And John's disciples and the Pharisees were fasting, and they came and asked him, "Why do the disciples of John and those of the Pharisees fast, but your disciples do not fast?"

And Jesus said to them, "Can the groomsmen fast while the bridegroom is with them? As long as they have the bridegroom with them, they cannot fast.

Then John's disciples came to him, saying, "Why do we and the Pharisees fast often, but your disciples do not fast?"

But the days will come when the bridegroom will be taken away from them, and then will they fast in those days.

But the days will come when the bridegroom will be taken away from them. Then they will fast in those days."

While the day was coming on, Paul begged them all to take some food, saying, "This day is the fourteenth day that you wait and continue fasting, having taken nothing.

And Jesus said to them, "Can the friends of the bridegroom mourn, as long as the bridegroom is with them? But the days will come when the bridegroom will be taken away from them, and then they will fast.

"Moreover when you fast, do not be like the hypocrites, with sad faces. For they disfigure their faces, that they may be seen by men to be fasting. Truly I tell you, they have received their reward.

They said to him, "The disciples of John often fast and pray, likewise also the disciples of the Pharisees, but yours eat and drink."

He said to them, "Can you make the friends of the bridegroom fast, while the bridegroom is with them?

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

When much time had passed and the voyage was now dangerous, because the Fast had now already gone by, Paul admonished them,

But you, when you fast, anoint your head, and wash your face;

but Christ is faithful as a Son over his house; whose house we are, if we hold fast our confidence and the glorying of our hope.

For we have become partakers of Christ, if we hold fast the beginning of our confidence firm to the end:

let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering; for he who promised is faithful.