16 Bible Verses about Fasting And Prayer

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He answered them, "This sort of thing can be driven out only by prayer."

"Also whenever you fast, you must not look gloomy like the hypocrites, for they put on a gloomy countenance, to let people see them fasting. I solemnly say to you, they already have their reward.

But whenever you, follower of mine, fast, perfume your head and wash your face,

So after fasting and praying, they laid their hands upon them and let them go.

You husbands and wives must stop refusing each other what is due, unless you agree to do so just for awhile, so as to have plenty of time for prayer, and then to be together again, so as to keep Satan from tempting you because of your lack of self-control.

She was very old; from girlhood she had lived seven years with a husband, and now had been a widow eighty years. She never left the temple, but continued to worship all day and all night with fastings and prayers.

After that they said to Him, "John's disciples rigidly practice fasting and offering up prayers; so do the Pharisees, but your disciples keep right on eating and drinking."

While they were worshiping the Lord and fasting, the Holy Spirit said, "Set apart for me Barnabas and Saul, for the work to which I have called them."

so that your fasting may be seen, not by men but by your Father who is unseen, and your Father who sees what is secret will reward you.

After fasting forty days and forty nights, He at last felt hungry.

Then John's disciples went up to Him, and said, "Why do we and the Pharisees practice fasting, but your disciples do not?"

Then Cornelius said, "Four days ago, about this hour, three o'clock in the afternoon, I was praying in my house, and all at once a man in dazzling clothing stood before me,

I fast two days in the week. I pay a tithe on everything I get.'

They helped them select elders in each church, and after praying and fasting they committed them to the Lord in whom they had believed.

while we will go on devoting ourselves to prayer and the word of God."