33 Bible Verses about Fasting, Nature Of

And Ezra will rise up from before the house of God, and will go the chamber of Johanan son of Eliashib: and he will go there, he ate not bread and drank not water: for he was mourning for the transgression of the exiles.

And I will give my face to Jehovah God to seek prayer and supplications, with fasting and sackcloth and ashes:

And it being day, certain of the Jews having made a condition, anathematized themselves, saying, neither to eat or drink till they kill Paul.

And so she will do year by year when she went up to the house of Jehovah, so she will be grieved, and she will weep and will not eat

Then the king departed to his temple and passed the night fasting: and he brought not his concubines before him, and his sleep fled from him.

A Sabbath of rest it is to you; ye humbled your souls: in the ninth of the month, in the evening, from evening to evening shall ye celebrate your Sabbath.

And all the sons of Israel and all the people will go up, and they will come to the house of God, and they will weep, and they will sit there before Jehovah, and they will fast in that day till the evening, and they will bring up burnt-offerings and peace before Jehovah.

And they will mourn and weep, and fast, even till the evening, for Saul and for Jonathan his son, and for the people of Jehovah and for the house of Israel, because they fell by the sword.

And he was three days not seeing, and he ate not, nor drank.

And they will take their bones and bury under the tamarisk tree at Jabesh, and they will fast seven days.

And they will rise, every man of strength, and they will lift up the body of Saul and the bodies of his sons, and they will bring them to Jabesh, and they will bury their bones under an oak in Jabesh, and they will fast seven days.

And David will seek God for the boy, and fast a fast; and he came and passed the night and lay upon the earth. And the old men of his house will rise to him to lift him up from the earth; and he would not, and he ate not bread with them. And it will be in the seventh day, and the child will die. And David's servants feared to announce to him that the child died: for they said, Behold, in the child being living we spake to him and he heard not to our voice, and how shall we say to him the child died, and do evil?read more.
And David will see that his servants are whispering, and David will perceive that the child died: and David will say to his servants, Did the child die? and they will say, He died. And David will rise from the earth and wash, and be anointed, and he will change his garments, and will go into the house of Jehovah and worship, and go to his house; and he will ask and they will set bread to him, and he will eat.

And he will be there with Jehovah forty days and forty nights; he ate not bread and drank not water. And he will write upon the tables the words of the covenant, the ten words.

And he will rise and eat and drink, and go in the strength of that food forty days and forty nights, even to the mountain of God, Horeb.

And having fasted forty days and forty nights, afterwards he was hungry.

Being tempted forty days by the devil. And he ate nothing in those days: and they having ended, he afterward hungered.

And it was to you for a law forever: in the seventh month, in the tenth of the month ye shall humble your souls, and all work ye shall not do, the native and the stranger sojourning in the midst of you. For in that day he shall expiate for you, to cleanse you from all your sins: before Jehovah shall ye be clean. And this is a Sabbath of Sabbath to you, and ye humbled your souls, a law forever.

And Jehovah will speak to Moses, saying, But in this tenth of the seventh month, a day of expiation; shall be a holy calling to you, and ye humbled your souls, and brought a sacrifice to Jehovah. And any work ye shall not do in that self-same day, for it is a day of expiation, to expiate for you before Jehovah your God.read more.
For every soul which shall not be humbled in, that same day, and it was cut off from its people. And any soul which shall do any work in that same day, I destroyed that soul from the midst of its people. Any work ye shall not do: a law forever to your generations in all your dwellings. A Sabbath of rest it is to you; ye humbled your souls: in the ninth of the month, in the evening, from evening to evening shall ye celebrate your Sabbath.

And in the tenth to this seventh month a holy calling shall be to you: ye afflicted your souls: all work ye shall not do.

And a suitable time having intervened, and sailing being already dangerous, for the fast had already passed by, Paul advised,

Thus said Jehovah of armies: The fast of the fourth, and the fast of the fifth, and the fast of the seventh, and the fast of the tenth, shall be to the house of Judah for joy and for gladness, and for good appointments; and love ye truth and peace.

And he will send to the house of God, the chief of the treasure, and the friend of the king, and his men to beseech the face of Jehovah. To speak to the priests which were to the house of Jehovah of armies, and to the prophets, saying, Should I weep in the fifth month, separating myself according as I did, how many the years? And the word of Jehovah of armies was to me, saying,read more.
Say to all the people of the land, and to the priests, saying, When ye fasted and mourned in the fifth and in the seventh, and this seventy years, fasting, fasted ye to me, me?

The Pharisee having stood, prayed these to himself, O God, I return thee thanks that I am not as the rest of men, rapacious, unjust, adulterers, or also as this publican. I fast twice of the Sabbath; I pay tithes of all I possess.

And Jehoshaphat will fear, and he will give his face to seek to Jehovah, and he will call a fast for all Judah.

And the man Israel was pressed in that day: and Saul will curse the people, saying, Cursed the men who shall eat bread till the evening, and I was avenged of mine enemy. And all the people tasted not bread.

And the man of God will say to the king, If thou wilt give to me half thy house I will not go with thee, and I will not eat bread and I will not drink water in this place: For thus it was commanded me by the word of Jehovah, saying, Thou shalt not eat bread, and thou shalt not drink water, and thou shalt not turn back in the way which thou camest.

And she will write in the letters, Saying, Call a fast; set Naboth in the head of the people:

And it will be in the fifth year to Jehoiakim son of Josiah king of Judah, in the ninth month, they called a fast before Jehovah to all the people in Jerusalem, and all the people coming from the cities of Judah into Jerusalem.

And till it was about to be day, Paul besought all to take food, saying, Awaiting this day the fourteenth day, ye continue fasting, having taken nothing.

In blows, in imprisonments, in disorders, in fatigues, in watchings, in fastings;

In fatigue and toil, in watchfulnesses often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness.

And it will be in my hearing these words, I sat down, and I shall weep and mourn days; and I fasted and prayed before the God of the heavens,

And she a widow of about eighty-four years, who departed not from the temple, with fastings and supplications serving night and day.