When you fast
Moreover when you fast, do not be as the hypocrites, of a sad countenance, for they disfigure their faces, so that they may appear to men to be fasting. Truly I say to you, they have their reward. Matthew 6:16.
1771 text
Moreover when ye fast, be not as the hypocrites, of a sad countenance, for they disfigure their faces, that they may appear unto men to fast. Verily I say unto you, they have their reward.
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Catalogue & scope
Sermon 27 in the 1771 Works. Matthew 6:16-18.
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