Matthew 6:16
Moreover when you fast, be not, as the hypocrites, of a sad countenance: for they disfigure their faces, that they may appear to men to fast. Truly I say to you, They have their reward.
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Matt. vi. 16
... But if this be a disfiguring of the face, to appear ... Take heed not to do it before
men," He added, "to be seen of them;" yet concerning fasting and prayer ...
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The Worst Things Work for Good to the Godly
... When the Lord has kept His people long fasting, then He ... Drunkenness is a disfiguring
sin, it turns men into beasts ... The black face of sin sets off the beauty of ...
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Matt. Ix. 9
... anoint thy head, and wash thy face;" [1280] foreknowing ... For fasting is a melancholy
thing, not in its ... go this adorning, or rather disfiguring, cultivate that ...
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Three Homilies. On Our Lord.
... artificers; and by their adornments were disfiguring their adorners. ... food that fattens
bodies, to fasting that fattens ... rain binds and hardens the face of the ...
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Face

Face: Character Revealed In

Face: Covering of

Face: Disfiguring of, in Fasting

Face: Transfiguring of Jesus

Face: Transfiguring of Moses

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