Isaiah 58:3
"Wherefore have we fasted, say they, and thou seest not? wherefore have we afflicted our soul, and thou takest no knowledge? Behold, in the day of your fast ye find pleasure, and exact all your labours."
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- Luke 18:9
"And he spake this parable unto certain which trusted in themselves that they were righteous, and despised others:"
Read in chapter → - Malachi 3:14
"Ye have said, It is vain to serve God: and what profit is it that we have kept his ordinance, and that we have walked mournfully before the LORD of hosts?"
Read in chapter → - Proverbs 28:9
"He that turneth away his ear from hearing the law, even his prayer shall be abomination."
Read in chapter → - Leviticus 16:29
"And this shall be a statute for ever unto you: that in the seventh month, on the tenth day of the month, ye shall afflict your souls, and do no work at all, whether it be one of your own country, or a stranger that sojourneth among you:"
Read in chapter → - Jonah 3:6
"For word came unto the king of Nineveh, and he arose from his throne, and he laid his robe from him, and covered him with sackcloth, and sat in ashes."
Read in chapter → - Matthew 20:11
"And when they had received it, they murmured against the goodman of the house,"
Read in chapter → - Nehemiah 5:7
"Then I consulted with myself, and I rebuked the nobles, and the rulers, and said unto them, Ye exact usury, every one of his brother. And I set a great assembly against them."
Read in chapter → - Isaiah 47:6
"I was wroth with my people, I have polluted mine inheritance, and given them into thine hand: thou didst shew them no mercy; upon the ancient hast thou very heavily laid thy yoke."
Read in chapter → - Matthew 18:28
"But the same servant went out, and found one of his fellowservants, which owed him an hundred pence: and he laid hands on him, and took him by the throat, saying, Pay me that thou owest."
Read in chapter → - Luke 15:29
"And he answering said to his father, Lo, these many years do I serve thee, neither transgressed I at any time thy commandment: and yet thou never gavest me a kid, that I might make merry with my friends:"
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