Numbers 23:1

Balaam’s First Oracle

1And Balaam said to Balak, aBuild for me here seven altars, and prepare for me here seven bulls and seven rams.”

Isaiah 58:3-4

3 bWhy have we fasted, and you see it not?
Why have we humbled ourselves, and you take no knowledge of it?’
Behold, in the day of your fast you seek your own pleasure,
Or pursue your own business

dand oppress all your workers.
4Behold, 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.

Matthew 20:12

12saying, ‘These last worked only one hour, and you have made them equal to us who have borne the burden of the day and ethe scorching heat.’

Luke 18:12

12 fI fast twice a week; gI give tithes of all that I get.’

John 16:2

2 hThey will put you out of the synagogues. Indeed, ithe hour is coming when jwhoever kills you will think he is offering service to God.

Romans 3:27

27 kThen 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.

Ephesians 2:9

9 lnot a result of works, mso that no one may boast.
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