Zechariah 7:5-6
7:5 “Speak to all the people and priests of the land as follows: ‘When you fasted and lamented in the fifth and seventh
1 months through all these seventy years, did you truly fast for me – for me, indeed?
7:6 And now when you eat and drink, are you not doing so for yourselves?’”
Romans 14:7-8
14:7 For none of us lives for himself and none dies for himself.
14:8 If we live, we live for the Lord; if we die, we die for the Lord. Therefore, whether we live or die, we are the Lord’s.
Romans 14:2
14:2 One person believes in eating everything, but the weak person eats only vegetables.
Colossians 1:16
1:16 for all things in heaven and on earth were created by him – all things, whether visible or invisible, whether thrones or dominions, 2 whether principalities or powers – all things were created through him and for him.
Philippians 2:21
2:21 Others are busy with their own concerns, not those of Jesus Christ.
1 tn The seventh month apparently refers to the anniversary of the assassination of Gedaliah, governor of Judah (Jer 40:13-14; 41:1), in approximately 581 b.c.
2 tn BDAG 579 s.v. κυριότης 3 suggests “bearers of the ruling powers, dominions” here.