Numbers 29:7
" 'And on the tenth of this seventh month you will have a holy convocation, and {you will afflict yourselves}; you will not do any work.
Leviticus 16:29-31
"And this shall be {a lasting statute} for you: in the seventh month, on the tenth of the month, you must deny yourselves and you must not do any work, [whether] the native or the alien who is dwelling in your midst,
Psalm 35:13
But as for me, when they were sick, my clothing [was] sackcloth. I weakened my soul with fasting, and my prayer {returned to me unanswered}.
Acts 27:9
And [because] considerable time had passed and the voyage was now dangerous because even the Fast was already over, Paul strongly recommended,
Leviticus 23:26-32
Then Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
Ezra 8:21
I proclaimed a fast there at the river Ahava to humble ourselves before our God in order to seek from him a safe journey for us, our children, and our possessions.
Psalm 126:5-6
Those who sow with tears shall reap with rejoicing.
Isaiah 22:12
And the Lord, Yahweh of hosts, called on that day for weeping and mourning, and for baldness and girding {with} sackcloth.
Isaiah 58:3-5
'Why do we fast, and you do not see [it]? We humiliate our soul, and you do not notice [it]?' Look! You find delight on the day of your fast, and you oppress all your workers!
Zechariah 7:3
saying to the {priests of the house of Yahweh of hosts} and to the prophets, "Should I mourn in the fifth month and keep myself separate as I have done for these many years?"
Zechariah 12:10
" 'I will pour on the house of David and on the inhabitants of Jerusalem a spirit of grace and supplication, and they will look to me whom they pierced, and they shall mourn over him, as one wails over an only child, and they will grieve bitterly over him as [one] grieves bitterly over a firstborn.
Matthew 5:4
Blessed [are] the ones who mourn, because they will be comforted.
Luke 13:3
No, I tell you, but unless you repent you will all perish as well!
Luke 13:5
No, I tell you, but unless you repent, you will all perish as well!"
Romans 6:6
knowing this, that our old man was crucified together with [him], in order that the body of sin may be done away with, [that] we may no longer be enslaved to sin.
1 Corinthians 9:27
But I discipline my body and subjugate [it], lest somehow [after] preaching to others, myself should become disqualified.
2 Corinthians 7:9-11
now I rejoice, not that you were grieved, but that you were grieved to repentance. For you were grieved according to [the will of] God, so that you suffered loss in no way through us.
James 4:8-10
Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse [your] hands, [you] sinners, and purify [your] hearts, [you] double-minded!