12 Bible Verses about Fasting, Examples Of

And David will seek God for the boy, and fast a fast; and he came and passed the night and lay upon the earth.

My knees were weak from fasting, and my flesh failed from fatness.

And it will be in my hearing these words, I sat down, and I shall weep and mourn days; and I fasted and prayed before the God of the heavens,

Go collect together all the Jews being found in Shushan, and fast ye for me, and ye shall not eat and ye shall not drink three days, night and day also I and my maidens will fast thus and in this I will go in to the king which is not according to the edict; and according to that I perished, I perished.

And I will give my face to Jehovah God to seek prayer and supplications, with fasting and sackcloth and ashes:

Then came to him the disciples of John; saying, Wherefore do we and the Pharisees fast much, and thy disciples fast not?

And she a widow of about eighty-four years, who departed not from the temple, with fastings and supplications serving night and day.

And Cornelius said, From the fourth day till this hour I was fasting; and the ninth hour praying in my house, and, behold, a man stood before me in bright clothing,

And they serving the Lord, and fasting, the Holy Spirit said, Separate to me Barnabas and Saul to the work which I have called them.

In blows, in imprisonments, in disorders, in fatigues, in watchings, in fastings;

And there being much abstinence from food, then Paul having stood in the midst of them, said, Truly it was fitting, O men, having obeyed me, not to be conveyed from Crete, and gain this violence and damage.

In fatigue and toil, in watchfulnesses often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness.