sSee 1 John 1:9
Psalms 35:13
13But I, awhen they were sick—I bwore sackcloth;
I cafflicted myself with fasting;
I prayed dwith head bowed ▼
▼Or my prayer shall turn back
on my chest.Psalms 69:10
10When I wept and humbled ▼▼Hebrew lacks and humbled
my soul with fasting,it became my reproach.
Isaiah 58:3
3 g‘Why have we fasted, and you see it not?Why have we humbled ourselves, and you take no knowledge of it?’
Behold, in the day of your fast you seek your own pleasure, ▼
▼Or pursue your own business
iand oppress all your workers.
Isaiah 58:5
5 jIs such the fast that I choose,ka day for a person to humble himself?
Is it to bow down his head like a reed,
and to spread sackcloth and ashes under him?
Will you call this a fast,
and a day acceptable to the Lord?
Daniel 10:3
3I ate no delicacies, no meat or wine entered my mouth, nor did I lanoint myself at all, for mthe full three weeks.Daniel 10:12
12Then he said to me, n“Fear not, Daniel, for from the first day that you oset your heart to understand and phumbled yourself before your God, qyour words have been heard, rand I have come because of your words.1 Corinthians 11:31
31 sBut if we judged ▼▼Or discerned
ourselves truly, we would not be judged. 2 Corinthians 7:10-11
10For ugodly grief produces a repentance that leads to salvation without regret, whereas vworldly grief produces death. 11For see what earnestness this godly grief has produced in you, but also what eagerness to clear yourselves, what indignation, what fear, what longing, wwhat zeal, what punishment! At every point you have proved yourselves innocent in the matter.
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