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Isaiah 58:3
Why have we fasted, say they, and you see not? why have we afflicted our soul, and you take no knowledge? Behold, in the day of your fast you find pleasure, and exact all your labors.
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Jeremiah 14:12
When they fast, I will not hear their cry; and when they offer burnt offering and an oblation, I will not accept them: but I will consume them by the sword, and by the famine, and by the pestilence.
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Elucidations.
... but were often abused by hypocrites, even under ... he treats of the Marcionites, who
rejected marriage on ... with the inspired law concerning fasting and abstinence ...
/...//christianbookshelf.org/clement/the stromata or miscellanies/elucidations 3.htm

Article xxvii (xiii): of Monastic Vows.
... that all things which we have produced be rejected. ... They are shameless hypocrites
with whom the world is ... exercise [a bodily exercise with fasting and certain ...
/.../the apology of the augsburg confession/part 35 article xxvii xiii .htm

Examine Yourself Whether Ye be in the Faith; Prove Your Own Selves ...
... I am not speaking of hypocrites, who have seared their ... whom all the prophecies centered,
they rejected him, and ... to resort to retirement, and fasting, and prayer ...
/.../finney/lectures to professing christians/examine yourself whether ye be.htm

Upon Our Lord's SermonOn the Mount
... upon Him who "was despised and rejected of men ... not suppose, because many Pharisees
were hypocrites, therefore all ... days of Lent, as days of fasting or abstinence ...
/.../wesley/sermons on several occasions/sermon 25 upon our lords.htm

The Treatise
... in addition had all the prayers, fasting, obedience, patience ... of such works and have
rejected them, because ... idolatry and the most mischievous hypocrites on earth ...
//christianbookshelf.org/luther/a treatise on good works/the treatise.htm

Instability
... they are quite as religious in not fasting, and are ... let me not be damned with
hypocrites," for surely ... my Son, and despised his cross, and rejected his salvation ...
/.../christianbookshelf.org/spurgeon/spurgeons sermons volume 3 1857/instability.htm

V. ...
... is spiritually fulfilled; for thus also has God rejected the Jews ... The hypocrites
who rest on their own works, and ... that only can be called true fasting, when we ...
/.../the epistles of st peter and st jude preached and explained/chapter i v .htm

The Second Helvetic Confession, AD 1566.
... but those out of Christ are rejected (2 Corinthians ... There are also many hypocrites
in the Church, who ... True Christian fasting consists in temperance, abstinence ...
/.../ 55 the second helvetic.htm

Second Sunday after Epiphany
... in a good work, such as praying, reading, fasting, giving, serving ... on a stern
countenance, as do the hypocrites, who assume ... of God and not to be rejected with ...
/.../luther/epistle sermons vol ii/second sunday after epiphany.htm

A Discourse of the Building, Nature, Excellency, and Government of ...
... vomit too, Fear not, nor full nor fasting but 'twill ... sincerely done; then have a
care For hypocrites are hateful ... this good counsel is by thee rejected; If work ...
/.../bunyan/the works of john bunyan volumes 1-3/a discourse of the building.htm

Subtopics

Fasting

Fasting by Paul, at the Time of his Conversion

Fasting for the Chastening of the Soul

Fasting for the Humbling of the Soul

Fasting in Babylon, With Prayer for Divine Deliverance and Guidance

Fasting in his Zeal for Zion

Fasting in Prayer for Himself and his Adversaries

Fasting in Times of Bereavement of Abner's Death

Fasting in Times of Bereavement of David, at the Time of Saul's Death

Fasting in Times of Bereavement of the People of Jabesh-Gilead, for Saul and his Sons

Fasting of Ahab, when Elijah Prophesied the Destruction of Himself and his House