Numbers 23:1
Balaam Blesses Israel
23:1 Balaam said to Balak, “Build me seven altars here, and prepare for me here seven bulls and seven rams.”
Isaiah 58:3-4
58:3 They lament, ‘Why don’t you notice when we fast?
Why don’t you pay attention when we humble ourselves?’
Look, at the same time you fast, you satisfy your selfish desires,
you oppress your workers.
58:4 Look, your fasting is accompanied by arguments, brawls,
and fistfights.
Do not fast as you do today,
trying to make your voice heard in heaven.
Matthew 20:12
20:12 saying, ‘These last fellows worked one hour, and you have made them equal to us who bore the hardship and burning heat of the day.’
Luke 18:12
18:12 I fast twice
a week; I give a tenth
of everything I get.’
John 16:2
16:2 They will put you out of
the synagogue,
yet a time
is coming when the one who kills you will think he is offering service to God.
Romans 3:27
3:27 Where, then, is boasting? It is excluded! By what principle? Of works? No, but by the principle of faith!
Ephesians 2:9
2:9 it is not from
works, so that no one can boast.