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
I the Lord search the heart, I try the reins, even to give every man according to his ways, and …
The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?
And did eat and drink before the Lord on that day with great gladness. And they made Solomon the son …
For he that eateth and drinketh unworthily, eateth and drinketh damnation to himself, not discerning the Lord’s body.
For as often as ye eat this bread, and drink this cup, ye do shew the Lord’s death till he …
For in eating every one taketh before other his own supper: and one is hungry, and another is drunken.
When ye come together therefore into one place, this is not to eat the Lord’s supper.
Whether therefore ye eat, or drink, or whatsoever ye do, do all to the glory of God.
And whatsoever ye do in word or deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to …
But the Lord said unto Samuel, Look not on his countenance, or on the height of his stature; because I …