pSee Acts 21:20
Matthew 6:1
Giving to the Needy
1“Beware of apracticing your righteousness before other people in order bto be seen by them, for then you will have no reward from your Father who is in heaven.Matthew 6:5
The Lord’s Prayer
5“And when you pray, you must not be like the hypocrites. For they love cto stand and pray in the synagogues and at the street corners, that they may be seen by others. dTruly, I say to you, they have received their reward.Matthew 6:16
Fasting
16“And ewhen you fast, do not look gloomy like the hypocrites, for they disfigure their faces that their fasting may be seen by others. fTruly, I say to you, they have received their reward.Matthew 9:14
A Question About Fasting
14Then gthe disciples of John came to him, saying, h“Why do we and ithe Pharisees fast, ▼▼Some manuscripts add much, or often
but your disciples do not fast?” Matthew 15:7-9
7 kYou hypocrites! Well did Isaiah prophesy of you, when he said:8 l“‘This people honors me with their lips,
but their heart is far from me;
9in vain do they worship me,
teaching as mdoctrines the commandments of men.’”
Romans 3:27
27 nThen what becomes of our boasting? It is excluded. By what kind of law? By a law of works? No, but by the law of faith.Romans 10:1-3
1Brothers, ▼▼Or Brothers and sisters
my heart’s desire and prayer to God for them is that they may be saved. 2For I bear them witness that pthey have a zeal for God, qbut not according to knowledge. 3For, being ignorant of rthe righteousness of God, and seeking to establish their own, they did not submit to God’s righteousness. 1 Corinthians 1:29
29so sthat no human being ▼▼Greek no flesh
might boast in the presence of God. Galatians 1:14
14And I was advancing in Judaism beyond many of my own age among my people, so extremely uzealous was I for vthe traditions of my fathers.
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