7 Bible Verses about Fasting, Examples Of
Most Relevant Verses
Then the disciples of John came up to him and said, "Why is it that we and the Pharisees are keeping the fast, while your disciples are not keeping it?"
and she had been a widow until she was now eighty-four. She never left the Temple, but worshipped night and day with fasting and prayer.
Cornelius answered, "Three days ago, just at this time of day, I was praying in my house about three o'clock, when a man in dazzling clothing stood before me,
As they were engaged in worshiping the Lord and in fasting, the holy Spirit said, "Set Barnabas and Saul apart for me, for the work to which I have called them."
Then, when they had gone a long time without food, Paul got up among them, and said, "Gentlemen, you ought to have listened to me and not to have sailed from Crete and incurred this disaster and loss.
through toil and hardship, through many a sleepless night, through hunger and thirst, often without food, and exposed to cold.