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Matthew 11:28-30
“ Come to me, all of you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest.Take up my yoke and learn from me, because I am lowly and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls.For my yoke is easy and my burden is light.”
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Leviticus 16:31
It is a Sabbath of complete rest for you, and you must practice self-denial; it is a permanent statute.
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Psalms 35:13
Yet when they were sick, my clothing was sackcloth; I humbled myself with fasting, and my prayer was genuine.
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Leviticus 23:27
“ The tenth day of this seventh month is the Day of Atonement. You are to hold a sacred assembly and practice self-denial; you are to present a food offering to the LORD.
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Isaiah 61:3
to provide for those who mourn in Zion; to give them a crown of beauty instead of ashes, festive oil instead of mourning, and splendid clothes instead of despair. And they will be called righteous trees, planted by the LORD to glorify him.
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Psalms 69:10-11
I mourned and fasted, but it brought me insults.I wore sackcloth as my clothing, and I was a joke to them.
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Psalms 51:17
The sacrifice pleasing to God is a broken spirit. You will not despise a broken and humbled heart, God.
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1 Corinthians 11 31
If we were properly judging ourselves, we would not be judged,
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Psalms 126:5-6
Those who sow in tears will reap with shouts of joy.Though one goes along weeping, carrying the bag of seed, he will surely come back with shouts of joy, carrying his sheaves.
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Isaiah 58:3-7
“ Why have we fasted, but you have not seen? We have denied ourselves, but you haven’t noticed!”“ Look, you do as you please on the day of your fast, and oppress all your workers.You fast with contention and strife to strike viciously with your fist. You cannot fast as you do today, hoping to make your voice heard on high.Will the fast I choose be like this: A day for a person to deny himself, to bow his head like a reed, and to spread out sackcloth and ashes? Will you call this a fast and a day acceptable to the LORD?Isn’t this the fast I choose: To break the chains of wickedness, to untie the ropes of the yoke, to set the oppressed free, and to tear off every yoke?Is it not to share your bread with the hungry, to bring the poor and homeless into your house, to clothe the naked when you see him, and not to ignore your own flesh and blood?
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Hebrews 4:11
Let us, then, make every effort to enter that rest, so that no one will fall into the same pattern of disobedience.
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Hebrews 4:3
For we who have believed enter the rest, in keeping with what he has said, So I swore in my anger,“ They will not enter my rest,” even though his works have been finished since the foundation of the world.
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Isaiah 57:15
For the High and Exalted One, who lives forever, whose name is holy, says this:“ I live in a high and holy place, and with the oppressed and lowly of spirit, to revive the spirit of the lowly and revive the heart of the oppressed.
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Isaiah 57:18-19
I have seen his ways, but I will heal him; I will lead him and restore comfort to him and his mourners,creating words of praise.” The LORD says,“ Peace, peace to the one who is far or near, and I will heal him.
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Matthew 5:4
Blessed are those who mourn, for they will be comforted.