Matthew 6:16

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

And when you fast, be not as the hypocrites, sad. For they disfigure their faces, that they may appear unto men to fast. Amen I say to you, they have received their reward.

Cross References

Nehemiah 1:4

And when I had heard these words I sat down, and wept, and mourned for many days: and I fasted, and prayed before the face of the God of heaven.

Luke 18:12

I fast twice in a week: I give tithes of all that I possess.

Mark 2:18

And the disiples of John and the Pharisees used to fast; and they come and say to him: Why do the disciples of John and of the Pharisees fast; but thy disciples do not fast?

Psalm 35:13

There the workers of iniquity are fallen, they are cast out, and could not stand.

Acts 14:23

And passing through Pisidia, they came into Pamphylia.

Matthew 6:5

And when ye pray, you shall not be as the hypocrites, that love to stand and pray in the synagogues and corners of the streets, that they may be seen by men: Amen I say to you, they have received their reward.

Matthew 6:2

Therefore when thou dost an almsdeed, sound not a trumpet before thee, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may be honoured by men. Amen I say to you, they have received their reward.

2 Samuel 12:16

And David besought the Lord for the child: and David kept a fast, and going in by himself lay upon the ground.

1 Kings 21:27

And when Achab had heard these words, he rent his garments, and put haircloth upon his flesh, and fasted and slept in sackcloth, and walked with his head cast down.

2 Corinthians 11:27

In labour and painfulness, in much watchings, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness.

1 Corinthians 7:5

Defraud not one another, except, perhaps, by consent, for a time, that you may give yourselves to prayer; and return together again, lest Satan tempt you for your incontinency.

Luke 2:37

And she was a widow until fourscore and four years; who departed not from the temple, by fastings and prayers serving night and day.

Malachi 3:14

And you have said: What have we spoken against thee? You have said: He laboureth in vain that serveth God, and what profit is it that we have kept his ordinances, and that we have walked sorrowful before the Lord of hosts?

2 Samuel 12:21

And his servants said to him: What thing is this that thou hast done? Thou didst fast and weep for the child, while it was alive; but when the child was dead thou didst rise up, and eat bread.

2 Corinthians 6:5

In stripes, in prisons, in seditions, in labours, in watchings, in fastings,

Acts 10:30

And Cornelius said: Four days ago, unto this hour, I was praying in my house, at the ninth hour, and behold a man stood before me in white apparel, and said:

Matthew 6:1

TAKE heed that you do not your justice before men, to be seen by them: otherwise you shall not have a reward of your Father who is in heaven.