Thematic Bible: Of hypocrites
Thematic Bible
Fasting » Of hypocrites » Rejected
They say, Why have we kept ourselves from food, and you do not see it? why have we kept ourselves from pleasure, and you take no note of it? If, in the days when you keep from food, you take the chance to do your business, and get in your debts;
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When they go without food, I will not give ear to their cry; when they give burned offerings and meal offerings, I will not take pleasure in them: but I will put an end to them by the sword and by need of food and by disease.
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Fasting » Of hypocrites » Described
If keeping from food makes you quickly angry, ready for fighting and giving blows with evil hands; your holy days are not such as to make your voice come to my ears on high. Have I given orders for such a day as this? a day for keeping yourselves from pleasure? is it only a question of the bent head, of putting on haircloth, and being seated in the dust? is this what seems to you a holy day, well-pleasing to the Lord?
Fasting » Of hypocrites » Ostentatious
And when you go without food, be not sad-faced as the false-hearted are. For they go about with changed looks, so that men may see that they are going without food. Truly I say to you, They have their reward.
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Fasting » Of hypocrites » Boasted of, before God
Twice in the week I go without food; I give a tenth of all I have.
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Serpents » Illustrative » Of hypocrites
You snakes, offspring of snakes, how will you be kept from the punishment of hell?
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