Numbers 29:7
"You are to hold a sacred assembly on the tenth day of this same seventh month. You are to humble yourselves, and no servile work is to be done.
Leviticus 16:29-31
"This is to be a perpetual statute for you: On the tenth day of the seventh month, you (including both the native born and the resident alien) are to humble yourselves by not doing any work,
Psalm 35:13
But when they were sick, I wore sackcloth, humbled myself with fasting, and prayed from my heart repeatedly for them.
Acts 27:9
Much time had been lost, and because navigation had become dangerous and the day of fasting had already past, Paul began to warn those on the ship,
Leviticus 23:26-32
The LORD spoke to Moses,
Ezra 8:21
Then I called for a fast there at the Ahava River so we could humble ourselves before our God and seek from him an appropriate way for us and our little ones to live, and how we should guard our personal wealth,
Psalm 126:5-6
Those who weep while they plant will sing for joy while they harvest.
Isaiah 22:12
On that day the Lord GOD of the Heavenly Armies called for weeping and mourning, for shaving heads and wearing sackcloth.
Isaiah 58:3-5
"Why have we fasted,' they ask, "but you do not see? "Why have we humbled ourselves,' they ask, "but you take no notice?'" "Look! On your fast day you serve your own interest and oppress all your workers.
Zechariah 7:3
and to speak to the priests assigned to the Temple of the LORD of the Heavenly Armies along with the prophets, asking, "Am I to go about mourning, denying myself throughout the fifth month, as I have these many years?"
Zechariah 12:10
I will pour out on the house of David and on the residents of Jerusalem a spirit of grace and of supplications, and they will look to me the one whom they pierced.'"
Matthew 5:4
"How blessed are those who mourn, because it is they who will be comforted!
Luke 13:3
Absolutely not, I tell you! But if you don't repent, then you, too, will all die.
Luke 13:5
Absolutely not, I tell you! But if you don't repent, then you, too, will all die."
Romans 6:6
We know that our old natures were crucified with him so that our sin-laden bodies might be rendered powerless and we might no longer be slaves to sin.
1 Corinthians 9:27
No, I keep on disciplining my body, making it serve me so that after I have preached to others, I myself will not somehow be disqualified.
2 Corinthians 7:9-11
Now I am happy, not because you had such sorrow, but because your sorrow led you to repent. For you were sorry in a godly way, and so you were not hurt by us in any way.
James 4:8-10
Come close to God, and he will come close to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded.