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When you eat, and when you drink, do not you eat for yourselves, and drink for yourselves?
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God Cares About Your 'Why'
The commentators unanimously see this verse as a sharp rebuke of religious acts done for selfish reasons. God asks, "When you eat and drink, isn't it for yourselves?" to expose their self-centeredness. Whether fasting or feasting, their focus was on their own needs and rituals, not on honoring God. This highlights that the motive behind our spiritual practices is more important to God than the external act itself.
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Zechariah
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18th Century
Presbyterian
And when you eat and when you drink, is it not you who eat and you who drink? — Conversely, now that after your return you feast fo…
19th Century
Anglican
The people () are rebuked for the hypocritical, or merely formal, nature of their fasts. The prophet does not, even further on, give any direct ans…
Baptist
If a holy feast is not kept with a view to God, it is not kept at all.
It is a feast to yourselves. You have missed the mark altogether.
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16th Century
Protestant
Here the Prophet tells us that he was sent to the people and to the priests, not so much to teach the messengers who came from distant lands, as to…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
And when you did eat, and when you did drink
Either at common meals, or at their festivals: did you no…
If we truly desire to know the will of God in doubtful matters, we must not only consult his word and ministers, but also seek his direction throug…
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