Zechariah 7:6
And when ye did eat, and when ye did drink, did not ye eat for yourselves, and drink for yourselves?
Context
This verse from Zechariah Chapter 7 connects to 10 cross-references. A delegation asks whether to continue the fasts commemorating Jerusalem's fall. God replies with a question: were those fasts really for him? He calls for genuine justice, kindness, and mercy — not oppressing widows, orphans, strangers, and the poor. The …
Other Translations
And when ye eat, and when ye drink, do not ye eat for yourselves, and drink for yourselves?
When ye fasted with mourning in the fifth and in the seventh <FI>months<Fi> --even these seventy years--did ye keep the fast <FI>to<Fi> Me--Me? And when ye eat, and when ye drink, is it not ye who are eating, and ye who are drinking?
And when you are feasting and drinking, are you not doing it only for yourselves?
Cross References
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And did eat and drink before the Lord on that day with great gladness. And they made Solomon the son …
The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?
I the Lord search the heart, I try the reins, even to give every man according to his ways, and …
They sacrifice flesh for the sacrifices of mine offerings, and eat it; but the Lord accepteth them not; now will …
They shall not offer wine offerings to the Lord, neither shall they be pleasing unto him: their sacrifices shall be …
Whether therefore ye eat, or drink, or whatsoever ye do, do all to the glory of God.
When ye come together therefore into one place, this is not to eat the Lord’s supper.