Isaiah 58:4

New Century Version

On these special days when you fast, you argue and fight and hit each other with your fists. You cannot do these things as you do now and believe your prayers are heard in heaven.

Cross References

Proverbs 21:27

The Lord hates sacrifices brought by evil people, particularly when they offer them for the wrong reasons.

Isaiah 1:15

When you raise your arms to me in prayer, I will refuse to look at you. Even if you say many prayers, I will not listen to you, because your hands are full of blood.

Isaiah 3:14

The Lord presents his case against the elders and other leaders of his people: “You have burned the vineyard. Your houses are full of what you took from the poor.

Isaiah 3:15

What gives you the right to crush my people and grind the faces of the poor into the dirt?” The Lord God All-Powerful says this.

Isaiah 59:2

It is your evil that has separated you from your God. Your sins cause him to turn away from you, so he does not hear you.

Isaiah 59:6

The webs they make cannot be used for clothes; you can’t cover yourself with those webs. The things they do are evil, and they use their hands to hurt others.

Joel 2:12

The Lord says, “Even now, come back to me with all your heart. Fast, cry, and be sad.”

Jonah 3:7

He sent this announcement through Nineveh: By command of the king and his important men: No person or animal, herd or flock, will be allowed to taste anything. Do not let them eat food or drink water.

Matthew 23:13

“How terrible for you, teachers of the law and Pharisees! You are hypocrites! You close the door for people to enter the kingdom of heaven. You yourselves don’t enter, and you stop others who are trying to enter. [

Luke 20:47

But they cheat widows and steal their houses and then try to make themselves look good by saying long prayers. They will receive a greater punishment.”

John 18:28

Early in the morning they led Jesus from Caiaphas’s house to the Roman governor’s palace. They would not go inside the palace, because they did not want to make themselves unclean; they wanted to eat the Passover meal.