Thematic Bible: Of hypocrites
Thematic Bible
Fasting » Of hypocrites » Rejected
'Why do we fast, and you do not see [it]? We humiliate our soul, and you do not notice [it]?' Look! You find delight on the day of your fast, and you oppress all your workers!
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Although they fast, I [am] not listening to their cry of entreaty. And although they present burnt offering and grain offering, I [am] not favorable to them. But by the sword, and by the famine, and by the plague, I [am] about to destroy them."
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Fasting » Of hypocrites » Described
Look! You fast to quarrel and strife, and to strike with a {wicked fist}. You shall not fast as [you do] {today}, to {make your voice heard} on the height. Is [the] fast I choose like this, a day for humankind to humiliate {himself}? To bow his head like a reed, and {make} his bed [on] sackcloth and ashes; you call this a fast and a day of pleasure to Yahweh?
Fasting » Of hypocrites » Ostentatious
"Whenever you fast, do not be sullen like the hypocrites, for they make their faces unrecognizable in order that they may be seen fasting by people. Truly I say to you, they have received their reward in full!
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Fasting » Of hypocrites » Boasted of, before God
I fast twice a week; I give a tenth of all that I get.'
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Serpents » Illustrative » Of hypocrites
Serpents! Offspring of vipers! How will you escape from the condemnation to hell?
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