Mark 2:18

“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.

But woe to you Pharisees! For you tithe mint and rue and every herb, but you bypass justice and God’s love. You ought to have done these, and not to have left the other undone.

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.

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

so that your merciful deeds may be in secret, then your Father who sees in secret will reward you openly.

But you, when you pray, enter into your inner room, and having shut your door, pray to your Father who is in secret, and your Father who sees in secret will reward you openly.

Then John’s disciples came to him, saying, “Why do we and the Pharisees fast often, but your disciples don’t fast?”

For in it is revealed God’s righteousness from faith to faith. As it is written, “But the righteous shall live by faith.”

and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own, that which is of the law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness which is from God by faith,

Blessed be God Most High, who has delivered your enemies into your hand.” Abram gave him a tenth of all.

I also walked contrary to them, and brought them into the land of their enemies; if then their uncircumcised heart is humbled, and they then accept the punishment of their iniquity,

It shall be righteousness to us, if we observe to do all these commandments before Yahweh our God, as he has commanded us.”

However you are just in all that has come on us; for you have dealt truly, but we have done wickedly.

He sings before men, and says, ‘I have sinned, and perverted that which was right, and it didn’t profit me.

Your righteousness also, God, reaches to the heavens; you have done great things. God, who is like you?

For the moth will eat them up like a garment, and the worm will eat them like wool; but my righteousness will be forever, and my salvation to all generations.”

Yahweh says, “Maintain justice and do what is right, for my salvation is near and my righteousness will soon be revealed.

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

For we have all become like one who is unclean, and all our righteousness is like a polluted garment. We all fade like a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, take us away.

It is because of Yahweh’s loving kindnesses that we are not consumed, because his compassion doesn’t fail.

Therefore when you do merciful deeds, don’t sound a trumpet before yourself, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may get glory from men. Most certainly I tell you, they have received their reward.

“Moreover when you fast, don’t be like the hypocrites, with sad faces. For they disfigure their faces, that they may be seen by men to be fasting. Most certainly I tell you, they have received their reward.

so that you are not seen by men to be fasting, but by your Father who is in secret, and your Father, who sees in secret, will reward you.

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

But he, desiring to justify himself, asked Jesus, “Who is my neighbor?”

I fast twice a week. I give tithes of all that I get.’

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

even the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ to all and on all those who believe. For there is no distinction,

For as through the one man’s disobedience many were made sinners, even so through the obedience of the one, many will be made righteous.

For him who knew no sin he made to be sin on our behalf; so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.

And whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord, and not for men,

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.”

“ ‘All the tithe of the land, whether of the seed of the land or of the fruit of the trees, is Yahweh’s. It is holy to Yahweh.

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

But as for me, when they were sick, my clothing was sackcloth. I afflicted my soul with fasting. My prayer returned into my own bosom.

I have not hidden your righteousness within my heart. I have declared your faithfulness and your salvation. I have not concealed your loving kindness and your truth from the great assembly.

When I wept and I fasted, that was to my reproach.

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

Behold, all you who kindle a fire, who adorn yourselves with torches around yourselves, walk in the flame of your fire, and among the torches that you have kindled. You will have this from my hand: you will lie down in sorrow.

Will a man rob God? Yet you rob me! But you say, ‘How have we robbed you?’ In tithes and offerings.

Rejoice, and be exceedingly glad, for great is your reward in heaven. For that is how they persecuted the prophets who were before you.

“When you pray, you shall not be as the hypocrites, for they love to stand and pray in the synagogues and in the corners of the streets, that they may be seen by men. Most certainly, I tell you, they have received their reward.

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

They said to him, “Why do John’s disciples often fast and pray, likewise also the disciples of the Pharisees, but yours eat and drink?”

He spoke also this parable to certain people who were convinced of their own righteousness, and who despised all others.

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

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

I marvel that you are so quickly deserting him who called you in the grace of Christ to a different “good news”,

I don’t reject the grace of God. For if righteousness is through the law, then Christ died for nothing!”

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

Be subject therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.

Simon Peter, a servant and apostle of Jesus Christ, to those who have obtained a like precious faith with us in the righteousness of our God and Savior, Jesus Christ:

On the seventh day the priest shall examine the plague; and behold, if the itch hasn’t spread, and there is no yellow hair in it, and the appearance of the itch isn’t deeper than the skin,

God met Balaam, and he said to him, “I have prepared the seven altars, and I have offered up a bull and a ram on every altar.”

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.

Then his servants said to him, “What is this that you have done? You fasted and wept for the child while he was alive, but when the child was dead, you rose up and ate bread.”

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

“Go, gather together all the Jews who are present in Susa, and fast for me, and neither eat nor drink three days, night or day. I and my maidens will also fast the same way. Then I will go in to the king, which is against the law; and if I perish, I perish.”

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

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

When you spread out your hands, I will hide my eyes from you. Yes, when you make many prayers, I will not hear. Your hands are full of blood.

“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.

For most certainly, I tell you, until heaven and earth pass away, not even one smallest letter or one tiny pen stroke shall in any way pass away from the law, until all things are accomplished.

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

The servant therefore fell down and knelt before him, saying, ‘Lord, have patience with me, and I will repay you all!’

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

When all the people and the tax collectors heard this, they declared God to be just, having been baptized with John’s baptism.

Even so you also, when you have done all the things that are commanded you, say, ‘We are unworthy servants. We have done our duty.’ ”

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

who “will pay back to everyone according to their works:”

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

For being ignorant of God’s righteousness, and seeking to establish their own righteousness, they didn’t subject themselves to the righteousness of God.

that no flesh should boast before God.

Don’t deprive one another, unless it is by consent for a season, that you may give yourselves to fasting and prayer, and may be together again, that Satan doesn’t tempt you because of your lack of self-control.

I advanced in the Jews’ religion beyond many of my own age among my countrymen, being more exceedingly zealous for the traditions of my fathers.

may be strengthened to comprehend with all the saints what is the width and length and height and depth,