Parallel Verses
New American Standard Bible
When you eat and drink,
King James Version
And when ye did eat, and when ye did drink, did not ye eat for yourselves, and drink for yourselves?
Holman Bible
When you eat and drink, don’t you eat and drink simply for yourselves?
International Standard Version
And when you eat and drink, you're eating and drinking for your own benefit, aren't you?
A Conservative Version
And when ye eat, and when ye drink, do ye not eat for yourselves, and drink for yourselves?
American Standard Version
And when ye eat, and when ye drink, do not ye eat for yourselves, and drink for yourselves?
Amplified
When you eat and when you drink, do you not eat for yourselves and do you not drink for yourselves [to satisfy your own needs]?
Bible in Basic English
And when you are feasting and drinking, are you not doing it only for yourselves?
Darby Translation
And when ye ate, and when ye drank, was it not you that were eating and drinking?
Julia Smith Translation
And when ye shall eat, and when ye shall drink, are ye not eating, and are ye not drinking?
King James 2000
And when you did eat, and when you did drink, did not you eat for yourselves, and drink for yourselves?
Lexham Expanded Bible
And when you eat and drink, are you not eating and drinking [for yourselves]?
Modern King James verseion
And when you ate, and when you drank, was it not for you the eaters, and for you, the drinkers?
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
When ye ate also and drank, did ye not eat and drink for your own selves?
NET Bible
And now when you eat and drink, are you not doing so for yourselves?'"
New Heart English Bible
When you eat, and when you drink, do you not eat for yourselves, and drink for yourselves?
The Emphasized Bible
And, when ye used to eat and when ye used to drink, was it not, of your own accord, ye did eat, and, of your own accord, ye did drink?
Webster
And when ye ate, and when ye drank, did ye not eat for yourselves, and drink for yourselves?
World English Bible
When you eat, and when you drink, don't you eat for yourselves, and drink for yourselves?
Youngs Literal Translation
When ye fasted with mourning in the fifth and in the seventh months -- even these seventy years -- did ye keep the fast to Me -- Me? And when ye eat, and when ye drink, is it not ye who are eating, and ye who are drinking?
Themes
Christian ministers » Instances of » Priests and levites
Selfishness » Different forms of » Total disregard of the rights of others
Selfishness » Exemplified » Jews
Social selfishness » Different forms of » Total disregard of the rights of others
Topics
Interlinear
Word Count of 20 Translations in Zechariah 7:6
Verse Info
Context Readings
Disobedience And Fasting
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?
6 When you eat and drink,
Cross References
1 Corinthians 11:20-21
When you come together to one place, this is not to eat the Lord's Supper.
Deuteronomy 12:7
You and your households should eat there before Jehovah your God, and rejoice in all your undertakings that Jehovah your God has blessed.
Deuteronomy 14:26
Use the silver to buy whatever you want: cattle, sheep, goats, wine, liquor-whatever you choose. Then you and your family will eat and enjoy yourselves there in the presence of Jehovah your God.
1 Samuel 16:7
But Jehovah said to Samuel: Do not look at his appearance or at the height of his stature. I have rejected him. God does not see as man sees. Man looks at the outward appearance. Jehovah looks at the heart (inner man).
1 Chronicles 29:22
That day they were very happy as they ate and drank in the presence of Jehovah. For a second time they proclaimed Solomon king. In the name of Jehovah they anointed him as their ruler and Zadok as priest.
Jeremiah 17:9-10
The heart is more deceitful than all else and is desperately corrupt. Who can understand it?
Hosea 8:13
They offer sacrifices to me and eat the meat of sacrifices, but I, Jehovah, do not accept these sacrifices. Now I will remember their wickedness and punish them because of their sins. They will go back to Egypt.
Hosea 9:4
They will not pour wine offerings to Jehovah. Their food will only satisfy their hunger. All who eat it will be defiled. It will not be brought as an offering to Jehovah's Temple.
1 Corinthians 10:31
Whether you eat, or drink, or whatever you do, do everything to the glory of God.
1 Corinthians 11:26-29
For as often as you eat this bread, and drink this cup, you proclaim the Lord's death till he comes.
Colossians 3:17
Whatever you do in word or deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus. Give thanks to God the Father through him.