37 Bible Verses about Fasting And Prayer

And he said to them, "This kind can come out by nothing except by prayer."

"Whenever you fast, do not be sullen like the hypocrites, for they make their faces unrecognizable in order that they may be seen fasting by people. Truly I say to you, they have received their reward in full!

But [when] you are fasting, {put olive oil on your head} and wash your face

Then, [after they] had fasted and prayed and placed [their] hands on them, they sent [them] away.

Do not defraud one another, except perhaps by agreement, for a time, in order that you may devote yourselves to prayer, and [then] you should be {together} again, lest Satan tempt you because of your lack of self control.

and herself [as] a widow up to eighty-four years) who did not depart from the temple with fastings and prayers, serving night and day.

And they said to him, "The disciples of John fast often and make prayers--likewise also the [disciples] of the Pharisees--but yours are eating and drinking!"

And [while] they were serving the Lord and fasting, the Holy Spirit said, "Set apart now for me Barnabas and Saul for the work to which I have called them."

so that you will not be seen by people as fasting, but to your Father who is in secret, and your Father who sees in secret will reward you.

Look! You fast to quarrel and strife, and to strike with a {wicked fist}. You shall not fast as [you do] {today}, to {make your voice heard} on the height.

Then I turned my face to the Lord God to seek [him] [by] prayer and pleas for mercy, in fasting and [in] sackcloth and ashes.

In those days, I, Daniel, I [myself] was [in] mourning {for three whole weeks}.

"And even now," {declares} Yahweh, "return to me with all your heart, with fasting, and weeping, and wailing."

and [after he] had fasted forty days and forty nights, then he was hungry.

Then the disciples of John approached him, saying, "Why do we and the Pharisees fast often, but your disciples do not fast?"

Then Jehoshaphat was afraid and set his face to seek Yahweh. And he called for a fast through all Judah.

David pleaded [with] God on behalf of the boy and David fasted. He went to spend the night and lay upon the ground.

And Cornelius said, "{Four days ago at this hour}, [the] ninth, I was praying in my house. And behold, a man in shining clothing stood before me

Solemnize a fast! Call an assembly! Gather [the] elders, all [of] the inhabitants of the land [in] the house of Yahweh your God, and cry out to Yahweh.

When I heard these words, I sat and wept and mourned for days, and I was fasting and praying before the God of the heavens.

So we fasted and sought our God for this and he responded to our prayer.

My knees {buckle} from fasting, and my body grows lean without fat.

And he said to me, "You must not fear, Daniel, for from the first day that you set your heart to understand and to humble yourself {before} your God, your words were heard, and I [myself] have come because of your words.

I fast twice a week; I give a tenth of all that I get.'

"Go, gather all the Jews that are found in Susa and fast for me; do not eat or drink [for] three days, both night and day. I and my young girls will fast likewise, and then I will go to the king, which [is] not according to the law; if I perish, I perish.

'Why do we fast, and you do not see [it]? We humiliate our soul, and you do not notice [it]?' Look! You find delight on the day of your fast, and you oppress all your workers!

Then Samuel said, "Gather all Israel to Mizpah, and I will pray to Yahweh for you."

But as for me, when they were sick, my clothing [was] sackcloth. I weakened my soul with fasting, and my prayer {returned to me unanswered}.

And the people of Nineveh believed in God, and they proclaimed a fast and put on sackcloth--from the greatest of them {to the least important}.

"Say to all the people of the land and to the priests: 'When you fasted and lamented in the fifth and seventh months for these seventy years, did you really fast for me?

She had written in the letters, saying, "Call a fast and seat Naboth at the head of the people.

And [when they] had appointed elders for them in every church, [after] praying with fasting, they entrusted them to the Lord, in whom they had believed.

I proclaimed a fast there at the river Ahava to humble ourselves before our God in order to seek from him a safe journey for us, our children, and our possessions.

Is this not [the] fast I choose: to release [the] bonds of injustice, to untie [the] ropes of [the] yoke, and to let [the] oppressed go free, and {tear} every yoke to pieces?

"Thus says Yahweh of hosts: 'The fast of the fourth [month], the fifth [month], the seventh [month], and the tenth [month] will be for the house of Judah jubilation and joy and merry festivals; therefore love truth and peace.'

But we will devote ourselves to prayer and to the ministry of the word."

On the twenty-fourth day of this month the {Israelites} gathered in fasting, in sackcloths, and with soil on them.