12 Bible Verses about Fasting, Examples Of

So David made prayer to God for the child; and he took no food day after day, and went in and, stretching himself out on the earth, was there all night.

My knees are feeble for need of food; there is no fat on my bones.

Then, after hearing these words, for some days I gave myself up to weeping and sorrow, seated on the earth; and taking no food I made prayer to the God of heaven,

Go, get together all the Jews who are present in Shushan, and go without food for me, taking no food or drink night or day for three days: and I and my women will do the same; and so I will go in to the king, which is against the law: and if death is to be my fate, then let it come.

And turning my face to the Lord God, I gave myself up to prayer, requesting his grace, going without food, in haircloth and dust.

Then the disciples of John came to him, saying, Why do we and the Pharisees frequently go without food, but your disciples do not?

She had been a widow for eighty-four years); she was in the Temple at all times, worshipping with prayers and going without food, night and day.

And Cornelius said, Four days from now I was in my house in prayer at the ninth hour; and I saw before me a man in shining clothing,

And while they were doing the Lord's work, and going without food, the Holy Spirit said, Let Barnabas and Saul be given to me for the special work for which they have been marked out by me.

In blows, in prisons, in attacks, in hard work, in watchings, in going without food;

And when they had been without food for a long time, Paul got up among them and said, Friends, it would have been better if you had given attention to me and not gone sailing out from Crete, to undergo this damage and loss.

In hard work and weariness, in frequent watchings, going without food and drink, cold and in need of clothing.