Isaiah 58:4
Behold, you fast for strife and debate, and to strike with the fist of wickedness: you shall not fast as you do this day, to make your voice to be heard on high.
1 Kings 21:9-13
And she wrote in the letters, saying, Proclaim a fast, and set Naboth on high among the people:
Joel 2:13-14
And tear your hearts, and not your garments, and turn unto the LORD your God: for he is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness, and relents from sending calamity.
Proverbs 21:27
The sacrifice of the wicked is abomination: how much more, when he brings it with a wicked mind?
Isaiah 59:2
But your iniquities have separated between you and your God, and your sins have hid his face from you, that he will not hear.
Isaiah 59:6
Their webs shall not become garments, neither shall they cover themselves with their works: their works are works of iniquity, and the act of violence is in their hands.
Jonah 3:7
And he caused it to be proclaimed and published through Nineveh by the decree of the king and his nobles, saying, Let neither man nor beast, herd nor flock, taste anything: let them not feed, nor drink water:
Matthew 6:16-18
Moreover when you 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.
Matthew 23:13
But woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for you shut up the kingdom of heaven against men: for you neither go in yourselves, neither allow you them that are entering to go in.
Luke 20:47
Who devour widows' houses, and for a show make long prayers: the same shall receive greater condemnation.
John 18:28
Then led they Jesus from Caiaphas unto the hall of judgment: and it was early; and they themselves went not into the judgment hall, lest they should be defiled; but that they might eat the passover.
Acts 23:1-2
And Paul, earnestly beholding the council, said, Men and brethren, I have lived in all good conscience before God until this day.
Philippians 1:14-15
And many of the brethren in the Lord, becoming confident by my bonds, are much more bold to speak the word without fear.