38 Bible Verses about Fasting And Prayer

Howbeit, this kind goeth not out but by prayer and fasting."

And he said unto them, "This kind can by no other means come forth, but by prayer and fasting."

"Moreover, when ye fast, be not sad as the hypocrites are: for they disfigure their faces, that they might be seen of men how they fast. Verily I say unto you, they have their reward.

But thou, when thou fastest, anoint thine head, and wash thy face,

Then fasted they and prayed, and put their hands on them, and let them go.

Withdraw not yourselves one from another except it be with consent for a time, for to give yourselves to fasting and prayer, and afterward come again to the same thing, lest Satan tempt you for your incontinency.

And she had been a widow about four score and four years of age, which went never out of the temple, but served God there with fasting and prayer night and day.

Then they said unto him, "Why do the disciples of John fast often and pray: and the disciples of the Pharisees also: and thine eat and drink?"

As they ministered to the Lord and fasted; The holy ghost said, "Separate me Barnabas and Saul, for the work whereunto I have called them."

that it appear not unto men how that thou fastest, but unto thy father which is in secret: and thy father, which seeth in secret, shall reward thee openly.

Behold when ye fast, ye can find your own lusts, and can call cruelly on all your debtors. Ye fast to law and strive and to smite with fist wickedly. Fast not as ye now do, to make your voice to be heard upon high.

and I turned me unto God the LORD, for to pray and make mine intercession, with fasting, sack cloth and ashes.

At the same time, I, Daniel, mourned for the space of three weeks,

And now therefore saith the LORD: Turn to me with all your hearts, in fasting and lamentation.

And when he had fasted forty days and forty nights, he was afterward a hungered.

Then came the disciples of John to him, saying, "Why do we and the Pharisees fast oft, but thy disciples fast not?"

And Jehoshaphat feared and set himself to seek the LORD, and proclaimed fasting throughout all Judah.

And David besought God for the boy and fasted and went and lay all night upon the earth.

And Cornelius said, "This day now four days I fasted, and at the ninth hour I prayed in my house, and behold, a man stood before me in bright clothing,

Proclaim a fasting, call the congregation, gather the elders and all the inhabiters of the land together in to the house of the LORD your God, and cry unto the LORD.

When I heard these words, I sat me down and wept, and mourned certain days, and fasted and prayed before the God of heaven,

So we fasted, and besought our God for this; and he heard us.

My knees are weak through fasting; my flesh is dried up for want of fatness.

Then said he unto me, "Fear not, Daniel: for why? Since the first day that thou set thine heart to understand, and didst chasten thyself before thy God: thy words have been heard. And I had come unto thee, when thou begannest to speak,

I fast twice in the week. I give tithe of all that I possess.'

'Go thou thy way then, and gather together all the Jews that are found at Susa, and fast ye for me, that ye eat not and drink not in three days, neither day nor night. I and my damsels will fast likewise, and so will I go in to the king contrary to the commandment: if I perish, I perish.'"

They seek of me righteous judgments, and will draw nigh unto God. Why have we fasted and thou hast not looked upon it? Have humbled our souls, and thou wouldest not wit it?

Then said Samuel, "Gather all Israel to Mizpeh, that I may pray for you unto the LORD."

Nevertheless, when they were sick, I put on sackcloth, and humbled my soul with fasting; and my prayer returned into mine own bosom.

And the people of Nineveh believed God, and proclaimed fasting, and arrayed themselves in sackcloth, as well the great as the small of them.

"Speak unto all the people of the land, and to the priests, and say, 'When ye fasted and mourned in the fifth and seventh month, now this seventy years, did ye fast unto me?

And she wrote in the letter, saying, "Proclaim fasting and set Naboth on high among the people,

And when they had ordained them elders by election in every congregation, after they had prayed and fasted, they commended them to God on whom they believed.

And even there at the water beside Ahava, I proclaimed a fast, that we might humble ourselves before our God, to seek of him a right way for us, and our children and all our substance.

Or is not this rather the fast that I have chosen? To loose wicked bonds, and to unbind bundles of oppression? And to let the bruised go free? And that ye should break all manner yokes?

"Thus sayeth the LORD of Hosts: The fast of the fourth month, the fast of the fifth, the fast of the seventh, and the fast of the tenth, shall be joy and gladness, and prosperous high feasts unto the house of Judah: Only, love the truth and peace.

but we will give ourselves continually to prayer, and to the ministration of the word."

In the four and twentieth day of this month came the children of Israel together with fasting, and sackcloth, and earth upon them,