Zechariah 7:5
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?
Zechariah 1:12
Then the Messenger (Angel) of Jehovah said: Jehovah of Hosts, how much longer until you show compassion to Jerusalem and the cities of Judah? You have been angry with them for seventy years.
Isaiah 1:11-12
Jehovah says: What do your many animal sacrifices mean to me? I have had enough of your burnt offerings of rams and enough fat from your fattened calves. I am not pleased with the blood of bulls, lambs, or male goats.
Zechariah 7:3
Therefore speak to the priests of the house of Jehovah of Hosts, and say to the prophets: Should I weep in the fifth month, separating myself, as I have done these many years?
2 Kings 25:23
The captains of the armed forces heard that the king of Babylon had made Gedaliah ruler. They brought their men to Gedaliah at Mizpah. Ishmael, the son of Nethaniah, and Johanan, the son of Kareah, and Seraiah, the son of Tanhumeth the Netophathite, and Jaazaniah, the son of the Maacathite, came with all their men.
Isaiah 58:4-6
You fast for contention and strife and to strike with a wicked fist. You do not fast today to make your voice heard on high.
Jeremiah 25:11
This whole land will be ruined and become a wasteland. These nations will serve the king of Babylon for seventy years.'
Jeremiah 41:1-4
In the seventh month Ishmael son of Nethaniah and grandson of Elishama, a descendant of the royal family and of the king's officers went with ten men to Gedaliah, son of Ahikam, at Mizpah. They ate together at Mizpah.
Zechariah 7:6
Did you eat for yourselves and drink for yourselves?
Zechariah 8:19
Jehovah of Hosts said: The fast of the fourth month, and the fast of the fifth month, the fast of the seventh month, and the fast of the tenth month, will be to the house of Judah joy, gladness, and cheerful feasts. Therefore love truth and peace.
Matthew 5:16-18
Likewise, let your light shine before men, that they may see your good works and give glory to your Father in heaven.
Matthew 6:2
Do not loudly announce it when you give to the poor. The hypocrites do this in the houses of worship and on the streets. They do this to be praised by men. Believe me, they have already been paid in full.
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 23:5
They do everything to be seen by men. For example: they enlarge their scripture cases for their foreheads and lengthen the tassels on their garments.
Romans 14:6-9
He who regards the day regards it to God and he who does not regard the day does not regard it to God. He, who eats, eats to God, for he gives God thanks. He who does not eat does not eat to God and he gives God thanks.
Romans 14:17-18
For the kingdom of God is not food and drink; but righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit.
1 Corinthians 10:31
Whether you eat, or drink, or whatever you do, do everything to the glory of God.
2 Corinthians 5:15
He died for all that those who live should no longer live for themselves, but for him who died for their sakes and rose again.
Colossians 3:23
Whatever you do, work at it without reservation, as to God, and not to men.