Matthew 6:16

English Majority Text Version

"Moreover, when you fast, do not become gloomy, like the hypocrites, for they disfigure their faces that they may appear to men to be fasting. Assuredly I say to you, that they receive their reward in full.

Cross References

Matthew 6:1

"Take care not to be doing your charitable giving before men, so as to be seen by them. Otherwise, you have not a reward from your Father in heaven.

Matthew 6:2

Whenever therefore you do charitable giving, do not sound a trumpet before you as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, so that they may be praised by men. Assuredly I say to you, they receive their reward in full.

Matthew 6:5

"And whenever you pray, you shall not be like the hypocrites, because they love to pray standing in the synagogues, and on the streetcorners, so that they may be seen by men. Assuredly I say to you, that they receive their reward in full.

Mark 2:18

And the disciples of John and of the Pharisees were fasting. Then they came and said to Him, "Why do the disciples of John and of the Pharisees fast, but Your disciples do not fast?"

Luke 18:12

I fast twice a week, I tithe on all things, as many as I acquire.'

Luke 2:37

and she was a widow of about eighty-four years, who did not depart from the temple, but served God with fastings and prayers night and day.

Acts 10:30

So Cornelius said, "From the fourth day until this hour I was fasting, and at the ninth hour I was praying in my house, and behold, a man stood before me in shining clothing,

Acts 14:23

And having chosen elders for them in every church, and having prayed with fasting, they commended them to the Lord in whom they had believed.

1 Corinthians 7:5

Do not deprive one another, except by mutual agreement, and that for a season, so that you may devote yourselves to fasting and prayer; and come together again, lest Satan tempt you because of your lack of self-control.

2 Corinthians 11:27

in labor and hardship, in sleepless nights often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness--

2 Corinthians 6:5

in stripes, in imprisonments, in disturbances, in labors, in sleepless nights, in fastings;