Thematic Bible: Of hypocrites
Thematic Bible
Fasting » Of hypocrites » Rejected
Why have we fasted,' [say they], 'and you don't see? [why] have we afflicted our soul, and you take no knowledge?' "Behold, in the day of your fast you find pleasure, and exact all your labors.
When they fast, I will not hear their cry; and when they offer burnt offering and meal offering, I will not accept them; but I will consume them by the sword, and by the famine, and by the pestilence.
Fasting » Of hypocrites » Described
Behold, you fast for strife and contention, and to strike with the fist of wickedness: you don't fast this day so as to make your voice to be heard on high. Is such the fast that I have chosen? the day for a man to afflict his soul? Is it to bow down his head as a rush, and to spread sackcloth and ashes under him? Will you call this a fast, and an acceptable day to Yahweh?
Fasting » Of hypocrites » Ostentatious
"Moreover when you fast, don't be like the hypocrites, with sad faces. For they disfigure their faces, that they may be seen by men to be fasting. Most certainly I tell you, they have received their reward.
Fasting » Of hypocrites » Boasted of, before God
I fast twice a week. I give tithes of all that I get.'
Serpents » Illustrative » Of hypocrites
You serpents, you offspring of vipers, how will you escape the judgment of Gehenna?