12 Bible Verses about Fasting, Examples Of
Most Relevant Verses
Then David prayed to God for the child and fasted. He would even go and spend the night lying on the ground.
When I heard these things I sat down abruptly, crying and mourning for several days. I continued fasting and praying before the God of heaven.
"Go, assemble all the Jews who are found in Susa and fast in my behalf. Don't eat and don't drink for three days, night or day. My female attendants and I will also fast in the same way. Afterward I will go to the king, even though it violates the law. If I perish, I perish!"
So I turned my attention to the Lord God to implore him by prayer and requests, with fasting, sackcloth, and ashes.
Then John's disciples came to Jesus and asked, "Why do we and the Pharisees fast often, but your disciples don't fast?"
She had lived as a widow since then for eighty-four years. She never left the temple, worshiping with fasting and prayer night and day.
Cornelius replied, "Four days ago at this very hour, at three o'clock in the afternoon, I was praying in my house, and suddenly a man in shining clothing stood before me
While they were serving the Lord and fasting, the Holy Spirit said, "Set apart for me Barnabas and Saul for the work to which I have called them."
in beatings, in imprisonments, in riots, in troubles, in sleepless nights, in hunger,
Since many of them had no desire to eat, Paul stood up among them and said, "Men, you should have listened to me and not put out to sea from Crete, thus avoiding this damage and loss.
in hard work and toil, through many sleepless nights, in hunger and thirst, many times without food, in cold and without enough clothing.
