Thematic Bible: Of hypocrites
Thematic Bible
Fasting » Of hypocrites » Rejected
'Why have we fasted, and Thou hast not seen? We have afflicted our soul, and Thou knowest not.' Lo, in the day of your fast ye find pleasure, And all your labours ye exact.
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When they fast, I hearken not unto their cry, And when they cause to ascend burnt-offering and present, I accept them not, For by sword, and by famine, And by pestilence, I am consuming them.
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Fasting » Of hypocrites » Described
Lo, for strife and debate ye fast, And to smite with the fist of wickedness, Ye fast not as to -day, To sound in the high place your voice. Like this is the fast that I choose? The day of a man's afflicting his soul? To bow as a reed his head, And sackcloth and ashes spread out? This dost thou call a fast, And a desirable day -- to Jehovah?
Fasting » Of hypocrites » Ostentatious
'And when ye may fast, be ye not as the hypocrites, of sour countenances, for they disfigure their faces, that they may appear to men fasting; verily I say to you, that they have their reward.
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Fasting » Of hypocrites » Boasted of, before God
I fast twice in the week, I give tithes of all things -- as many as I possess.
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Serpents » Illustrative » Of hypocrites
'Serpents! brood of vipers! how may ye escape from the judgment of the gehenna?
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