Isaiah 58:4
You fast for contention and strife and to strike with a wicked fist. You do not fast today to make your voice heard on high.
1 Kings 21:9-13
The letter she wrote is as follows: Let a time of public sorrow be fixed, and put Naboth at the head of the people.
Joel 2:13-14
Rip apart your heart, and not your garments. Turn to Jehovah your God! He is gracious and merciful. He is slow to anger and abundant in loving-kindness. He will turn back from doing harm.
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 wrongs have separated you from your God. Your sins have made him hide his face so that he does not even hear you.
Isaiah 59:6
Their webs cannot be used for clothes. They cannot cover themselves with their works for their works are evil. Their hands have committed acts of violence.
Jonah 3:7
He made proclamation and published it in Nineveh by the decree of the king and his nobles, saying: Let neither man nor beast, herd nor flock, taste anything; let them not eat, nor drink water.
Matthew 6:16-18
When you abstain from food, do not be like the hypocrites, with sad faces to be seen by men. They have received their reward.
Matthew 23:13
Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! You close the kingdom of heaven to people. You do not invite others to enter nor do you enter.
Luke 20:47
They devour widows' houses. They offer long prayers to show off in front of others. They shall receive great condemnation.
John 18:28
They lead Jesus from Caiaphas into the Praetorium. It was early and they did not enter directly into the Praetorium, that they might not be defiled, but might eat the Passover.
Acts 23:1-2
Paul looked straight at the Council and said: Fellow Israelites! My conscience is perfectly clear about the way in which I have lived before God to this very day.
Philippians 1:14-15
Most of the brothers trust in the Lord and boldly speak the word of God without fear because of my bonds.