10 Bible Verses about Fasting, Nature Of

In the morning, the Jews made a conspiracy and took an oath not to eat or drink till they had killed Paul.

and for three days he could not see, and neither ate nor drank.

And he fasted forty days and nights, and after it he was famished.

for forty days by the Spirit, and was tempted by the devil. In all those days he ate nothing, and when they were over he was famished.

As a great deal of time had now passed, and navigation had become dangerous, for the autumn fast was already over, Paul began to warn them.

The Pharisee stood up and uttered this prayer to himself: 'O God, I thank you that I am not like other men, greedy, dishonest, or adulterous, like that tax-collector. I fast two days in the week; I pay tithes on everything I get.'

Until daybreak Paul kept urging them all to take something to eat. "For fourteen days," he said, "you have been constantly on the watch, without taking anything to eat.

beatings, imprisonments, riots, labors, sleepless nights, and hunger,

through toil and hardship, through many a sleepless night, through hunger and thirst, often without food, and exposed to cold.

and she had been a widow until she was now eighty-four. She never left the Temple, but worshipped night and day with fasting and prayer.