10 Bible Verses about Fasting, Nature Of

And when it was day, the Jews combined together, and bound themselves under a curse, saying, that they would neither eat nor drink till they had killed Paul.

And he was three days without sight, and neither ate nor drank.

And when he had fasted forty days and forty nights, he was afterward hungry.

and was there forty days, to be tempted by the devil. And he ate nothing during those days; and when they were ended, he was afterward hungry.

But, after much time had been spent, and sailing was now dangerous, for the fast was already past, Paul admonished them,

The Pharisee stood and prayed thus with himself: God, I thank thee that I am not as other men, extortioners, unjust, adulterers, or even as this publican. I fast twice in the week; I give tithes of all that I possess.

And while the day was coming on, Paul exhorted them all to take food, saying: This is the fourteenth day that you have been in suspense, and continued without food, having taken nothing.

in stripes, in prisons,, in commotions, in labors, in watchings, in fastings;

in weariness and in toil, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness:

and she was a widow of about eighty-four years, and she departed not from the temple, but served, day and night, with fastings and prayers.