12 Bible Verses about Fasting, Examples Of

David therefore begged God for the child; and David fasted, and went in, and lay all night on the ground.

My knees are weak through fasting. My body is thin and lacks fat.

It happened, 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 who are present in Shushan, and fast for me, and neither eat nor drink three days, night or day. I and my maidens will also fast the same way. Then I will go in to the king, which is against the law; and if I perish, I perish."

And I turned to the Lord God, to seek by prayer and petitions, with fasting and sackcloth and ashes.

Then John's disciples came to him, saying, "Why do we and the Pharisees fast often, but your disciples do not fast?"

and she had been a widow for about eighty-four years), who did not depart from the temple, worshipping with fastings and petitions night and day.

Cornelius said, "Four days ago until this hour, the ninth hour, I was praying in my house, and behold, a man stood before me in bright clothing,

As they served the Lord and fasted, the Holy Spirit said, "Separate Barnabas and Saul for me, for the work to which I have called them."

in beatings, in imprisonments, in riots, in labors, in watchings, in fastings;

When they had been long without food, Paul stood up in the middle of them, and said, "Sirs, you should have listened to 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, and in cold and nakedness.