Numbers 29:7
'And on the tenth of this seventh month a holy convocation ye have, and ye have humbled your souls; ye do no work;
Leviticus 16:29-31
And it hath been to you for a statute age-during, in the seventh month, in the tenth of the month, ye humble yourselves, and do no work -- the native, and the sojourner who is sojourning in your midst;
Psalm 35:13
And I -- in their sickness my clothing is sackcloth, I have humbled with fastings my soul, And my prayer unto my bosom returneth.
Acts 27:9
And much time being spent, and the sailing being now dangerous -- because of the fast also being already past -- Paul was admonishing,
Leviticus 23:26-32
And Jehovah speaketh unto Moses, saying,
Ezra 8:21
And I proclaim there a fast, by the river Ahava, to afflict ourselves before our God, to seek from Him a right way for us, and for our infants, and for all our substance,
Psalm 126:5-6
Those sowing in tears, with singing do reap,
Isaiah 22:12
And call doth the Lord, Jehovah of Hosts, In that day, to weeping and to lamentation, And to baldness and to girding on of sackcloth,
Isaiah 58:3-5
'Why have we fasted, and Thou hast not seen? We have afflicted our soul, and Thou knowest not.' Lo, in the day of your fast ye find pleasure, And all your labours ye exact.
Zechariah 7:3
speaking unto the priests who are at the house of Jehovah of Hosts, and unto the prophets, saying, 'Do I weep in the fifth month -- being separated -- as I have done these so many years?'
Zechariah 12:10
And I have poured on the house of David, And on the inhabitant of Jerusalem, A spirit of grace and supplications, And they have looked unto Me whom they pierced, And they have mourned over it, Like a mourning over the only one, And they have been in bitterness for it, Like a bitterness over the first-born.
Matthew 5:4
Happy the mourning -- because they shall be comforted.
Luke 13:3
No -- I say to you, but, if ye may not reform, all ye even so shall perish.
Luke 13:5
No -- I say to you, but, if ye may not reform, all ye in like manner shall perish.'
Romans 6:6
this knowing, that our old man was crucified with him, that the body of the sin may be made useless, for our no longer serving the sin;
1 Corinthians 9:27
but I chastise my body, and bring it into servitude, lest by any means, having preached to others -- I myself may become disapproved.
2 Corinthians 7:9-11
I now do rejoice, not that ye were made sorry, but that ye were made sorry to reformation, for ye were made sorry toward God, that in nothing ye might receive damage from us;
James 4:8-10
draw nigh to God, and He will draw nigh to you; cleanse hands, ye sinners! and purify hearts, ye two-souled!