12 Bible Verses about Fasting, Examples Of

And David besought God for the child; and David fasted, and went in, and lay all night on the earth.

My knees are failing through fasting, and my flesh hath lost its fatness;

And it came to pass, when I heard these words, that I sat and wept, and mourned for days, and fasted, and prayed before the God of the heavens,

Go, gather together all the Jews that are found in Shushan, and fast for me, and neither eat nor drink three days, night or day: I also and my maidens will fast likewise, 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 often fast, but thy disciples fast not?

and herself a widow up to eighty-four years; who did not depart from the temple, serving night and day with fastings and prayers;

And Cornelius said, Four days ago I had been fasting unto this hour, and the ninth I was praying in my house, and lo, a man stood before me in bright clothing,

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

in stripes, in prisons, in riots, in labours, in watchings, in fastings,

And when they had been a long while without taking food, Paul then standing up in the midst of them said, Ye ought, O men, to have hearkened to me, and not have made sail from Crete and have gained this disaster and loss.

in labour and toil, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness.