Leviticus 13:32

“Be careful that you don’t do your charitable giving before men, to be seen by them, or else you have no reward from your Father who is in heaven.

“Speak to the children of Israel, and tell them that they should make themselves fringes on the borders of their garments throughout their generations, and that they put on the fringe of each border a cord of blue.

Where then is the boasting? It is excluded. By what kind of law? Of works? No, but by a law of faith.

You shall bind them for a sign on your hand, and they shall be for frontlets between your eyes.

Indeed you bear the name of a Jew, rest on the law, glory in God,

Behold, a woman who had a discharge of blood for twelve years came behind him, and touched the fringe of his garment;

How can you believe, who receive glory from one another, and you don’t seek the glory that comes from the only God?

It shall be for a sign to you on your hand, and for a memorial between your eyes, that Yahweh’s law may be in your mouth; for with a strong hand Yahweh has brought you out of Egypt.

It shall be for a sign on your hand, and for symbols between your eyes; for by strength of hand Yahweh brought us out of Egypt.”

You shall make yourselves fringes on the four corners of your cloak with which you cover yourself.

I will declare your righteousness; and as for your works, they will not benefit you.

Even so you also outwardly appear righteous to men, but inwardly you are full of hypocrisy and iniquity.

“Don’t think that I will accuse you to the Father. There is one who accuses you, even Moses, on whom you have set your hope.

For no one does anything in secret while he seeks to be known openly. If you do these things, reveal yourself to the world.”

Much in every way! Because first of all, they were entrusted with the revelations of God.

who are Israelites; whose is the adoption, the glory, the covenants, the giving of the law, the service, and the promises;

Having regard for honorable things, not only in the sight of the Lord, but also in the sight of men.

doing nothing through rivalry or through conceit, but in humility, each counting others better than himself;

then the priest shall examine the plague; and behold, if its appearance is deeper than the skin, and the hair in it is yellow and thin, then the priest shall pronounce him unclean. It is an itch. It is leprosy of the head or of the beard.

This is the law for any plague of leprosy, and for an itch,

Therefore you shall lay up these words of mine in your heart and in your soul. You shall bind them for a sign on your hand, and they shall be for frontlets between your eyes.

He said, “Come with me, and see my zeal for Yahweh.” So they made him ride in his chariot.

Don’t let kindness and truth forsake you. Bind them around your neck. Write them on the tablet of your heart.

Don’t be overly righteous, neither make yourself overly wise. Why should you destroy yourself?

When you come to appear before me, who has required this at your hand, to trample my courts?

“Speak to all the people of the land, and to the priests, saying, ‘When you fasted and mourned in the fifth and in the seventh month for these seventy years, did you at all fast to me, really to me?

Even so, let your light shine before men; that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father who is in heaven.

and they begged him that they might just touch the fringe of his garment. As many as touched it were made whole.

But they do all their works to be seen by men. They make their phylacteries broad, enlarge the fringes of their garments,

John’s disciples and the Pharisees were fasting, and they came and asked him, “Why do John’s disciples and the disciples of the Pharisees fast, but your disciples don’t fast?”

He said to them, “You are those who justify yourselves in the sight of men, but God knows your hearts. For that which is exalted among men is an abomination in the sight of God.

The Pharisee stood and prayed to himself like this: ‘God, I thank you that I am not like the rest of men, extortionists, unrighteous, adulterers, or even like this tax collector.

He who speaks from himself seeks his own glory, but he who seeks the glory of him who sent him is true, and no unrighteousness is in him.

for they loved men’s praise more than God’s praise.

They both ran together. The other disciple outran Peter, and came to the tomb first.

and kept back part of the price, his wife also being aware of it, then brought a certain part and laid it at the apostles’ feet.

backbiters, hateful to God, insolent, arrogant, boastful, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,

You who glory in the law, do you dishonor God by disobeying the law?

For circumcision indeed profits, if you are a doer of the law, but if you are a transgressor of the law, your circumcision has become uncircumcision.

If I give away all my goods to feed the poor, and if I give my body to be burned, but don’t have love, it profits me nothing.

Do you look at things only as they appear in front of your face? If anyone trusts in himself that he is Christ’s, let him consider this again with himself, that even as he is Christ’s, so we also are Christ’s.

As many as desire to make a good impression in the flesh compel you to be circumcised; just so they may not be persecuted for the cross of Christ.

Some indeed preach Christ even out of envy and strife, and some also out of good will.

he who opposes and exalts himself against all that is called God or that is worshiped, so that he sits as God in the temple of God, setting himself up as God.

Wake up, and keep the things that remain, which you were about to throw away, for I have found no works of yours perfected before my God.