9 Bible Verses about Fasting, Nature Of

And, when it was day, the Jews, making 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 seeing; and he neither ate, nor drank.

And, having fasted forty days and forty nights, He afterwards hungered.

forty days, being tempted by the Devil. And He ate nothing in those days; and, when they were completed, He hungered.

And much time having been spent, and sailing being already dangerous, because also the fast had already gone by, Paul was admonishing them,

The Pharisee, having taken his stand, was praying these things with himself: 'God, I thank Thee that I am not as the rest of men, extortioners, unjust, adulterers, or even as this tax-collector! I fast twice on the Sabbath; I give a tenth of all that I acquire.'

And, when the day was about to dawn, Paul was beseeching them all to take food, saying, "To-day is the fourteenth day ye, waiting, continue fasting, having taken nothing;

in stripes, in imprisonments, in tumults, in toilings, in watchings, in fastings;

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