Luke 18:12

Bible in Basic English (1941)

Twice in the week I go without food; I give a tenth of all I have.

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  • Luke 11:42 : 42 But a curse is on you, Pharisees! for you make men give a tenth of every sort of plant, and give no thought to right and the love of God; but it is right for you to do these things, and not let the others be undone.
  • Matt 9:14 : 14 Then the disciples of John came to him, saying, Why do we and the Pharisees frequently go without food, but your disciples do not?
  • Mal 3:8 : 8 Will a man keep back from God what is right? But you have kept back what is mine. But you say, What have we kept back from you? Tenths and offerings.
  • Matt 6:1 : 1 Take care not to do your good works before men, to be seen by them; or you will have no reward from your Father in heaven.
  • Matt 6:5 : 5 And when you make your prayers, be not like the false-hearted men, who take pleasure in getting up and saying their prayers in the Synagogues and at the street turnings so that they may be seen by men. Truly I say to you, They have their reward.
  • Matt 6:16 : 16 And when you go without food, be not sad-faced as the false-hearted are. For they go about with changed looks, so that men may see that they are going without food. Truly I say to you, They have their reward.
  • Matt 15:7-9 : 7 You false ones, well did Isaiah say of you, 8 These people give me honour with their lips, but their heart is far from me. 9 But their worship is to no purpose, while they give as their teaching the rules of men.
  • Matt 23:23-24 : 23 A curse is on you, scribes and Pharisees, false ones! for you make men give a tenth of all sorts of sweet-smelling plants, but you give no thought to the more important things of the law, righteousness, and mercy, and faith; but it is right for you to do these, and not to let the others be undone. 24 You blind guides, who take out a fly from your drink, but make no trouble over a camel.
  • Luke 17:10 : 10 In the same way, when you have done all the things which are given you to do, say, There is no profit in us, for we have only done what we were ordered to do.
  • Rom 3:27 : 27 What reason, then, is there for pride? It is shut out. By what sort of law? of works? No, but by a law of faith.
  • Rom 10:1-3 : 1 Brothers, my heart's desire and my prayer to God for them is, that they may get salvation. 2 For I give witness of them that they have a strong desire for God, but not with knowledge. 3 Because, not having knowledge of God's righteousness, and desiring to give effect to their righteousness, they have not put themselves under the righteousness of God.
  • 1 Cor 1:29 : 29 So that no flesh might have glory before God.
  • Gal 1:14 : 14 And I went farther in the Jews' religion than a number of my generation among my countrymen, having a more burning interest in the beliefs handed down from my fathers.
  • Eph 2:9 : 9 Not by works, so that no man may take glory to himself.
  • 1 Tim 4:8 : 8 For the training of the body is of profit for a little, but religion is of profit in every way, giving hope for the life which now is, and for that which is to come.
  • Lev 27:30-33 : 30 And every tenth part of the land, of the seed planted, or of the fruit of trees, is holy to the Lord. 31 And if a man has a desire to get back any of the tenth part which he has given, let him give a fifth more. 32 And a tenth part of the herd and of the flock, whatever goes under the rod of the valuer, will be holy to the Lord. 33 He may not make search to see if it is good or bad, or make any changes in it; and if he makes exchange of it for another, the two will be holy; he will not get them back again.
  • Num 18:24 : 24 For the tenths which the children of Israel give as a lifted offering to the Lord I have given to the Levites as their heritage. and so I have said to them, Among the children of Israel they will have no heritage.
  • Num 23:4 : 4 And God came to Balaam, and Balaam said to him, I have made ready seven altars, offering an ox and a male sheep on every altar.
  • 1 Sam 15:13 : 13 And Samuel came to Saul; and Saul said to him, May the blessing of the Lord be with you: I have done what was ordered by the Lord.
  • 2 Kgs 10:16 : 16 And he said, Come with me and see how I am on fire for the Lord's cause. So he made him go with him in his carriage.
  • Isa 1:15 : 15 And when your hands are stretched out to me, my eyes will be turned away from you: even though you go on making prayers, I will not give ear: your hands are full of blood.
  • Isa 58:2-3 : 2 Though they make prayer to me every day, and take pleasure in the knowledge of my ways: like a nation which has done righteousness, and has not given up the rules of their God, they make requests to me for the right orders, it is their delight to come near to God. 3 They say, Why have we kept ourselves from food, and you do not see it? why have we kept ourselves from pleasure, and you take no note of it? If, in the days when you keep from food, you take the chance to do your business, and get in your debts;
  • Zech 7:5-6 : 5 Say to all the people of the land and to the priests, When you went without food and gave yourselves to grief in the fifth and the seventh months for these seventy years, did you ever do it because of me? 6 And when you are feasting and drinking, are you not doing it only for yourselves?

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    9 And he made this story for some people who were certain that they were good, and had a low opinion of others:

    10 Two men went up to the Temple for prayer; one a Pharisee, and the other a tax-farmer.

    11 The Pharisee, taking up his position, said to himself these words: God, I give you praise because I am not like other men, who take more than their right, who are evil-doers, who are untrue to their wives, or even like this tax-farmer.

  • Luke 18:13-14
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    13 The tax-farmer, on the other hand, keeping far away, and not lifting up even his eyes to heaven, made signs of grief and said, God, have mercy on me, a sinner.

    14 I say to you, This man went back to his house with God's approval, and not the other: for everyone who makes himself high will be made low and whoever makes himself low will be made high.

  • Luke 19:8
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  • Luke 11:41-43
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    41 But if you give to the poor such things as you are able, then all things are clean to you.

    42 But a curse is on you, Pharisees! for you make men give a tenth of every sort of plant, and give no thought to right and the love of God; but it is right for you to do these things, and not let the others be undone.

    43 A curse is on you, Pharisees! for your desires are for the most important seats in the Synagogues and for words of respect said to you in the market-place.

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    21 And he said, All these things I have done from the time when I was a boy.

  • Luke 12:16-18
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    16 And he said to them, in a story, The land of a certain man of great wealth was very fertile:

    17 And he said to himself, What is to be done? for I have no place in which to put all my fruit.

    18 And he said, This I will do: I will take down my store-houses and make greater ones, and there I will put all my grain and my goods.

  • Matt 6:1-2
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    1 Take care not to do your good works before men, to be seen by them; or you will have no reward from your Father in heaven.

    2 When then you give money to the poor, do not make a noise about it, as the false-hearted men do in the Synagogues and in the streets, so that they may have glory from men. Truly, I say to you, They have their reward.

  • Mal 3:8
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    8 Will a man keep back from God what is right? But you have kept back what is mine. But you say, What have we kept back from you? Tenths and offerings.

  • Matt 6:16
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    16 And when you go without food, be not sad-faced as the false-hearted are. For they go about with changed looks, so that men may see that they are going without food. Truly I say to you, They have their reward.

  • Mark 2:18
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    18 And John's disciples and the Pharisees were taking no food: and they came and said to him, Why do John's disciples and the disciples of the Pharisees go without food, but your disciples do not?

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    20 And he said to him, Master, all these laws I have kept from the time when I was young.

  • Luke 5:33
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    33 And they said to him, The disciples of John frequently go without food, and make prayers, and so do the disciples of the Pharisees; but your disciples take food and drink.

  • Matt 23:23
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    23 A curse is on you, scribes and Pharisees, false ones! for you make men give a tenth of all sorts of sweet-smelling plants, but you give no thought to the more important things of the law, righteousness, and mercy, and faith; but it is right for you to do these, and not to let the others be undone.

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    39 And to have the chief seats in the Synagogues and the first places at feasts;

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    42 And there came a poor widow, and she put in two little bits of money, which make a farthing.

    43 And he made his disciples come to him, and said to them, Truly I say to you, This poor widow has put in more than all those who are putting money into the box:

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    14 Then the disciples of John came to him, saying, Why do we and the Pharisees frequently go without food, but your disciples do not?

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    1 And looking up, he saw the men of wealth putting their offerings in the money-box.

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    14 And the Pharisees, who had a great love of money, hearing these things, were making sport of him.

    15 And he said, You take care to seem right in the eyes of men, but God sees your hearts: and those things which are important in the opinion of men, are evil in the eyes of God.

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    18 So that no one may see that you are going without food, but your Father in secret; and your Father, who sees in secret, will give you your reward.

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    10 Let your tenths come into the store-house so that there may be food in my house, and put me to the test by doing so, says the Lord of armies, and see if I do not make the windows of heaven open and send down such a blessing on you that there is no room for it.

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    5 But all their works they do so as to be seen by men: for they make wide their phylacteries, and the edges of their robes,

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    11 And he made answer and said to them, He who has two coats, let him give to him who has not even one; and he who has food, let him do the same.

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    12 Then all Judah came with the tenth part of the grain and wine and oil and put it into the store-houses.

  • Neh 10:37
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    37 And that we would take the first of our rough meal, and our lifted offerings, and the fruit of every sort of tree, and wine and oil, to the priests, to the rooms of the house of our God; and the tenth of the produce of our land to the Levites; for they, the Levites, take a tenth in all the towns of our ploughed land.

  • Mark 12:15
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    15 Are we to give or not to give? But he, conscious of their false hearts, said to them, Why do you put me to the test? give me a penny, so that I may see it.

  • Luke 11:39
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    39 And the Lord said to him, You Pharisees make the outside of the cup and the plate clean; but inside you are thieves and full of evil.

  • Matt 9:11
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    11 And when the Pharisees saw it, they said to his disciples, Why does your Master take food with tax-farmers and sinners?

  • Num 18:26
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    26 Say to the Levites, When you take from the children of Israel the tenth which I have given to you from them as your heritage, a tenth part of that tenth is to be offered as an offering lifted up before the Lord.

  • Matt 12:2
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    2 But the Pharisees, when they saw it, said to him, See, your disciples do that which it is not right to do on the Sabbath.

  • Deut 14:22
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    22 Put on one side a tenth of all the increase of your seed, produced year by year.

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    3 They say, Why have we kept ourselves from food, and you do not see it? why have we kept ourselves from pleasure, and you take no note of it? If, in the days when you keep from food, you take the chance to do your business, and get in your debts;

  • Matt 6:4
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    4 So that your giving may be in secret; and your Father, who sees in secret, will give you your reward.

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    4 Now see how great this man was, to whom our father Abraham gave a tenth part of what he had got in the fight.

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    18 I will get up and go to my father, and will say to him, Father, I have done wrong, against heaven and in your eyes:

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    24 And at the start, one came to him who was in his debt for ten thousand talents.

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    26 All the day the sinner goes after his desire: but the upright man gives freely, keeping nothing back.