Isa 1:11-12, 58:4-6, Zec 7:6, Mat 5:16-18, 6:2, 5, 16, 23:5, Rom 14:6-9, 17-18 | ESV | STEP | What to me is the multitude of your sacrifices ? says the Lord ; I have had enough of burnt offerings of rams and the fat of well-fed beasts ; I do not delight in the blood of bulls , or of lambs , or of goats .

w[See ver. 1 above]

x ch. 6:1, 16; [John 5:44]

y Ex. 13:9; Deut. 6:8; 11:18

zSee ch. 9:20

aa 1 Cor. 10:30, 31; 1 Tim. 4:3, 4; See Matt. 15:36

ab 2 Cor. 5:15; Gal. 2:20; 1 Pet. 4:2; [1 Cor. 6:19; 1 Thess. 5:10]

ac Phil. 1:20

ad Rev. 1:18; 2:8

aeSee Acts 10:42; Rev. 20:12

af 1 Cor. 8:8

ag[1 Cor. 6:9]

ah Gal. 5:22; [ch. 15:13]

ai[2 Cor. 8:21]

Isaiah 1:11-12

11 ^a“What to me is the multitude of your sacrifices?
says the Lord;
I have had enough of burnt offerings of rams
and the fat of well-fed beasts;
I do not delight in the blood of bulls,
or of lambs, or of goats.
12 “When you come to ^bappear before me,
who has required of you
this trampling of my courts?

Isaiah 58:4-6

4 Behold, you fast only to quarrel and to fight
and to hit with a wicked fist.
Fasting like yours this day
will not make your voice to be heard on high.
5 ^cIs such the fast that I choose,
^da day for a person to humble himself?
Is it to bow down his head like a reed,
and to spread sackcloth and ashes under him?
Will you call this a fast,
and a day acceptable to the Lord?
6 “Is not this the fast that I choose:
^eto loose the bonds of wickedness,
to undo the straps ^fof the yoke,
to let the oppressed ^{▼▼Or bruised} go free,
and to break every yoke?

Zechariah 7:6

6 ^hAnd when you eat and when you drink, do you not eat for yourselves and drink for yourselves?

Matthew 5:16-18

16 In the same way, let your light shine before others, so ⁱthat ^{▼▼Or house. 16Let your light so shine before others that} they may see your good works and ^kgive glory to your Father who is in heaven.

Christ Came to Fulfill the Law

17 ^l“Do not think that I have come to abolish ^mthe Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but ⁿto fulfill them. 18 For truly, I say to you, ^ountil heaven and earth pass away, not an iota, not a dot, will pass from the Law until all is accomplished.

Matthew 6:2

2 ^p“Thus, when you give to the needy, sound no trumpet before you, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may ^qbe praised by others. Truly, I say to you, they have ^rreceived their reward.

Matthew 6:5

The Lord’s Prayer

5 “And when you pray, you must not be like the hypocrites. For they love ^sto stand and pray in the synagogues and at the street corners, that they may be seen by others. ^tTruly, I say to you, they have received their reward.

Matthew 6:16

Fasting

16 “And ^uwhen you fast, do not look gloomy like the hypocrites, for they disfigure their faces that their fasting may be seen by others. ^vTruly, I say to you, they have received their reward.

Matthew 23:5

5 ^wThey do all their deeds ^xto be seen by others. For they make ^ytheir phylacteries broad and ^ztheir fringes long,

Romans 14:6-9

6 The one who observes the day, observes it in honor of the Lord. The one who eats, eats in honor of the Lord, since ^aahe gives thanks to God, while the one who abstains, abstains in honor of the Lord and gives thanks to God. 7 For ^abnone of us lives to himself, and none of us dies to himself. 8 For if we live, we live to the Lord, and if we die, we die to the Lord. So then, ^acwhether we live or whether we die, we are the Lord’s. 9 For to this end Christ ^addied and lived again, that he might be Lord both ^aeof the dead and of the living.

Romans 14:17-18

17 ^afFor the kingdom of God is not a matter of eating and drinking but ^agof righteousness and ^ahpeace and joy in the Holy Spirit. 18 Whoever thus serves Christ is ^aiacceptable to God and approved by men.