Leviticus 23:32
It shall be a Sabbath of solemn rest for you, and you shall deny yourselves. In the ninth day of the month at evening, from evening to evening, you shall keep your Sabbath."
Leviticus 16:31
It is a Sabbath of solemn rest to you, and you shall afflict your souls; it is a statute forever.
Leviticus 23:27
"However on the tenth day of this seventh month is the day of atonement: it shall be a holy convocation to you, and you shall afflict yourselves; and you shall offer an offering made by fire to the LORD.
Psalm 35:13
But as for me, when they were sick, my clothing was sackcloth. I afflicted my soul with fasting; and my prayer returned into my own bosom.
Psalm 51:17
The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit. A broken and contrite heart, O God, you will not despise.
Psalm 69:10-11
When I wept and I fasted, that was to my reproach.
Psalm 126:5-6
Those who sow in tears will reap in joy.
Isaiah 57:15
For thus says the high and lofty One who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy: "I dwell in the high and holy place, with him also who is of a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite.
Isaiah 57:18-19
I have seen his ways, and will heal him: I will lead him also, and restore comforts to him and to his mourners.
Isaiah 58:3-7
'Why have we fasted,' say they, 'and you do not see? Why have we afflicted our soul, and you take no knowledge?' "Behold, in the day of your fast you find pleasure, and exact all your labors.
Isaiah 61:3
to appoint to those who mourn in Zion, to give to them a garland for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness; that they may be called trees of righteousness, the planting of the LORD, that he may be glorified.
Matthew 5:4
Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted.
Matthew 11:28-30
"Come to me, all you who labor and are heavily burdened, and I will give you rest.
1 Corinthians 11:31
For if we discerned ourselves, we would not be judged.
Hebrews 4:3
For we who have believed do enter into that rest, even as he has said, "As I swore in my wrath, they will not enter into my rest;" although the works were finished from the foundation of the world.
Hebrews 4:11
Let us therefore give diligence to enter into that rest, lest anyone fall after the same example of disobedience.