Matthew 6:17

Bible in Basic English (1941)

But when you go without food, put oil on your head and make your face clean;

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Referenced Verses

  • Ruth 3:3 : 3 So take a bath, and, after rubbing your body with sweet oil, put on your best robe, and go down to the grain-floor; but do not let him see you till he has come to the end of his meal.
  • 2 Sam 12:20 : 20 Then David got up from the earth, and after washing and rubbing himself with oil and changing his clothing, he went into the house of the Lord and gave worship: then he went back to his house, and at his order they put food before him and he had a meal.
  • 2 Sam 14:2 : 2 And Joab sent to Tekoa and got from there a wise woman, and said to her, Now make yourself seem like one given up to grief, and put on the clothing of sorrow, not using any sweet oil for your body, but looking like one who for a long time has been weeping for the dead:
  • Eccl 9:8 : 8 Let your clothing be white at all times, and let not your head be without oil.
  • Dan 10:2-3 : 2 In those days I, Daniel, gave myself up to grief for three full weeks. 3 I had no pleasing food, no meat or wine came into my mouth, and I put no oil on my body till three full weeks were ended.

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    16And 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 6:18-19
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    83%

    18So 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.

    19Make no store of wealth for yourselves on earth, where it may be turned to dust by worms and weather, and where thieves may come in by force and take it away.

  • Matt 6:1-8
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    1Take 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.

    2When 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.

    3But when you give money, let not your left hand see what your right hand does:

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

    5And 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.

    6But when you make your prayer, go into your private room, and, shutting the door, say a prayer to your Father in secret, and your Father, who sees in secret, will give you your reward.

    7And in your prayer do not make use of the same words again and again, as the Gentiles do: for they have the idea that God will give attention to them because of the number of their words.

    8So be not like them; because your Father has knowledge of your needs even before you make your requests to him.

  • Isa 58:3-7
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    3They 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;

    4If keeping from food makes you quickly angry, ready for fighting and giving blows with evil hands; your holy days are not such as to make your voice come to my ears on high.

    5Have I given orders for such a day as this? a day for keeping yourselves from pleasure? is it only a question of the bent head, of putting on haircloth, and being seated in the dust? is this what seems to you a holy day, well-pleasing to the Lord?

    6Is not this the holy day for which I have given orders: to let loose those who have wrongly been made prisoners, to undo the bands of the yoke, and to let the crushed go free, and every yoke be broken?

    7Is it not to give your bread to those in need, and to let the poor who have no resting-place come into your house? to put a robe on the unclothed one when you see him, and not to keep your eyes shut for fear of seeing his flesh?

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    14Then 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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  • Mark 2:18-20
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    18And 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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  • Luke 5:33-35
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    16Be washed, make yourselves clean; put away the evil of your doings from before my eyes; let there be an end of sinning;

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    8Let your clothing be white at all times, and let not your head be without oil.

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    16Even so let your light be shining before men, so that they may see your good works and give glory to your Father in heaven.

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