Matthew 6:16
When you abstain from food, do not be like the hypocrites, with sad faces to be seen by men. They have received their reward.
Matthew 6:2
Do not loudly announce it when you give to the poor. The hypocrites do this in the houses of worship and on the streets. They do this to be praised by men. Believe me, they have already been paid in full.
Matthew 6:5
Do not pray like the hypocrites! They want everyone to see them in the houses of worship and on the street corners. I assure you they have been paid in full.
Psalm 35:13
But when they were sick, I wore sackcloth. I humbled myself with fasting. My prayer returned unanswered.
Psalm 69:10
When I wept and I fasted, that was to my reproach.
Isaiah 58:3-5
Why have we fasted and you do not see? Why have we humbled ourselves and you do not notice? Behold, on the day of your fast you find desire, and mistreat all your workers.'
Luke 18:12
I fast twice per week. I give tithes of all that I get.
2 Samuel 12:16
David pleaded with God for the child. He fasted and lay on the ground all night.
2 Samuel 12:21
We do not understand, his servants said, while the child was alive you would not eat. As soon as he died, you got up and ate!
1 Kings 21:27
Elijah finished speaking. Ahab tore his clothes and took them off. He dressed in sackcloth. He refused food (fasted) and slept in the sackcloth. He was gloomy and depressed.
Nehemiah 1:4
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.
Esther 4:16
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.
Psalm 109:24
My knees give way because I have been fasting. My body has become lean, without any fat.
Daniel 9:3
I looked to Jehovah God to seek by prayer and supplications, with fasting and sackcloth and ashes.
Zechariah 7:3-5
Therefore speak to the priests of the house of Jehovah of Hosts, and say to the prophets: Should I weep in the fifth month, separating myself, as I have done these many years?
Malachi 3:14
You have said: 'There is no value to serve God. What is the use of doing what he says or of trying to show Jehovah of Hosts that we are sorry for what we have done?'
Matthew 9:14-15
The disciples of John asked: Why do your disciples not fast? They frequently fasted, and so did the Pharisees.
Mark 2:18
John's disciples and the Pharisees were fasting. They came to him and asked: Why do John's disciples and the disciples of the Pharisees fast but your disciples do not?
Luke 2:37
She had been a widow eighty-four years. She never left the temple. She worshipped and fasted with supplications day and night.
Acts 10:30
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.
Acts 13:2-3
As they ministered to God, and fasted, the Holy Spirit said: Set Barnabas and Saul apart for the work I have called them.
Acts 14:23
When they had ordained elders in every congregation they prayed with fasting. They commended them to God, on whom they believed.
1 Corinthians 7:5
Do not deprive each other except by mutual consent for a time. That way you may give yourselves to fasting and prayer. Then come together again, that Satan may not tempt you because of your lack of self-control.
2 Corinthians 6:5
in beatings, in imprisonments, in tumults, in labors, in watching, in fasting;
2 Corinthians 11:27
In weariness and painfulness, in watching often, in hunger and thirst, in fasting often, in cold and nakedness.