I fast twice a week and pay tithes of all that I acquire.’
Woe to you Pharisees! For you pay tithes of mint, rue, and every herb, but you disregard justice and the love of God. Yo
Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You pay tithes of mint, dill, and cumin. But you have disregarded the
Then John’s disciples came to Jesus and asked, “Why is it that we and the Pharisees fast so often, but Your disciples do
So you also, when you have done everything commanded of you, should say, ‘We are unworthy servants; we have only done ou
“Be careful not to perform your righteous acts before men to be seen by them. If you do, you will have no reward from yo
For physical exercise is of limited value, but godliness is valuable in every way, holding promise for the present life
You hypocrites! Isaiah prophesied correctly about you:
Will a man rob God? Yet you are robbing Me! But you ask, ‘How do we rob You?’ In tithes and offerings.
For day after day they seek Me and delight to know My ways, like a nation that does what is right and does not forsake t
and God met with him. “I have set up seven altars,” Balaam said, “and on each altar I have offered a bull and a ram.”
When you spread out your hands in prayer, I will hide My eyes from you; even though you multiply your prayers, I will no
saying, “Come with me and see my zeal for the LORD!” So he had him ride in his chariot.
When Samuel reached him, Saul said to him, “May the LORD bless you. I have carried out the LORD’s instructions.”
For I have given to the Levites as their inheritance the tithe that the Israelites present to the LORD as a contribution
Brothers, my heart’s desire and prayer to God for the Israelites is for their salvation.
Thus any tithe from the land, whether from the seed of the land or the fruit of the trees, belongs to the LORD; it is ho
I was advancing in Judaism beyond many of my contemporaries and was extremely zealous for the traditions of my fathers.
so that no one may boast in His presence.
not by works, so that no one can boast.
And when you pray, do not be like the hypocrites. For they love to pray standing in the synagogues and on the street cor
“Ask all the people of the land and the priests, ‘When you fasted and mourned in the fifth and seventh months for these
Where, then, is boasting? It is excluded. On what principle? On that of works? No, but on that of faith.
When you fast, do not be somber like the hypocrites, for they disfigure their faces to show men they are fasting. Truly