7 Bible Verses about Fasting, Examples Of

Then came to him the disciples of John, saying, Why do we and the Pharisees fast much, but your disciples fast not?

and she had been a widow eighty-four years, and departed not from the temple, serving God night and day with fastings and prayers.

And Cornelius said, From the fourth hour of the day I fasted till this hour, and at the ninth hour I was praying in my house, and behold, a man stood before me in splendid clothing,

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

in stripes, in imprisonments, in dissensions, in labors, in watchings, in fastings,

Then there having been long abstinence from food, Paul stood up in the midst of them and said, You ought, men, taking my advice, not to have sailed from Crete, and to have saved this injury and loss.

in labor and weariness, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness.