7 Bible Verses about Beating Oneself

but I discipline my body and make it my slave, so that, after I have preached to others, I myself will not be disqualified.

“Behold, then, I smite My hand at your dishonest gain which you have acquired and at the bloodshed which is among you.

It is fixed:
She is stripped, she is carried away,
And her handmaids are moaning like the sound of doves,
Beating on their breasts.

But the tax collector, standing some distance away, was even unwilling to lift up his eyes to heaven, but was beating his breast, saying, ‘God, be merciful to me, the sinner!’

And all the crowds who came together for this spectacle, when they observed what had happened, began to return, beating their breasts.

Cry out and wail, son of man; for it is against My people, it is against all the officials of Israel. They are delivered over to the sword with My people, therefore strike your thigh.

‘For after I turned back, I repented;
And after I was instructed, I smote on my thigh;
I was ashamed and also humiliated
Because I bore the reproach of my youth.’