Luke 18:12

Bible in Basic English 1965

Twice in the week I go without food; I give a tenth of all I have.

Cross References

2 Kings 10:16

And he said, Come with me and see how I am on fire for the Lord's cause. So he made him go with him in his carriage.

Isaiah 1:15

And when your hands are stretched out to me, my eyes will be turned away from you: even though you go on making prayers, I will not give ear: your hands are full of blood.

Malachi 3:8

Will a man keep back from God what is right? But you have kept back what is mine. But you say, What have we kept back from you? Tenths and offerings.

Numbers 18:24

For the tenths which the children of Israel give as a lifted offering to the Lord I have given to the Levites as their heritage. and so I have said to them, Among the children of Israel they will have no heritage.

Numbers 23:4

And God came to Balaam, and Balaam said to him, I have made ready seven altars, offering an ox and a male sheep on every altar.

Matthew 5:20

For I say to you, If your righteousness is not greater than the righteousness of the scribes and Pharisees, you will never go into the kingdom of heaven.

Matthew 6:1

Take care not to do your good works before men, to be seen by them; or you will have no reward from your Father in heaven.

Matthew 6:16

And when you go without food, be not sad-faced as the false-hearted are. For they go about with changed looks, so that men may see that they are going without food. Truly I say to you, They have their reward.

Matthew 6:5

And when you make your prayers, be not like the false-hearted men, who take pleasure in getting up and saying their prayers in the Synagogues and at the street turnings so that they may be seen by men. Truly I say to you, They have their reward.

Matthew 9:14

Then the disciples of John came to him, saying, Why do we and the Pharisees frequently go without food, but your disciples do not?

Luke 11:42

But a curse is on you, Pharisees! for you make men give a tenth of every sort of plant, and give no thought to right and the love of God; but it is right for you to do these things, and not let the others be undone.

Luke 17:10

In the same way, when you have done all the things which are given you to do, say, There is no profit in us, for we have only done what we were ordered to do.

Romans 3:27

What reason, then, is there for pride? It is shut out. By what sort of law? of works? No, but by a law of faith.

1 Corinthians 1:29

So that no flesh might have glory before God.

Galatians 1:14

And I went farther in the Jews' religion than a number of my generation among my countrymen, having a more burning interest in the beliefs handed down from my fathers.

Ephesians 2:9

Not by works, so that no man may take glory to himself.

1 Timothy 4:8

For the training of the body is of profit for a little, but religion is of profit in every way, giving hope for the life which now is, and for that which is to come.

1 Samuel 15:13

And Samuel came to Saul; and Saul said to him, May the blessing of the Lord be with you: I have done what was ordered by the Lord.