12 Bible Verses about Fasting, Examples Of

And David besought God for the boy and fasted and went and lay all night upon the earth.

My knees are weak through fasting; my flesh is dried up for want of fatness.

When I heard these words, I sat me down and wept, and mourned certain days, and fasted and prayed before the God of heaven,

'Go thou thy way then, and gather together all the Jews that are found at Susa, and fast ye for me, that ye eat not and drink not in three days, neither day nor night. I and my damsels will fast likewise, and so will I go in to the king contrary to the commandment: if I perish, I perish.'"

and I turned me unto God the LORD, for to pray and make mine intercession, with fasting, sack cloth and ashes.

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

And she had been a widow about four score and four years of age, which went never out of the temple, but served God there with fasting and prayer night and day.

And Cornelius said, "This day now four days I fasted, and at the ninth hour I prayed in my house, and behold, a man stood before me in bright clothing,

As they ministered to the Lord and fasted; The holy ghost said, "Separate me Barnabas and Saul, for the work whereunto I have called them."

in stripes, in prisonment, in strife, in labour, in watching, in fasting,

Then after long abstinence Paul stood forth in the midst of them and said, "Sirs, ye should have hearkened to me, and not have loosed from Crete, neither to have brought unto us this harm and loss.

in labour and travail, in watching often, in hunger, in thirst, in fastings often, in cold and in nakedness.