7 Bible Verses about Fasting, Examples Of

Then also come to Him the disciples of John, saying, Why do we and the pharisees fast much, but thy disciples do not fast?

and had been a widow about eighty four years; who departed not from the temple; serving God with fastings and prayers night and day.

And Cornelius said, Four days ago I was fasting till this hour, and at the ninth hour I was praying in my house, when behold a man stood before me in bright raiment,

and as they were ministring to the Lord, and fasting, the holy Spirit said, Separate me Barnabas and Saul, for the work to which I have called them.

in stripes, in imprisonments, in tumults, in labors, in watchings, in fastings;

But after long abstinence from food, Paul stood up in the midst of them and said, Sirs, ye should have hearkened unto me, and not loosed from Crete, and so have saved this damage and loss.

in labor and toil, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness: and beside these outward troubles,