Zechariah 7:6 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

⁶ And when you eat and when you drink, do you not eat and drink only for yourselves?

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁶ And when ye did eat, and when ye did drink, did not ye eat for yourselves, and drink for yourselves?

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁶ And when you ate and when you drank, did you not eat for yourselves and drink for yourselves?

American Standard Version (1901)

⁶ And when ye eat, and when ye drink, do not ye eat for yourselves, and drink for yourselves?

Common English Bible

⁶ When you ate and drank, weren’t you the ones eating and drinking?

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁶ And when you did eat and drink, did you not eat for yourselves, and drink only for yourselves?

Zechariah 7:6 Cross References

1 Corinthians 10:31

So, whether you eat or drink or whatever you do, do everything for the glory of God.

Hosea 8:13

Though they offer choice sacrifices, though they eat flesh, the Lord does not accept them. Now he will remember their iniquity and punish their sins; they shall return to Egypt.

Colossians 3:17

And whatever you do, in word or deed, do everything in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him.

Hosea 9:4

They shall not pour drink offerings of wine to the Lord, and their sacrifices shall not please him. Such sacrifices shall be like mourners’ bread; all who eat of it shall be defiled, for their bread shall be for their hunger only; it shall not come to the house of the Lord.

1 Chronicles 29:22

and they ate and drank before the Lord on that day with great joy. They made David’s son Solomon king a second time; they anointed him as the Lord’s prince and Zadok as priest.

1 Samuel 16:7

But the Lord said to Samuel, “Do not look on his appearance or on the height of his stature, because I have rejected him, for the Lord does not see as mortals see; they look on the outward appearance, but the Lord looks on the heart.”

Deuteronomy 14:26

spend the money for whatever you wish: oxen, sheep, wine, strong drink, or whatever you desire. And you shall eat there in the presence of the Lord your God, you and your household rejoicing together.

Deuteronomy 12:7

And you shall eat there in the presence of the Lord your God, you and your households together, rejoicing in all the undertakings in which the Lord your God has blessed you.

Isaiah 43:23

You have not brought me your sheep for burnt offerings or honored me with your sacrifices. I have not burdened you with offerings or wearied you with frankincense.

Isaiah 58:3

“Why do we fast, but you do not see? Why humble ourselves, but you do not notice?” Look, you serve your own interest on your fast day and oppress all your workers.

Zechariah 7:5

“Say to all the people of the land and the priests: When you fasted and lamented in the fifth month and in the seventh for these seventy years, was it for me that you fasted?

Zechariah 7:7

Were not these the words that the Lord proclaimed by the former prophets, when Jerusalem was inhabited and in prosperity, along with the towns around it, and when the Negeb and the Shephelah were inhabited?”