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Yet even now, says the LORD, return to me with all your… Joel 2:12

Yet even now, says the Lord,
return to me with all your heart,
with fasting, with weeping, and with mourning.
Joel 2:12 conversion fasting sadness
Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets. I have come not to abolish but to fulfill them.
Matthew 5:17 law Jesus prophecy

Therefore, heed my words. Do not be concerned about your life and what you will have to eat or drink, or about your body and what you will wear. Surely life is more than food, and the body is more than clothing.
Matthew 6:25 food life worrying
Do not be concerned about your life and what you will have to eat, or about your body and what you will wear. For life is more than food, and the body is more than clothing.
Luke 12:22b-23 worrying food life
Remember that you were once a slave in the land of Egypt. The Lord, your God, brought you out from there with a mighty hand and an outstretched arm. Therefore, the Lord, your God, has commanded you to observe the Sabbath day.
Deuteronomy 5:15 sabbath slavery
For this reason, he is the mediator of a new covenant, so that those who have been called may receive the promised eternal inheritance, since his death has served to redeem the sins that were committed under the first covenant.
Hebrews 9:15 law Savior mediator
Remember the Sabbath and keep it holy. Six days you shall labor and do your work, but the seventh day is the Sabbath in honor of the Lord your God. You shall not do any work, neither you, nor your son, nor your daughter, nor your male slave, nor your female slave, nor your animals, nor the foreigner who dwells with you. The Lord made the heavens and the earth and the seas and that which is in them in six days, but he rested the seventh day. Thus, the Lord blessed the Sabbath and declared it to be sacred.
Exodus 20:8-11 sabbath