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Luc 11:42
“ Woe to you Pharisees, because you give God a tenth of your mint, rue and all other kinds of garden herbs, but you neglect justice and the love of God. You should have practiced the latter without leaving the former undone. (niv)
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Matthieu 9:14
Then John’s disciples came and asked him,“ How is it that we and the Pharisees fast often, but your disciples do not fast?” (niv)
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Matthieu 23:23-24
“ Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You give a tenth of your spices— mint, dill and cumin. But you have neglected the more important matters of the law— justice, mercy and faithfulness. You should have practiced the latter, without neglecting the former.You blind guides! You strain out a gnat but swallow a camel. (niv)
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Luc 17:10
So you also, when you have done everything you were told to do, should say,‘ We are unworthy servants; we have only done our duty.’” (niv)
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Matthieu 15:7-9
You hypocrites! Isaiah was right when he prophesied about you:“‘ These people honor me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me.They worship me in vain; their teachings are merely human rules.’” (niv)
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Malachie 3:8
“ Will a mere mortal rob God? Yet you rob me.“ But you ask,‘ How are we robbing you?’“ In tithes and offerings. (niv)
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Matthieu 6:1
“ Be careful not to practice your righteousness in front of others to be seen by them. If you do, you will have no reward from your Father in heaven. (niv)
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Zacharie 7:5-6
“ Ask all the people of the land and the priests,‘ When you fasted and mourned in the fifth and seventh months for the past seventy years, was it really for me that you fasted?And when you were eating and drinking, were you not just feasting for yourselves? (niv)
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Matthieu 6:5
“ And when you pray, do not be like the hypocrites, for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and on the street corners to be seen by others. Truly I tell you, they have received their reward in full. (niv)
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Romains 3:27
Where, then, is boasting? It is excluded. Because of what law? The law that requires works? No, because of the law that requires faith. (niv)
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Romains 10:1-3
Brothers and sisters, my heart’s desire and prayer to God for the Israelites is that they may be saved.For I can testify about them that they are zealous for God, but their zeal is not based on knowledge.Since they did not know the righteousness of God and sought to establish their own, they did not submit to God’s righteousness. (niv)
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Nombres 18:24
Instead, I give to the Levites as their inheritance the tithes that the Israelites present as an offering to the Lord. That is why I said concerning them:‘ They will have no inheritance among the Israelites.’” (niv)
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1 Corinthiens 1 29
so that no one may boast before him. (niv)
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Esaïe 1:15
When you spread out your hands in prayer, I hide my eyes from you; even when you offer many prayers, I am not listening. Your hands are full of blood! (niv)
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Esaïe 58:2-3
For day after day they seek me out; they seem eager to know my ways, as if they were a nation that does what is right and has not forsaken the commands of its God. They ask me for just decisions and seem eager for God to come near them.‘ Why have we fasted,’ they say,‘ and you have not seen it? Why have we humbled ourselves, and you have not noticed?’“ Yet on the day of your fasting, you do as you please and exploit all your workers. (niv)
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Galates 1:14
I was advancing in Judaism beyond many of my own age among my people and was extremely zealous for the traditions of my fathers. (niv)
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Matthieu 6:16
“ When you fast, do not look somber as the hypocrites do, for they disfigure their faces to show others they are fasting. Truly I tell you, they have received their reward in full. (niv)
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Nombres 23:4
God met with him, and Balaam said,“ I have prepared seven altars, and on each altar I have offered a bull and a ram.” (niv)
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Ephésiens 2:9
not by works, so that no one can boast. (niv)
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Lévitique 27:30-33
“‘ A tithe of everything from the land, whether grain from the soil or fruit from the trees, belongs to the Lord; it is holy to the Lord.Whoever would redeem any of their tithe must add a fifth of the value to it.Every tithe of the herd and flock— every tenth animal that passes under the shepherd’s rod— will be holy to the Lord.No one may pick out the good from the bad or make any substitution. If anyone does make a substitution, both the animal and its substitute become holy and cannot be redeemed.’” (niv)
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2 Rois 10 16
Jehu said,“ Come with me and see my zeal for the Lord.” Then he had him ride along in his chariot. (niv)
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1 Timothée 4 8
For physical training is of some value, but godliness has value for all things, holding promise for both the present life and the life to come. (niv)
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1 Samuel 15 13
When Samuel reached him, Saul said,“ The Lord bless you! I have carried out the Lord’s instructions.” (niv)
