And Cornelius said, Four days ago I was fasting until this hour. And at the ninth hour I prayed in my house, and behold, a man stood before me in bright clothing.

And I set my face toward the Lord God, to seek by prayer and holy desires, with fasting, and sackcloth, and ashes.

And when you fast, do not be like the hypocrites, of a sad face. For they disfigure their faces so that they may appear to men to fast. Truly I say to you, They have their reward.

Then the disciples of John came to Him saying, Why do we and the Pharisees fast often, but Your disciples do not fast?

And she was a widow of eighty-four years, who did not depart from the temple, serving God with fastings and prayers night and day.

Do not deprive one another, unless it is with consent for a time, so that you may give yourselves to fasting and prayer. And come together again so that Satan does not tempt you for your incontinence.

in stripes, in imprisonments, in riots, in labors, in watchings, in fastings;

I have been in hardship and toil; often in watchings; in hunger and thirst; often in fastings; in cold and nakedness;

The holy

And while Peter thought on the vision, the Spirit said to him, Behold, three men are looking for you.

And coming through the Phrygian and the Galatian region; and by the Holy Spirit being forbidden to speak the Word in Asia;

But the one and the same Spirit works all these things, distributing separately to each one as He desires.

Separate

And He said to me, Go, for I will send you far away to the nations.

And Aaron shall offer the Levites before Jehovah for an offering of the sons of Israel, so that they may do the service of Jehovah.

Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, a called apostle, separated to the gospel of God

And how shall they preach unless they are sent? As it is written, "How beautiful are the feet of those who preach the gospel of peace and bring glad tidings of good things!"

But when it pleased God, who separated me from my mother's womb, and having called me by His grace,

for He working in Peter to the apostleship of the circumcision also worked in me to the nations.

And the things that you have heard from me among many witnesses, commit the same to faithful men who will be able to teach others also.

The work

But the Lord said to him, Go! For this one is a chosen vessel to Me, to bear My name before nations and kings and the sons of Israel.

And from there they sailed to Antioch, from where they had been recommended to the grace of God for the work which they fulfilled.

Therefore pray to the Lord of the harvest that He will send out laborers into His harvest.

And after these things the Lord appointed seventy others, And He sent them two and two before His face into every city and place where He was about to come.

Of this gospel I was made a minister, according to the gift of the grace of God given to me by the effectual working of His power.

To this I am ordained a preacher and an apostle (I speak the truth in Christ, I do not lie), a teacher of the nations, in faith and truth.

to which I am appointed a preacher and an apostle and a teacher of the nations.

And no man takes this honor to himself, but he who is called of God, as Aaron was.

General references

And you shall bring the Levites before Jehovah. And the sons of Israel shall put their hands upon the Levites.

Then the Spirit said to Philip, Go near and join yourself to this chariot.