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 earth.

My knees are weak through fasting; And my flesh faileth 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 will I go in unto the king, which is not according to the law: and if I perish, I perish.

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

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

and she had been a widow even unto fourscore and four years), who departed not from the temple, worshipping with fastings and supplications night and day.

And Cornelius said, Four days ago, until this hour, I was keeping the ninth hour of prayer in my house; and behold, a man stood before me in bright apparel,

And as they ministered to the Lord, and fasted, the Holy Spirit said, Separate me Barnabas and Saul for the work whereunto I have called them.

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

And when they had been long without food, then Paul stood forth in the midst of them, and said, Sirs, ye should have hearkened unto me, and not have set sail from Crete, and have gotten this injury and loss.

in labor and travail, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness.