10 Bible Verses about Fasting, Nature Of

When it was day, the Jews formed a conspiracy and bound themselves by an oath neither to eat nor drink until they had killed Paul.

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

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

being tempted for forty days by the devil. In those days he ate nothing, and when they had ended, he was hungry.

As much time had been lost, and the voyage was now dangerous because the fast had already gone by, Paul advised them,

The Pharisee stood and prayed thus with himself, 'God, I thank you that I am not like other menextortioners, unjust, adulterers, or even like this tax collector. I fast twice a week; I give tithes of all that I get.'

As day was about to dawn, Paul urged them all to take some food, saying, "Today is the fourteenth day that you have been in suspense and without food, having taken nothing.

in beatings, imprisonments, tumults, labors, sleeplessness, hunger,

I have been in labor and hardship, through many sleepless nights, in hunger and thirst, often without food, in cold and exposure.

and as a widow till she was eighty-four. She did not depart from the temple, but worshipped with fasting and prayer night and day.