Luke 18:12
I fast twice per week. I give tithes of all that I get.
Luke 11:42
Woe to you Pharisees! You tithe mint and rue and every herb, and pass over justice and the love of God. You should have done these but you leave them undone.
Matthew 9:14
The disciples of John asked: Why do your disciples not fast? They frequently fasted, and so did the Pharisees.
Malachi 3:8
I ask you: 'will you rob and defraud God? Of course not, yet you are robbing and defrauding me!' 'How have we robbed and defrauded?' You ask. 'In the matter of tithes and offerings.'
Leviticus 27:30-33
One-tenth of what comes from the land, whether grain or fruit, is holy and belongs to Jehovah.
Numbers 18:24
Instead, I will give the Levites what the Israelites contribute to Jehovah, one-tenth of the Israelites' income. This is why I said about them: They will own no property as the other Israelites do.
Numbers 23:4
God met him and Balaam said to God: I have built the seven altars and offered a bull and a ram on each.
1 Samuel 15:13
Samuel went up to Saul. Saul said: Jehovah bless you, Samuel! I have obeyed Jehovah's command.
2 Kings 10:16
He said: Come with me and see how I am on fire with zeal for Jehovah's cause. So he made him go with him in his chariot.
Isaiah 1:15
When you spread out your hands in prayer, I will hide my eyes from you. Even though you offer many prayers, I will not listen because your hands are full of blood.
Isaiah 58:2-3
They seek me day by day. They delight to know my ways like a nation that has done righteousness and has not forsaken the ordinance of their God. They ask me for justice and delight. They are pleased that God is near.
Zechariah 7:5-6
Speak to all the people of the land and to the priests, saying: 'For the past seventy years did you fast for me when you fasted and mourned in the fifth and seventh months?
Matthew 6:1
Be careful! Do not display your righteousness (good works) before men to be noticed by them. If you do, you will have no reward with your heavenly Father.
Matthew 6:5
Do not pray like the hypocrites! They want everyone to see them in the houses of worship and on the street corners. I assure you they have been paid in full.
Matthew 6:16
When you abstain from food, do not be like the hypocrites, with sad faces to be seen by men. They have received their reward.
Matthew 15:7-9
You hypocrites (liars)! Isaiah's prophecy was right about you.
Matthew 23:23-24
Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! You tithe mint and dill and cumin, and have left undone the weightier matters of the law: justice, mercy and faith. You should do both and leave nothing undone.
Luke 17:10
The same applies to you. When you have done all you have been told to do, you say, we are unworthy servants. We have done what we ought to have done.
Romans 3:27
Where is the boasting? It is excluded. Is it by law? Is it by works? No, it is by a principle of faith.
Romans 10:1-3
Brothers, my hearts desire and my prayer to God for Israel is for their salvation.
1 Corinthians 1:29
No human being should boast before God.
Galatians 1:14
I advanced as a Jew beyond many of my own age among my countrymen. I was more exceedingly zealous for the traditions of my fathers.
Ephesians 2:9
It is not the result of works. So no man should boast.
1 Timothy 4:8
Bodily exercise is profitable for a little. However, godliness is profitable for all things, having promise of the life that now is and of the life that is to come.