Zechariah 7:6

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

When you eat and drink, don’t you eat and drink simply for yourselves?

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 sacrificial gifts  , and eat the flesh, the Lord does not accept them. Now he will remember their guilt and punish their sins; they will return to Egypt.

Colossians 3:17

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

Hosea 9:4

They will not pour out their wine offerings to the  Lord, and their sacrifices will not please him. Their food will be like the bread of mourners; all who eat it become defiled. For their bread will be for their appetites alone; it will not enter the house of the  Lord.

1 Chronicles 29:22

They ate and drank with great joy in the Lord’s presence that day. Then, for a second time,  they made David’s son Solomon king; they anointed him  as the Lord’s ruler,  and Zadok as the priest.

1 Samuel 16:7

But the Lord said to Samuel, ‘Do not look at his appearance or his stature because I have rejected him. Humans do not see what the Lord sees,  for humans see what is visible, but the Lord sees the heart.’

Deuteronomy 14:26

You may spend the silver on anything you want: cattle, sheep, goats, wine, beer, or anything you desire. You are to feast there in the presence of the Lord your God and rejoice with your family.

Deuteronomy 12:7

You will eat there in the presence of the Lord your God and rejoice with your household in everything you do,  because the Lord your God has blessed you.

Isaiah 43:23

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

Isaiah 58:3

‘Why have we fasted, but you have not seen? We have denied ourselves, but you haven’t noticed! ’ ‘Look, you do as you please on the day of your fast, and oppress all your workers.

Zechariah 7:5

‘Ask all the people of the land and the priests: When you fasted and lamented in the fifth and in the seventh months for these seventy years, did you really fast for me?

Zechariah 7:7

Aren’t these the words that the Lord proclaimed through the earlier prophets when Jerusalem was inhabited and secure,  along with its surrounding cities, and when the southern region and the Judean foothills were inhabited? ’