is death, but the mind of the Spirit is life and peace:
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Proverbs 15:8
The offering of the evil-doer is disgusting to the Lord, but the prayer of the upright man is his delight.
Proverbs 17:1
Better a bit of dry bread in peace, than a house full of feasting and violent behaviour.
Proverbs 21:3
To do what is right and true is more pleasing to the Lord than an offering.
Isaiah 43:23
You have not made me burned offerings of sheep, or given me honour with your offerings of beasts; I did not make you servants to give me an offering, and I did not make you tired with requests for perfumes.
Jeremiah 7:9
Will you take the goods of others, put men to death, and be untrue to your wives, and take false oaths, and have perfumes burned to the Baal, and go after other gods which are strange to you;
Jeremiah 7:10
And come and take your place before me in this house, which is named by my name, and say, We have been made safe; so that you may do all these disgusting things?
Jeremiah 7:11
Has this house, which is named by my name, become a hole of thieves to you? Truly I, even I, have seen it, says the Lord.
Jeremiah 7:21
These are the words of the Lord of armies, the God of Israel: Put your burned offerings with your offerings of beasts, and take flesh for your food.
Jeremiah 7:22
For I said nothing to your fathers, and gave them no orders, on the day when I took them out of Egypt, about burned offerings or offerings of beasts:
Amos 5:23
Take away from me the noise of your songs; my ears are shut to the melody of your instruments.
Micah 3:11
Its heads take rewards for judging, and the priests take payment for teaching, and the prophets get silver for reading the future: but still, supporting themselves on the Lord, they say, Is not the Lord among us? no evil will overtake us.
John 18:28
So they took Jesus from the house of Caiaphas to the Praetorium. It was early. They themselves did not go into the Praetorium, so that they might not become unclean, but might take the Passover.
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Isaiah 57:3
But come near, you sons of her who is wise in secret arts, the seed of her who is false to her husband, and of the loose woman.
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Isaiah 57:4
Of whom do you make sport? against whom is your mouth open wide and your tongue put out? are you not uncontrolled children, a false seed,
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1 Samuel 20:24
So David went to a secret place in the country: and when the new moon came, the king took his place at the feast.
Psalms 50:16
But to the sinner, God says, What are you doing, talking of my laws, or taking the words of my agreement in your mouth?
Psalms 50:17
Seeing that you have no desire for my teaching, turning your back on my words.
Psalms 50:18
When you saw a thief, you were in agreement with him, and you were joined with those who took other men's wives.
Psalms 50:19
You have given your mouth to evil, your tongue to words of deceit.
Psalms 50:20
You say evil of your brother; you make false statements against your mother's son.
Psalms 50:21
These things have you done, and I said nothing; it seemed to you that I was such a one as yourself; but I will make a protest against you, and put them in order before your eyes.
Proverbs 4:17
The bread of evil-doing is their food, the wine of violent acts their drink.
Proverbs 15:17
Better is a simple meal where love is, than a fat ox and hate with it.
Isaiah 66:3
He who puts an ox to death puts a man to death; he who makes an offering of a lamb puts a dog to death; he who makes a meal offering makes an offering of pig's blood; he who makes an offering of perfumes for a sign gives worship to an image: as they have gone after their desires, and their soul takes pleasure in their disgusting things;
Hosea 9:4
They will give no wine offering to the Lord, they will not make offerings ready for him; their bread will be like the bread of those in sorrow; all who take it will be unclean, because their bread will be only for their desire, it will not come into the house of the Lord.
Malachi 2:13
And this again you do: covering the altar of the Lord with weeping and with grief, so that he gives no more thought to the offering, and does not take it with pleasure from your hand.
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Isaiah 57:6
Among the smooth stones of the valley is your heritage; they, even they, are your part: even to them have you made a drink offering and a meal offering. Is it possible for such things to be overlooked by me?
Jeremiah 7:23
But this was the order I gave them, saying, Give ear to my voice, and I will be your God, and you will be my people: go in all the way ordered by me, so that all may be well for you.
Jeremiah 7:24
But they took no note and did not give ear, but were guided by the thoughts and the pride of their evil hearts, going back and not forward.
Jeremiah 14:12
When they go without food, I will not give ear to their cry; when they give burned offerings and meal offerings, I will not take pleasure in them: but I will put an end to them by the sword and by need of food and by disease.
Hosea 5:6
They will go, with their flocks and their herds, in search of the Lord, but they will not see him; he has taken himself out of their view.
Micah 3:9
Then give ear to this, you heads of the children of Jacob, you rulers of the children of Israel, hating what is right, twisting what is straight.
Micah 3:10
They are building up Zion with blood, and Jerusalem with evil-doing.
Malachi 1:13
And you say, See, what a weariness it is! and you let out your breath at it, says the Lord of armies; and you have given what has been cut about by beasts, and what is damaged in its feet and ill; this is the offering you give: will this be pleasing to me from your hands? says the Lord.
Matthew 11:30
For my yoke is good, and the weight I take up is not hard.
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Daniel 9:3
And turning my face to the Lord God, I gave myself up to prayer, requesting his grace, going without food, in haircloth and dust.
Daniel 9:13
As it was recorded in the law of Moses, all this evil has come on us: but we have made no prayer for grace from the Lord our God that we might be turned from our evil doings and come to true wisdom.
Jonah 3:5
And the people of Nineveh had belief in God; and a time was fixed for going without food, and they put on haircloth, from the greatest to the least.
Zechariah 7:1
And it came about in the fourth year of King Darius, that the word of the Lord came to Zechariah on the fourth day of the ninth month, the month Chislev.
Zechariah 7:3
And to say to the priests of the house of the Lord of armies and to the prophets, Am I to go on weeping in the fifth month, separating myself as I have done in past years?
Zechariah 8:19
This is what the Lord of armies has said: The times of going without food in the fourth month and in the fifth and the seventh and the tenth months, will be for the people of Judah times of joy and happy meetings; so be lovers of good faith and of peace.
Zechariah 8:23
This is what the Lord of armies has said: In those days, ten men from all the languages of the nations will put out their hands and take a grip of the skirt of him who is a Jew, saying, We will go with you, for it has come to our ears that God is with you.
James 4:9
Be troubled, with sorrow and weeping; let your laughing be turned to sorrow and your joy to grief.
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Nahum 1:15
See on the mountains the feet of him who comes with good news, giving word of peace! Keep your feasts, O Judah, give effect to your oaths: for the good-for-nothing man will never again go through you; he is completely cut off.
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Haggai 2:13
Then Haggai said, Will any of these be made unclean by the touch of one who is unclean through touching a dead body? And the priests answering said, It will be made unclean.
Matthew 15:18
But the things which come out of the mouth come from the heart; and they make a man unclean.
Romans 14:20
Do not let the work of God come to nothing on account of food. All things are certainly clean; but it is evil for that man who by taking food makes it hard for another.
1 Corinthians 8:8
But God's approval of us is not based on the food we take: if we do not take it we are no worse for it; and if we take it we are no better.
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Zechariah 7:11
But they would not give attention, turning their backs and stopping their ears from hearing;
Zechariah 7:12
And they made their hearts like the hardest stone, so that they might not give ear to the law and the words which the Lord of armies had said by the earlier prophets: and there came great wrath from the Lord of armies.
Zechariah 7:14
But with a storm-wind I sent them in flight among all the nations of whom they had no knowledge. So the land was waste after them, so that no man went through or came back: for they had made waste the desired land.
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Matthew 5:46
For if you have love for those who have love for you, what credit is it to you? do not the tax-farmers the same?
Matthew 6:3
But when you give money, let not your left hand see what your right hand does:
Matthew 6:4
So that your giving may be in secret; and your Father, who sees in secret, will give you your reward.
Matthew 6:17
But when you go without food, put oil on your head and make your face clean;
Matthew 6:18
So that no one may see that you are going without food, but your Father in secret; and your Father, who sees in secret, will give you your reward.
Luke 6:32
If you have love for those who have love for you, what credit is it to you? for even sinners have love for those who have love for them.
Luke 6:33
And if you do good to those who do good to you, what credit is it to you? for even sinners do the same.
Luke 6:34
And if you let those have the use of your money, from whom you are hoping to get it back, what credit is it to you? even sinners do so to sinners, hoping to get back as much as they gave.
Luke 6:35
But be loving to those who are against you and do them good, and give them your money, not giving up hope, and your reward will be great and you will be the sons of the Most High: for he is kind to evil men, and to those who have hard hearts.
Luke 6:36
Be full of pity, even as your Father is full of pity.
Luke 14:12
And he said to the master of the house, When you give a feast, do not send for your friends and your brothers and your family or your neighbours who have wealth, for they may give a feast for you, and so you will get a reward.
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Matthew 9:15
And Jesus said to them, Will the friends of the newly-married man be sad as long as he is with them? But the days will come when he will be taken away from them, and then will they go without food.
Matthew 9:16
And no man puts a bit of new cloth on an old coat, for by pulling away from the old, it makes a worse hole.
Matthew 9:17
And men do not put new wine into old wine-skins; or the skins will be burst and the wine will come out, and the skins are of no more use: but they put new wine into new wine-skins, and so the two will be safe.
Mark 2:19
And Jesus said to them, Will the friends of a newly-married man go without food while he is with them? as long as they have him with them they will not go without food.
Mark 2:20
But the days will come when the husband will be taken away from them, and then they will go without food.
Mark 2:21
No man puts a bit of new cloth on an old coat: or the new, by pulling away from the old, makes a worse hole.
Mark 2:22
And no man puts new wine into old wine-skins: or the skins will be burst by the wine, and the wine and the skins will be wasted: but new wine has to be put into new wine-skins.
Luke 5:33
And they said to him, The disciples of John frequently go without food, and make prayers, and so do the disciples of the Pharisees; but your disciples take food and drink.
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1 Samuel 15:13
And Samuel came to Saul; and Saul said to him, May the blessing of the Lord be with you: I have done what was ordered by the Lord.
2 Kings 10:16
And he said, Come with me and see how I am on fire for the Lord's cause. So he made him go with him in his carriage.
Matthew 15:7
You false ones, well did Isaiah say of you,
Matthew 15:8
These people give me honour with their lips, but their heart is far from me.
Matthew 15:9
But their worship is to no purpose, while they give as their teaching the rules of men.
Matthew 20:12
Saying, These last have done only one hour's work, and you have made them equal to us, who have undergone the hard work of the day and the burning heat.
Matthew 23:5
But all their works they do so as to be seen by men: for they make wide their phylacteries, and the edges of their robes,
Luke 15:29
But he made answer and said to his father, See, all these years I have been your servant, doing your orders in everything: and you never gave me even a young goat so that I might have a feast with my friends:
Luke 17:10
In the same way, when you have done all the things which are given you to do, say, There is no profit in us, for we have only done what we were ordered to do.
Luke 18:9
And he made this story for some people who were certain that they were good, and had a low opinion of others:
Luke 18:10
Two men went up to the Temple for prayer; one a Pharisee, and the other a tax-farmer.
Luke 18:11
The Pharisee, taking up his position, said to himself these words: God, I give you praise because I am not like other men, who take more than their right, who are evil-doers, who are untrue to their wives, or even like this tax-farmer.
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Matthew 20:11
And when they got it, they made a protest against the master of the house,
Luke 17:13
Said, in loud voices, Jesus, Master, have mercy on us.
Acts 9:11
And the Lord said to him, Get up, and go to the street which is named Straight, and make search at the house of Judas for one named Saul of Tarsus: for he is at prayer;
Romans 3:27
What reason, then, is there for pride? It is shut out. By what sort of law? of works? No, but by a law of faith.
Romans 10:1
Brothers, my heart's desire and my prayer to God for them is, that they may get salvation.
Romans 10:2
For I give witness of them that they have a strong desire for God, but not with knowledge.
Romans 10:3
Because, not having knowledge of God's righteousness, and desiring to give effect to their righteousness, they have not put themselves under the righteousness of God.
1 Corinthians 1:29
So that no flesh might have glory before God.
Galatians 1:14
And I went farther in the Jews' religion than a number of my generation among my countrymen, having a more burning interest in the beliefs handed down from my fathers.
Ephesians 2:9
Not by works, so that no man may take glory to himself.
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1 Samuel 16:7
But the Lord said to Samuel, Do not take note of his face or how tall he is, because I will not have him: for the Lord's view is not man's; man takes note of the outer form, but the Lord sees the heart.
Jeremiah 17:9
The heart is a twisted thing, not to be searched out by man: who is able to have knowledge of it?
Jeremiah 17:10
I the Lord am the searcher of the heart, the tester of the thoughts, so that I may give to every man the reward of his ways, in keeping with the fruit of his doings.
1 Corinthians 11:20
But now, when you come together, it is not possible to take the holy meal of the Lord:
1 Corinthians 11:21
For when you take your food, everyone takes his meal before the other; and one has not enough food, and another is the worse for drink.
1 Corinthians 11:26
For whenever you take the bread and the cup you give witness to the Lord's death till he comes.
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Psalms 26:2
Put me in the scales, O Lord, so that I may be tested; let the fire make clean my thoughts and my heart.
Psalms 26:3
For your mercy is before my eyes; and I have gone in the way of your good faith.
Psalms 26:4
I have not taken my seat with foolish persons, and I do not go with false men.
Psalms 26:5
I have been a hater of the band of wrongdoers, and I will not be seated among sinners.
Psalms 26:6
I will make my hands clean from sin; so will I go round your altar, O Lord;
Psalms 26:7
That I may give out the voice of praise, and make public all the wonders which you have done.
Lamentations 3:40
Let us make search and put our ways to the test, turning again to the Lord;
Haggai 1:5
For this cause the Lord of armies has said, Give thought to your ways.
Haggai 1:7
This is what the Lord of armies has said: Give thought to your ways.
1 Corinthians 11:31
But if we were true judges of ourselves, punishment would not come on us.
2 Corinthians 13:5
Make a test of yourselves, if you are in the faith; make certain of yourselves. Or are you not conscious in yourselves that Jesus Christ is in you, if you are truly Christ's?
1 John 3:20
When our heart says that we have done wrong; because God is greater than our heart, and has knowledge of all things.
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Jeremiah 45:5
And as for you, are you looking for great things for yourself? Have no desire for them: for truly I will send evil on all flesh, says the Lord: but your life I will keep safe from attack wherever you go.
Matthew 5:17
Let there be no thought that I have come to put an end to the law or the prophets. I have not come for destruction, but to make complete.
Matthew 5:18
Truly I say to you, Till heaven and earth come to an end, not the smallest letter or part of a letter will in any way be taken from the law, till all things are done.
Romans 14:9
And for this purpose Christ went into death and came back again, that he might be the Lord of the dead and of the living.
1 Corinthians 3:23
And you are Christ's; and Christ is God's.
2 Corinthians 5:15
And that he underwent death for all, so that the living might no longer be living to themselves, but to him who underwent death for them and came back from the dead.
2 Corinthians 5:16
For this reason, from this time forward we have knowledge of no man after the flesh: even if we have had knowledge of Christ after the flesh, we have no longer any such knowledge.
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Galatians 6:4
But let every man make test of his work, and then will his cause for glory be in himself only, and not in his neighbour.
1 John 3:21
My loved ones, if our heart does not say that we have done wrong, we have no fear before him;
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Philippians 1:15
Though some are preaching Christ out of envy and competition, others do it out of a good heart:
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Philippians 1:16
These do it from love, conscious that I am responsible for the cause of the good news:
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Ephesians 5:22
Wives, be under the authority of your husbands, as of the Lord.
Ephesians 6:6
Not only under your master's eye, as pleasers of men; but as servants of Christ, doing the pleasure of God from the heart;
Ephesians 6:7
Doing your work readily, as to the Lord, and not to men:
1 Peter 2:13
Keep all the laws of men because of the Lord; those of the king, who is over all,
1 Peter 2:15
Because it is God's pleasure that foolish and narrow-minded men may be put to shame by your good behaviour:
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John 15:8
Here is my Father's glory, in that you give much fruit and so are my true disciples.
Philippians 1:11
Being full of the fruits of righteousness, which are through Jesus Christ, to the glory and praise of God.
1 Peter 4:11
If anyone has anything to say, let it be as the words of God; if anyone has the desire to be the servant of others, let him do it in the strength which is given by God; so that in all things God may have the glory through Jesus Christ, whose are the glory and the power for ever.
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