10 Bible Verses about Fasting, Nature Of

And when it was day, some of the Jews entering into a conspiracy, 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 having fasted forty days and forty nights, he was afterwards hungry.

Being forty days tempted by the devil. And in those days he ate nothing, and when they were ended he hungered.

And as much time was spent, and sailing was now dangerous, because the fast was already past,

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

And while the day was coming on, Paul exhorted them all to take food, saying, This day is the fourteenth that ye have tarried and continue fasting, having taken nothing.

in necessities, in distresses, In stripes, in imprisonments, in tumults, in labours, in watchings, in fastings;

In labour and toil, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness.

And she was a widow of about fourscore and four years, who departed not from the temple, but served God with fastings and prayers, night and day.