12 Bible Verses about Fasting, Examples Of
Most Relevant Verses
My knees give way because I have been fasting. My body has become lean, without any fat.
After I heard these words I sat down on the ground and cried for days. I ate no food and offered prayer to the God of heaven.
Go assemble all the Jews who are present in Shushan, and fast for me. Take no food or drink night or day for three days. My women and I will do the same. Then I will go in to the king even though it is against the law. If death is to be my fate, then let it come.
I looked to Jehovah God to seek by prayer and supplications, with fasting and sackcloth and ashes.
The disciples of John asked: Why do your disciples not fast? They frequently fasted, and so did the Pharisees.
She had been a widow eighty-four years. She never left the temple. She worshipped and fasted with supplications day and night.
Cornelius replied, Four days ago I was praying at this hour. It was the ninth hour and I prayed in my house. A man dressed in bright clothing stood before me.
As they ministered to God, and fasted, the Holy Spirit said: Set Barnabas and Saul apart for the work I have called them.
After they spent a long time without eating Paul stood up and said: Sirs, you should listen to me. You should not have put out to sea from Crete to sustain this damage and loss.
In weariness and painfulness, in watching often, in hunger and thirst, in fasting often, in cold and nakedness.
