Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
Behold, ye fast for strife and debate, and to smite with the fist of wickedness: ye shall not fast as ye do this day, to make your voice to be heard on high.
And to smite
Shall not fast as ye do this day
General references
Bible References
Ye fast
Matthew 6:16
When you fast, do not look gloomy like the hypocrites, for they look woebegone to let men see they are fasting; I tell you truly, they do get their reward.
Matthew 23:14
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Luke 20:47
they prey upon the property of widows and offer long unreal prayers. All the heavier will their sentence be!"
John 18:28
Then from the house of Caiaphas they took Jesus to the praetorium. (It was early morning.) They would not enter the praetorium themselves, in case of being ceremonially defiled, for they wanted to eat the passover;
And to smite
Acts 23:1
With a steady look at the Sanhedrin Paul said, "Brothers, I have lived with a perfectly good conscience before God down to the present day."
Philippians 1:14
and my imprisonment has given the majority of the brotherhood greater confidence in the Lord to venture on speaking the word of God without being afraid.
Shall not fast as ye do this day
Matthew 6:16
When you fast, do not look gloomy like the hypocrites, for they look woebegone to let men see they are fasting; I tell you truly, they do get their reward.
General references
James 1:7
that man need not imagine he will get anything from God,