Isaiah 58:3
'Why do we fast, and you do not see [it]? We humiliate our soul, and you do not notice [it]?' Look! You find delight on the day of your fast, and you oppress all your workers!
Malachi 3:14
You have said, '[It is] useless to serve God! What [is the] gain if we keep his requirements, and if we walk as mourners {before} Yahweh of hosts?
Leviticus 16:29
"And this shall be {a lasting statute} for you: in the seventh month, on the tenth of the month, you must deny yourselves and you must not do any work, [whether] the native or the alien who is dwelling in your midst,
Nehemiah 5:7
I thought over this in my heart, and then I quarreled with the nobles and the prefects. I said to them, "You yourselves are taking interest from your own brother!" So I called the great assembly against them,
Exodus 2:23-24
{And then} during those many days, the king of Egypt died, and the {Israelites} groaned because of the work, and they cried out, and their cry for help because of the work went up to God.
Leviticus 16:31
It [is] {a Sabbath of complete rest} for you, and you shall deny yourselves--[it is] {a lasting statute}.
Leviticus 23:27
"Surely the Day of Atonement [is] on the tenth [day] of the seventh month; it shall be a holy assembly for you, and you shall deny yourselves, and you shall present an offering made by fire to Yahweh.
Numbers 23:4
And God met with Balaam, and he said to him, "I have arranged seven altars, and I have offered a bull and a ram on the altar.
Psalm 69:10
When I wept in the fasting of my soul, it became reproaches for me.
Proverbs 28:9
He who turns his ear from listening to instruction, even his prayer [is] an abomination.
Isaiah 22:13
But look! Joy and gladness, the killing of oxen and the slaughtering of sheep, the eating of meat and the drinking of wine! "Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die!"
Isaiah 47:6
I was angry with my people; I profaned my inheritance, and I gave them into your hand. You did not {give} them mercy; on [the] aged you made your yoke very heavy.
Jeremiah 34:9-17
to let go each one his [male] slave and each one his female slave, the Hebrew and the free Hebrew, [so that] no one among the Judeans [should] enslave his fellow countryman.
Daniel 10:2-3
In those days, I, Daniel, I [myself] was [in] mourning {for three whole weeks}.
Jonah 3:6-8
And the news reached the king of Nineveh, and he rose from his throne and removed his royal robe, put on sackcloth, and sat in the ashes.
Micah 3:9-11
Hear this, O rulers of the house of Jacob and leaders of the house of Israel, those detesting justice and perverting all that [is] right,
Zechariah 7:5-7
"Say to all the people of the land and to the priests: 'When you fasted and lamented in the fifth and seventh months for these seventy years, did you really fast for me?
Matthew 18:28-35
But that slave went out [and] found one of his fellow slaves who owed him a hundred denarii, and taking hold of him, he began to choke [him], saying, 'Pay back everything that you owe!'
Matthew 20:11-12
And [when they] received [it], they began to complain against the master of the house,
Luke 15:29
But he answered [and] said to his father, 'Behold, so many years I have served you, and have never disobeyed your command! And you never gave me a young goat so that I could celebrate with my friends!
Luke 18:9-12
And he also told this parable to some who trusted in themselves that they were righteous, and looked down on {everyone else}: