Luke 18:12

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Luke 18:12

I fast twice in the week, I give tithes of all that I possess.

Fast

I give

Matthew 23:23

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Bible References

Fast

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.

And God came to Balaam, and Balaam said to him, I have made ready seven altars, offering an ox and a male sheep on every altar

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.

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.

And when your hands are stretched out to me, my eyes will be turned away from you: even though you go on making prayers, I will not give ear: your hands are full of blood.

Though they make prayer to me every day, and take pleasure in the knowledge of my ways: like a nation which has done righteousness, and has not given up the rules of their God, they make requests to me for the right orders, it is their delight to come near to God.

Say to all the people of the land and to the priests, When you went without food and gave yourselves to grief in the fifth and the seventh months for these seventy years, did you ever do it because of me?

Take care not to do your good works before men, to be seen by them; or you will have no reward from your Father in heaven.

Then the disciples of John came to him, saying, Why do we and the Pharisees frequently go without food, but your disciples do not?

You false ones, well did Isaiah say of you,

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.

Brothers, my heart's desire and my prayer to God for them is, that they may get salvation.

So that no flesh might have glory before God.

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.

Not by works, so that no man may take glory to himself.

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.

I give

But a curse is on you, Pharisees! for you make men give a tenth of every sort of plant, and give no thought to right and the love of God; but it is right for you to do these things, and not let the others be undone.

And every tenth part of the land, of the seed planted, or of the fruit of trees, is holy to the Lord.

For the tenths which the children of Israel give as a lifted offering to the Lord I have given to the Levites as their heritage. and so I have said to them, Among the children of Israel they will have no heritage.

Will a man keep back from God what is right? But you have kept back what is mine. But you say, What have we kept back from you? Tenths and offerings.

A curse is on you, scribes and Pharisees, false ones! for you make men give a tenth of all sorts of sweet-smelling plants, but you give no thought to the more important things of the law, righteousness, and mercy, and faith; but it is right for you to do these, and not to let the others be undone.

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And every tenth part of the land, of the seed planted, or of the fruit of trees, is holy to the Lord.

And he said to him, Master, all these laws I have kept from the time when I was young.

I have come, not to get the upright, but sinners, so that they may be turned from their sins.

And he said, All these things I have done from the time when I was a boy.