Bible verse
And when you were eating and drinking, were you not doing so simply for yourselves?
Zechariah 7:6 · BSB
The verses around it, from Zechariah 7.
2 Now the people of Bethel had sent Sharezer and Regem-melech, along with their men, to plead before the LORD
3 by asking the priests of the house of the LORD of Hosts, as well as the prophets, “Should I weep and fast in the fifth month, as I have done these many years?”
4 Then the word of the LORD of Hosts came to me, saying,
5 “Ask all the people of the land and the priests, ‘When you fasted and mourned in the fifth and seventh months for these seventy years, was it really for Me that you fasted?
6 And when you were eating and drinking, were you not doing so simply for yourselves?
7 Are these not the words that the LORD proclaimed through the earlier prophets, when Jerusalem and its surrounding towns were populous and prosperous, and the Negev and the foothills were inhabited?’”
8 Then the word of the LORD came to Zechariah, saying,
9 “This is what the LORD of Hosts says: ‘Administer true justice. Show loving devotion and compassion to one another.
10 Do not oppress the widow or the fatherless, the foreigner or the poor. And do not plot evil in your hearts against one another.’
KJV
And when ye did eat, and when ye did drink, did not ye eat [for yourselves], and drink [for yourselves]?
ASV
And when ye eat, and when ye drink, do not ye eat for yourselves, and drink for yourselves?
ERV
And when ye eat, and when ye drink, do not ye eat for yourselves, and drink for yourselves?
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