Matthew 9:15
Jesus said to them, “Can the friends of the bridegroom mourn as long as the bridegroom is with them? But the days will come when the bridegroom will be taken away from them, and then they will fast.
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Matthew 9:15
Jesus said to them, “Can the friends of the bridegroom mourn as long as the bridegroom is with them? But the days will come when the bridegroom will be taken away from them, and then they will fast.
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Matthew 9:14
Then John’s disciples came to him, saying, “Why do we and the Pharisees fast often, but your disciples don’t fast?”
Matthew 9:15
Jesus said to them, “Can the friends of the bridegroom mourn as long as the bridegroom is with them? But the days will come when the bridegroom will be taken away from them, and then they will fast.
Matthew 9:16
No one puts a piece of unshrunk cloth on an old garment; for the patch would tear away from the garment, and a worse hole is made.
Matthew 9:17
Neither do people put new wine into old wine skins, or else the skins would burst, and the wine be spilled, and the skins ruined. No, they put new wine into fresh wine skins, and both are preserved.”
Mark 2:18
John’s disciples and the Pharisees were fasting, and they came and asked him, “Why do John’s disciples and the disciples of the Pharisees fast, but your disciples don’t fast?”
Mark 2:19
Jesus said to them, “Can the groomsmen fast while the bridegroom is with them? As long as they have the bridegroom with them, they can’t fast.
Mark 2:20
But the days will come when the bridegroom will be taken away from them, and then they will fast in that day.
Mark 2:21
No one sews a piece of unshrunk cloth on an old garment, or else the patch shrinks and the new tears away from the old, and a worse hole is made.
Mark 2:22
No one puts new wine into old wineskins; or else the new wine will burst the skins, and the wine pours out, and the skins will be destroyed; but they put new wine into fresh wineskins.”
Luke 5:33
They said to him, “Why do John’s disciples often fast and pray, likewise also the disciples of the Pharisees, but yours eat and drink?”
Luke 5:34
He said to them, “Can you make the friends of the bridegroom fast while the bridegroom is with them?
Luke 5:35
But the days will come when the bridegroom will be taken away from them. Then they will fast in those days.”
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John 3:29
He who has the bride is the bridegroom; but the friend of the bridegroom, who stands and hears him, rejoices greatly because of the bridegroom’s voice. Therefore my joy is made full.
Matthew 25:1
“Then the Kingdom of Heaven will be like ten virgins who took their lamps and went out to meet the bridegroom.
Judges 14:10
His father went down to the woman; and Samson made a feast there, for the young men used to do so.
Judges 14:11
When they saw him, they brought thirty companions to be with him.
Revelation 21:2
I saw the holy city, New Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared like a bride adorned for her husband.
Matthew 22:2
“The Kingdom of Heaven is like a certain king, who made a wedding feast for his son,
Matthew 25:5
Now while the bridegroom delayed, they all slumbered and slept.
Matthew 25:6
But at midnight there was a cry, ‘Behold! The bridegroom is coming! Come out to meet him!’
Revelation 19:7
Let’s rejoice and be exceedingly glad, and let’s give the glory to him. For the wedding of the Lamb has come, and his wife has made herself ready.”
Isaiah 54:5
For your Maker is your husband; Yahweh of Armies is his name. The Holy One of Israel is your Redeemer. He will be called the God of the whole earth.
Judges 14:20
But Samson’s wife was given to his companion, who had been his friend.
Psalms 45:14
She shall be led to the king in embroidered work. The virgins, her companions who follow her, shall be brought to you.
Song of Solomon 3:11
Go out, you daughters of Zion, and see king Solomon, with the crown with which his mother has crowned him, in the day of his weddings, in the day of the gladness of his heart.
Matthew 25:10
While they went away to buy, the bridegroom came, and those who were ready went in with him to the wedding feast, and the door was shut.
Revelation 19:9
He said to me, “Write, ‘Blessed are those who are invited to the wedding supper of the Lamb.’ ” He said to me, “These are true words of God.”
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Acts 14:23
When they had appointed elders for them in every assembly, and had prayed with fasting, they commended them to the Lord on whom they had believed.
2 Corinthians 11:27
in labor and travail, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, and in cold and nakedness.
Acts 13:2
As they served the Lord and fasted, the Holy Spirit said, “Separate Barnabas and Saul for me, for the work to which I have called them.”
Acts 13:3
Then, when they had fasted and prayed and laid their hands on them, they sent them away.
1 Corinthians 7:5
Don’t deprive one another, unless it is by consent for a season, that you may give yourselves to fasting and prayer, and may be together again, that Satan doesn’t tempt you because of your lack of self-control.
Psalms 35:13
But as for me, when they were sick, my clothing was sackcloth. I afflicted my soul with fasting. My prayer returned into my own bosom.
2 Corinthians 6:5
in beatings, in imprisonments, in riots, in labors, in watchings, in fastings,
Matthew 6:16
“Moreover when you fast, don’t be like the hypocrites, with sad faces. For they disfigure their faces that they may be seen by men to be fasting. Most certainly I tell you, they have received their reward.
Psalms 69:10
When I wept and I fasted, that was to my reproach.
Nehemiah 1:4
When I heard these words, I sat down and wept, and mourned several days; and I fasted and prayed before the God of heaven,
Psalms 43:2
For you are the God of my strength. Why have you rejected me? Why do I go mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?
Daniel 9:3
I set my face to the Lord God, to seek by prayer and petitions, with fasting and sackcloth and ashes.
Luke 2:37
and she had been a widow for about eighty-four years), who didn’t depart from the temple, worshiping with fastings and petitions night and day.
Acts 10:30
Cornelius said, “Four days ago, I was fasting until this hour; and at the ninth hour, I prayed in my house, and behold, a man stood before me in bright clothing
James 4:9
Lament, mourn, and weep. Let your laughter be turned to mourning and your joy to gloom.
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Ecclesiastes 3:4
a time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance;
John 16:20
Most certainly I tell you that you will weep and lament, but the world will rejoice. You will be sorrowful, but your sorrow will be turned into joy.
John 16:21
A woman, when she gives birth, has sorrow because her time has come. But when she has delivered the child, she doesn’t remember the anguish any more, for the joy that a human being is born into the world.
John 16:22
Therefore you now have sorrow, but I will see you again, and your heart will rejoice, and no one will take your joy away from you.
Mark 16:10
She went and told those who had been with him, as they mourned and wept.
Luke 15:25
“Now his elder son was in the field. As he came near to the house, he heard music and dancing.
Luke 24:17
He said to them, “What are you talking about as you walk, and are sad?”
John 16:6
But because I have told you these things, sorrow has filled your heart.
James 5:13
Is any among you suffering? Let him pray. Is any cheerful? Let him sing praises.
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Isaiah 58:3
‘Why have we fasted,’ they say, ‘and you don’t see? Why have we afflicted our soul, and you don’t notice?’ “Behold, in the day of your fast you find pleasure, and oppress all your laborers.
Zechariah 7:5
“Speak to all the people of the land and to the priests, saying, ‘When you fasted and mourned in the fifth and in the seventh month for these seventy years, did you at all fast to me, really to me?
Isaiah 22:12
In that day, the Lord, Yahweh of Armies, called to weeping, to mourning, to baldness, and to dressing in sackcloth;
Isaiah 58:5
Is this the fast that I have chosen? A day for a man to humble his soul? Is it to bow down his head like a reed, and to spread sackcloth and ashes under himself? Will you call this a fast, and an acceptable day to Yahweh?
Jeremiah 14:12
When they fast, I will not hear their cry; and when they offer burnt offering and meal offering, I will not accept them; but I will consume them by the sword, by famine, and by pestilence.”
Zechariah 7:3
and to speak to the priests of the house of Yahweh of Armies and to the prophets, saying, “Should I weep in the fifth month, separating myself, as I have done these so many years?”
Zechariah 8:19
Yahweh of Armies says: “The fasts of the fourth, fifth, seventh, and tenth months shall be for the house of Judah joy, gladness, and cheerful feasts. Therefore love truth and peace.”
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Matthew 12:40
For as Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of the huge fish, so will the Son of Man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.
Matthew 16:21
From that time, Jesus began to show his disciples that he must go to Jerusalem and suffer many things from the elders, chief priests, and scribes, and be killed, and the third day be raised up.
John 2:19
Jesus answered them, “Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up.”
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Isaiah 62:5
For as a young man marries a virgin, so your sons will marry you. As a bridegroom rejoices over his bride, so your God will rejoice over you.
2 Corinthians 11:2
For I am jealous over you with a godly jealousy. For I promised you in marriage to one husband, that I might present you as a pure virgin to Christ.
Revelation 21:9
One of the seven angels who had the seven bowls which were loaded with the seven last plagues came, and he spoke with me, saying, “Come here. I will show you the bride, the Lamb’s wife.”
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Luke 17:22
He said to the disciples, “The days will come when you will desire to see one of the days of the Son of Man, and you will not see it.
John 16:4
But I have told you these things so that when the time comes, you may remember that I told you about them. I didn’t tell you these things from the beginning, because I was with you.
John 17:12
While I was with them in the world, I kept them in your name. I have kept those whom you have given me. None of them is lost except the son of destruction, that the Scripture might be fulfilled.
Matthew 5:10
Blessed are those who have been persecuted for righteousness’ sake, for theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven.
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Matthew 10:38
He who doesn’t take his cross and follow after me isn’t worthy of me.
Matthew 11:16
“But to what shall I compare this generation? It is like children sitting in the marketplaces, who call to their companions
Matthew 11:17
and say, ‘We played the flute for you, and you didn’t dance. We mourned for you, and you didn’t lament.’
Matthew 11:18
For John came neither eating nor drinking, and they say, ‘He has a demon.’
Matthew 11:19
The Son of Man came eating and drinking, and they say, ‘Behold, a gluttonous man and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners!’ But wisdom is justified by her children.”
Matthew 10:16
“Behold, I send you out as sheep among wolves. Therefore be wise as serpents and harmless as doves.
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Matthew 7:24
“Everyone therefore who hears these words of mine and does them, I will liken him to a wise man who built his house on a rock.
Matthew 7:25
The rain came down, the floods came, and the winds blew and beat on that house; and it didn’t fall, for it was founded on the rock.
Matthew 7:26
Everyone who hears these words of mine and doesn’t do them will be like a foolish man who built his house on the sand.
Matthew 7:27
The rain came down, the floods came, and the winds blew and beat on that house; and it fell—and its fall was great.”
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Acts 3:25
You are the children of the prophets, and of the covenant which God made with our fathers, saying to Abraham, ‘All the families of the earth will be blessed through your offspring.’
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