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Teaching about fasting

Mat 6:16–18

6:16 Teaching about fasting

16 “Whenever you people are abstaining from food, don’t look miserable like the hypocrites, because they intentionally try to look awful so that everyone will notice that they’re fasting. I can assure you that they’ve already received their reward in full. 17 Instead, when you fast, comb your hair and wash your face 18 so that no one will realise that you’re fasting, other than your father who’s not visible to you. Then your father who sees everything will reward you.

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16 And whenever you _all _may _be _fasting, be_ not _becoming downcast like the hypocrites, because/for they _are _disfiguring the appearances of _them, so _that they _may _be _seen by _the people fasting.
Truly, I _am _saying to _you _all, they _are _receiving _fully the reward of _them.

17 But you fasting, anoint the head of _you and wash the face of _you,

18 so _that you _may_ not _be _seen by _the people fasting, but to _the father of _you who is in the secret, and the father of _you, the one seeing in the secret, will _be _giving _back to _you.