Matthew 6:16

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Summary

Moreover when ye fast, be not, as the hypocrites, of a sad countenance: for they disfigure their faces, that they may appear unto men to fast. Verily I say unto you, They have their reward.

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Matthew 6:2

Mark 2:18

Luke 18:12

Bible References

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Then the disciples of John came up to him and said, "Why is it that we and the Pharisees are keeping the fast, while your disciples are not keeping it?"

and she had been a widow until she was now eighty-four. She never left the Temple, but worshipped night and day with fasting and prayer.

Cornelius answered, "Three days ago, just at this time of day, I was praying in my house about three o'clock, when a man in dazzling clothing stood before me,

As they were engaged in worshiping the Lord and in fasting, the holy Spirit said, "Set Barnabas and Saul apart for me, for the work to which I have called them."

They appointed elders for them in each church, and with prayer and fasting they committed them to the Lord in whom they had believed.

You must not refuse each other what is due, unless you agree to do so for a while, to devote yourselves to prayer, and then to come together again, so that Satan may not tempt you through your lack of self-control.

beatings, imprisonments, riots, labors, sleepless nights, and hunger,

through toil and hardship, through many a sleepless night, through hunger and thirst, often without food, and exposed to cold.

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So when you are going to give to charity, do not blow a trumpet before yourself, as the hypocrites do, in the synagogues and the streets, to make people praise them. I tell you, that is all the reward they will get!

Now John's disciples and the Pharisees were keeping a fast. And people came and asked him, "Why is it that when John's disciples and the disciples of the Pharisees are keeping the fast, yours are not keeping it?"

I fast two days in the week; I pay tithes on everything I get.'