Zechariah 7:6

Bible in Basic English (1941)

And when you are feasting and drinking, are you not doing it only for yourselves?

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Referenced Verses

  • 1 Cor 11:20-21 : 20 But now, when you come together, it is not possible to take the holy meal of the Lord: 21 For when you take your food, everyone takes his meal before the other; and one has not enough food, and another is the worse for drink.
  • 1 Cor 11:26-29 : 26 For whenever you take the bread and the cup you give witness to the Lord's death till he comes. 27 If, then, anyone takes the bread or the cup of the Lord in the wrong spirit, he will be responsible for the body and blood of the Lord. 28 But let no man take of the bread and the cup without testing himself. 29 For a man puts himself in danger, if he takes part in the holy meal without being conscious that it is the Lord's body.
  • Col 3:17 : 17 And whatever you do, in word or in act, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving praise to God the Father through him.
  • Deut 12:7 : 7 There you and all your families are to make a feast before the Lord your God, with joy in everything to which you put your hand, because the Lord has given you his blessing.
  • Deut 14:26 : 26 And with the money get whatever you have a desire for, oxen or sheep or wine or strong drink, whatever your soul's desire may be: and make a feast there before the Lord your God, and be glad, you and all your house;
  • 1 Sam 16:7 : 7 But the Lord said to Samuel, Do not take note of his face or how tall he is, because I will not have him: for the Lord's view is not man's; man takes note of the outer form, but the Lord sees the heart.
  • 1 Chr 29:22 : 22 And with great joy they made a feast before the Lord that day. And they made Solomon, the son of David, king a second time, putting the holy oil on him to make him holy to the Lord as ruler, and on Zadok as priest.
  • Jer 17:9-9 : 9 The heart is a twisted thing, not to be searched out by man: who is able to have knowledge of it? 10 I the Lord am the searcher of the heart, the tester of the thoughts, so that I may give to every man the reward of his ways, in keeping with the fruit of his doings.
  • Hos 8:13 : 13 He gives the offerings of his lovers, and takes the flesh for food; but the Lord has no pleasure in them; now he will keep in mind their evil-doing and give them the punishment of their sins; they will go back to Egypt.
  • Hos 9:4 : 4 They will give no wine offering to the Lord, they will not make offerings ready for him; their bread will be like the bread of those in sorrow; all who take it will be unclean, because their bread will be only for their desire, it will not come into the house of the Lord.
  • 1 Cor 10:31 : 31 So then, if it is a question of food or drink, or any other thing, whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Zech 7:5
    81%

    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?

  • Zech 7:7
    75%

    7 Are not these the words which the Lord said to you by the earlier prophets, when Jerusalem was full of people and wealth, and the towns round about her and the South and the Lowland were peopled?

  • Deut 29:6
    73%

    6 You have had no bread, or wine, or strong drink: so that you might see that I am the Lord your God.

  • 1 Cor 11:20-22
    3 verses
    73%

    20 But now, when you come together, it is not possible to take the holy meal of the Lord:

    21 For when you take your food, everyone takes his meal before the other; and one has not enough food, and another is the worse for drink.

    22 What? have you not houses to take your meals in? or have you no respect for the church of God, putting the poor to shame? What am I to say to you? am I to give you praise? certainly not.

  • Jer 16:8
    72%

    8 And you are not to go into the house of feasting, or be seated with them to take food or drink.

  • Hag 1:6-7
    2 verses
    72%

    6 Much has been planted, but little got in; you take food, but have not enough; you take drink, but are not full; you are clothed, but no one is warm; and he who gets payment for his work, gets it to put it into a bag full of holes.

    7 This is what the Lord of armies has said: Give thought to your ways.

  • Deut 12:7
    72%

    7 There you and all your families are to make a feast before the Lord your God, with joy in everything to which you put your hand, because the Lord has given you his blessing.

  • Deut 2:6
    72%

    6 You may get food for your needs from them for a price, and water for drinking.

  • Job 22:7
    71%

    7 You do not give water to the tired traveller, and from him who has no food you keep back bread.

  • 1 Cor 9:7
    71%

    7 Who ever goes to war without looking to someone to be responsible for his payment? who puts in vines and does not take the fruit of them? or who takes care of sheep without drinking of their milk?

  • Luke 6:3-4
    2 verses
    71%

    3 And Jesus said, Have you not seen in the Writings what David did when he was in need of food, he, and those who were with him;

    4 How he went into the house of God and took for food the holy bread, which only the priests may take, and gave it to those who were with him?

  • Prov 23:7
    71%

    7 For as the thoughts of his heart are, so is he: Take food and drink, he says to you; but his heart is not with you.

  • Luke 7:33-34
    2 verses
    71%

    33 For John the Baptist came, taking no food or drink, and you say, He has an evil spirit.

    34 The Son of man came feasting, and you say, Here is a lover of food and wine, a friend of tax-farmers and sinners.

  • Mic 6:14-15
    2 verses
    71%

    14 You will have food, but not enough; your shame will be ever with you: you will get your goods moved, but you will not take them away safely; and what you do take away I will give to the sword.

    15 You will put in seed, but you will not get in the grain; you will be crushing olives, but your bodies will not be rubbed with the oil; and you will get in the grapes, but you will have no wine.

  • Isa 55:2
    71%

    2 Why do you give your money for what is not bread, and the fruit of your work for what will not give you pleasure? Give ear to me, so that your food may be good, and you may have the best in full measure.

  • Isa 58:3
    70%

    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;

  • Deut 6:11
    70%

    11 And houses full of good things not stored up by you, and places for storing water which you did not make, and vine-gardens and olive-trees not of your planting; and you have taken food and are full;

  • Jer 7:21
    70%

    21 These are the words of the Lord of armies, the God of Israel: Put your burned offerings with your offerings of beasts, and take flesh for your food.

  • Jer 7:17
    70%

    17 Do you not see what they are doing in the towns of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem?

  • Luke 5:33
    70%

    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.

  • Amos 2:12
    70%

    12 But to those who were separate you gave wine for drink; and to the prophets you said, Be prophets no longer.

  • Matt 25:37
    70%

    37 Then will the upright make answer to him, saying, Lord, when did we see you in need of food, and give it to you? or in need of drink, and give it to you?

  • Deut 14:26
    69%

    26 And with the money get whatever you have a desire for, oxen or sheep or wine or strong drink, whatever your soul's desire may be: and make a feast there before the Lord your God, and be glad, you and all your house;

  • Amos 5:11
    69%

    11 So because the poor man is crushed under your feet, and you take taxes from him of grain: you have made for yourselves houses of cut stone, but you will not take your rest in them; the fair vine-gardens planted by your hands will not give you wine.

  • Mal 1:7
    69%

    7 You put unclean bread on my altar. And you say, How have we made it unclean? By your saying, The table of the Lord is of no value.

  • Ezek 4:11
    69%

    11 And you are to take water by measure, the sixth part of a hin: you are to take it at regular times.

  • Ezek 24:22
    69%

    22 And you will do as I have done, not covering your lips or taking the food of those in grief.

  • Isa 58:7
    69%

    7 Is 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?

  • 1 Cor 11:29
    69%

    29 For a man puts himself in danger, if he takes part in the holy meal without being conscious that it is the Lord's body.

  • 1 Kgs 13:22
    69%

    22 But have come back, and have taken food and water in this place where he said you were to take no food or water; your dead body will not be put to rest with your fathers.

  • Amos 4:8
    69%

    8 So two or three towns went wandering to one town looking for water, and did not get enough: and still you have not come back to me, says the Lord.

  • Hos 9:5
    69%

    5 What will you do on the day of worship, and on the day of the feast of the Lord?

  • Jer 2:7
    69%

    7 And I took you into a fertile land, where you were living on its fruit and its wealth; but when you came in, you made my land unclean, and made my heritage a disgusting thing.

  • Ezek 34:3
    69%

    3 You take the milk and are clothed with the wool, you put the fat beasts to death, but you give the sheep no food.

  • Luke 13:26
    69%

    26 Then you will say, We have taken food and drink with you, and you were teaching in our streets.

  • 1 Cor 9:4
    68%

    4 Have we no right to take food and drink?

  • Matt 25:42
    68%

    42 For I was in need of food, and you gave it not to me; I was in need of drink, and you gave it not to me:

  • Ezra 10:6
    68%

    6 Then Ezra got up from before the house of God and went into the room of Jehohanan, the son of Eliashib; but when he came there, he took no food or drink, for he was sorrowing for the sin of those who had come back.

  • Ezra 7:17
    68%

    17 So with this money get with care oxen, sheep, and lambs, with their meal offerings and their drink offerings, to be offered on the altar of the house of your God, which is in Jerusalem.

  • Luke 10:8
    68%

    8 And into whatever town you go, if they take you in, take whatever food is given to you:

  • Gen 44:5
    68%

    5 Is not this the cup from which my lord takes wine and by which he gets knowledge of the future? Truly, you have done evil.

  • 1 Cor 10:7
    68%

    7 Then do not go after false gods, as some of them did; as it is said in the holy Writings, After resting and feasting, the people got up to take their pleasure.

  • Isa 22:13
    68%

    13 But in place of these there was joy and delight, oxen and sheep were being made ready for food, there was feasting and drinking: men said, Now is the time for food and wine, for tomorrow death comes.

  • Ezek 39:19
    68%

    19 You will go on feasting on the fat till you are full, and drinking the blood till you are overcome with it, of my offering which I have put to death for you.