7 Bible Verses about Beating Oneself

But I discipline my body and keep it under control, lest after preaching to others I myself should be disqualified.

"Behold, I strike my hand at the dishonest gain that you have made, and at the blood that has been in your midst.

its mistress is stripped; she is carried off, her slave girls lamenting, moaning like doves and beating their breasts.

But the tax collector, standing far off, would not even lift up his eyes to heaven, but beat his breast, saying, 'God, be merciful to me, a sinner!'

And all the crowds that had assembled for this spectacle, when they saw what had taken place, returned home beating their breasts.

Cry out and wail, son of man, for it is against my people. It is against all the princes of Israel. They are delivered over to the sword with my people. Strike therefore upon your thigh.

For after I had turned away, I relented, and after I was instructed, I struck my thigh; I was ashamed, and I was confounded, because I bore the disgrace of my youth.'