12 Bible Verses about Fasting, Examples Of

David therefore besought God for the child. And David fasted, and went in, and lay all night upon the ground.

My knees are weak through fasting, and my flesh fails of fatness.

And it came to pass, when I heard these words, that I sat down and wept, and mourned certain days. And I fasted and prayed before the God of heaven,

Go, gather together all the Jews that are present in Shushan, and fast ye for me, and neither eat nor drink three days, night or day. I also and my maidens will fast in like manner. And so I will go in to the king, which is not acc

And I set my face to LORD God, to seek by prayer and supplications, with fasting and sackcloth and ashes.

Then the disciples of John come to him, saying, Why do we and the Pharisees fast much, but thy disciples fast not?

and this woman was a widow to eighty-four years), who did not depart from the temple, serving with fastings and supplications night and day.

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

And while they were serving the Lord, and fasting, the Holy Spirit said, Separate to me now Barnabas and Saul for the work that I have called them.

in stripes, in imprisonments, in tumults, in labors, in sleeplessness, in hungerings,

And being long without food, then Paul, who stood in the midst of them, said, Ye truly ought, O men, to have complied with me, not to launch from Crete, and gain this damage and loss.

in toil and hardship, in frequent sleeplessness, in hunger and thirst, in frequent fasts, in cold and nakedness.