Luke 18:12
Good News Translation
I fast two days a week, and I give you one tenth of all my income.'

New Revised Standard Version
I fast twice a week; I give a tenth of all my income.’

Contemporary English Version
I go without eating for two days a week, and I give you one tenth of all I earn."

New American Bible
I fast twice a week, and I pay tithes on my whole income.’

Douay-Rheims Bible
I fast twice in a week: I give tithes of all that I possess.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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

fast.

Luke 17:10 I think not. So you also, when you shall have done all these things that are commanded you, say: We are unprofitable servants; we have done that which we ought to do.

Numbers 23:4 And when he was gone with speed, God met him. And Balaam speaking to him, said: I have erected seven altars, and have laid on everyone a calf and a ram.

1 Samuel 15:13 And when Samuel was come to Saul, Saul said to him: Blessed be thou of the Lord, I have fulfilled the word of the Lord.

2 Kings 10:16 And said to him: Come with me, and see my zeal for the Lord. So he made him ride in his chariot,

Isaiah 1:15 And when you stretch forth your hands, I will turn away my eyes from you: and when you multiply prayer, I will not hear: for your hands are full of blood.

Isaiah 58:2,3 For they seek me from day to day, and desire to know my ways, as a nation that hath done justice, and hath not forsaken the judgment of their God: they ask of me the judgments of justice: they are willing to approach to God. . . .

Zechariah 7:5,6 Speak to all the people of the land, and to the priests, saying: When you fasted, and mourned in the fifth and the seventh month for these seventy years: did you keep a fast unto me? . . .

Matthew 6:1,5,16 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. . . .

Matthew 9:14 Then came to him the disciples of John, saying: Why do we and the Pharisees, fast often, but thy disciples do not fast?

Matthew 15:7-9 Hypocrites, well hath Isaias prophesied of you, saying: . . .

Romans 3:27 Where is then thy boasting? It is excluded. By what law? Of works? No, but by the law of faith.

Romans 10:1-3 Brethren, the will of my heart, indeed and my prayer to God is for them unto salvation. . . .

1 Corinthians 1:29 That no flesh should glory in his sight.

Galatians 1:14 And I made progress in the Jew's religion above many of my equals in my own nation, being more abundantly zealous for the traditions of my fathers.

Ephesians 2:9 Not of works, that no man may glory.

1 Timothy 4:8 For bodily exercise is profitable to little: but godliness is profitable to all things, having promise of the life that now is and of that which is to come.

I give.

Luke 11:42 But woe to you, Pharisees, because you tithe mint and rue and every herb and pass over judgment and the charity of God. Now these things you ought to have done, and not to leave the other undone.

Leviticus 27:30-33 All tithes of the land, whether of corn, or of the fruits of trees, are the Lord's, and are sanctified to him. . . .

Numbers 18:24 But be content with the oblation or tithes, which I have separated for their uses and necessities.

Malachi 3:8 Shall a man afflict God, for you afflict me. And you have said: Wherein do we afflict thee? in tithes and in firstfruits.

Matthew 23:23,24 Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites; because you tithe mint and anise and cummin and have left the weightier things of the law: judgment and mercy and faith. These things you ought to have done and not to leave those undone. . . .

Context
The Pharisee and Tax Collector
11The Pharisee standing, prayed thus with himself: O God, I give thee thanks that I am not as the rest of men, extortioners, unjust, adulterers, as also is this publican. 12I fast twice in a week: I give tithes of all that I possess. 13And the publican, standing afar off, would not so much as lift up his eyes towards heaven; but struck his breast, saying: O God, be merciful to me a sinner.…
Cross References
Isaiah 58:3
Why have we fasted, and thou hast not regarded: have we humbled our souls, and thou hast not taken notice? Behold in the day of your fast your own will is found, and you exact of all your debtors.

Matthew 5:20
For I tell you, that unless your justice abound more than that of the scribes and Pharisees, you shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven.

Matthew 9:14
Then came to him the disciples of John, saying: Why do we and the Pharisees, fast often, but thy disciples do not fast?

Luke 11:42
But woe to you, Pharisees, because you tithe mint and rue and every herb and pass over judgment and the charity of God. Now these things you ought to have done, and not to leave the other undone.

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