Zechariah 7:5-7
5“Say to all the people of the land and the priests, 'When you fasted and mourned in athe fifth month and in bthe seventh, for these cseventy years, dwas it efor me that you fasted? 6 fAnd when you eat and when you drink, do you not eat for yourselves and drink for yourselves? 7 gWere not these the words that the Lord proclaimed hby the former prophets, when Jerusalem was inhabited and prosperous, iwith her cities around her, and the jSouth and the klowland were inhabited?'”Matthew 6:16
Fasting
16“And lwhen you fast, do not look gloomy like the hypocrites, for they disfigure their faces that their fasting may be seen by others. mTruly, I say to you, they have received their reward.Romans 14:6
6The one who observes the day, observes it in honor of the Lord. The one who eats, eats in honor of the Lord, since nhe gives thanks to God, while the one who abstains, abstains in honor of the Lord and gives thanks to God.Romans 14:8
8For if we live, we live to the Lord, and if we die, we die to the Lord. So then, owhether we live or whether we die, we are the Lord’s.Ephesians 5:22
Wives and Husbands
22 pWives, qsubmit to your own husbands, ras to the Lord.Ephesians 6:6-7
6not by the way of eye-service, as speople-pleasers, but as bondservants of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart, 7rendering service with a good will as to the Lord and not to man,1 Peter 2:13
Submission to Authority
13 tBe subject for the Lord’s sake to every human institution, ▼▼Or every institution ordained for people
whether it be to the emperor ▼▼Or king; also verse 17
as supreme, 1 Peter 2:15
15For this is the will of God, wthat by doing good you should put to silence the ignorance of foolish people.
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