Isaiah 58:1
True and False Fasting
1 “Cry aloud; do not hold back;alift up your voice like a trumpet;
bdeclare to my people their transgression,
to the house of Jacob their sins.
Ezekiel 16:2
2 c“Son of man, dmake known to Jerusalem her abominations,Ezekiel 20:4
4 eWill you judge them, son of man, will you judge them? fLet them know the abominations of their fathers,Ezekiel 22:2
2“And you, gson of man, hwill you judge, will you judge ithe bloody city? jThen declare to her all her abominations.Ezekiel 43:10
10“As for you, kson of man, ldescribe to the house of Israel the temple, that they may be ashamed of their iniquities; and they shall measure the plan.Matthew 3:7-12
7But when he saw many of mthe Pharisees and nSadducees coming to his baptism, he said to them, o“You brood of pvipers! Who warned you to flee from qthe wrath to come? 8Bear fruit rin keeping with repentance. 9And do not presume to say to yourselves, s‘We have Abraham as our father,’ for I tell you, God is able from tthese stones to raise up children for Abraham. 10Even now the axe is laid to the root of the trees. uEvery tree therefore that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire.11 v“I baptize you with water wfor repentance, but xhe who is coming after me is mightier than I, whose sandals I am not worthy to carry. He will baptize you ywith the Holy Spirit and zfire. 12His aawinnowing fork is in his hand, and he will clear his threshing floor and abgather his wheat into the barn, acbut the chaff he will burn with adunquenchable fire.”
Acts 7:51-52
51 ae“You stiff-necked people, afuncircumcised in heart and ears, you always resist the Holy Spirit. agAs your fathers did, so do you. 52 ahWhich of the prophets did your fathers not persecute? And they killed those who announced beforehand the coming of aithe Righteous One, ajwhom you have now betrayed and murdered,
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