Isaiah 58:4

True Fasts And Sabbaths

³ They seek of me righteous judgments, and will draw nigh unto God. Why have we fasted and thou hast not looked upon it? Have humbled our souls, and thou wouldest not wit it? ⁴ Behold when ye fast, ye can find your own lusts, and can call cruelly on all your debtors. Ye fast to law and strive and to smite with fist wickedly. Fast not as ye now do, to make your voice to be heard upon high. ⁵ Should it be such a manner of fast that I should chose? A day that a man should hurt his soul in? Or to bow down his head like a bulrush? Or to spread sackcloth and ashes under him? Shouldest thou call this a fast, and a day acceptable unto the LORD?

High Place

1 Kings 21:9-13

And she wrote in the letter, saying, "Proclaim fasting 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 full of mercy and compassion, long ere he be angry, and great in mercy and repentance when he is at the point to punish.

Proverbs 21:27

The sacrifice of the ungodly is abomination, for they offer the thing that is gotten with wickedness.

Isaiah 59:2

But your misdeeds have separated you from your God, and your sins hide his face from you, that he heareth you not.

Isaiah 59:6

Their web maketh no cloth and they may not cover themselves with their labours. Their deeds are the deeds of wickedness, and the work of robbery is in their hands.

Jonah 3:7

And it was cried and commanded in Nineveh by the authority of the king and of his lords, saying, "See that neither man or beast, ox or sheep taste ought at all, and that they neither feed or drink water."

Matthew 6:16-18

"Moreover, when ye fast, be not sad as the hypocrites are: for they disfigure their faces, that they might be seen of men how they fast. Verily I say unto you, they have their reward.

Matthew 23:13

Woe be unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, for ye shut up the kingdom of heaven before men: ye yourselves go not in, neither suffer ye them that come to enter in.

Luke 20:47

which devour widows' houses, and that under a colour of long praying: The same shall receive greater damnation."

John 18:28

Then led they Jesus from Caiaphas into the hall of judgment. It was in the morning, and they themselves went not into the judgment hall lest they should be defiled, but that they might eat the paschal lamb.

Acts 23:1-2

Paul beheld the council and said, "Men and brethren, I have lived in all good conscience before God until this day."

Philippians 1:14-15

Insomuch that many of the brethren in the Lord are boldened through my bonds, and dare more largely speak the word without fear.