16 Bible Verses about Fasting And Prayer

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And he said to them, "This kind can only come out by prayer."

"And when you fast, do not look gloomy, like the hypocrites, for they disfigure their faces that they may be seen by men to be fasting. Truly, I say to you, they have received their reward.

But when you fast, anoint your head and wash your face,

Then after they had fasted and prayed, they laid their hands on them and sent them off.

Do not deprive one another, except by agreement for a time, so that you may devote yourselves to prayer, and then come together again so that Satan will not tempt you because of your lack of self-control.

and as a widow till she was eighty-four. She did not depart from the temple, but worshipped with fasting and prayer night and day.

They said to him, "The disciples of John fast often and offer prayers, and so do the disciples of the Pharisees, but yours eat and drink."

While they were worshipping 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 you do not appear to be fasting to men, but to your Father who is in secret; and your Father who sees in secret will reward you.

And he fasted forty days and forty nights, and afterward he was hungry.

Then the disciples of John came to him, saying, "Why do we and the Pharisees fast, but your disciples do not fast?"

Cornelius said, "Four days ago to this hour, I was praying in my house during the ninth hour; and behold, a man stood before me in shining garments,

I fast twice a week; I give tithes of all that I get.'

And when they had appointed elders for them in every church, with prayer and fasting they committed them to the Lord in whom they believed.

But we will devote ourselves to prayer and to the ministry of the word."