37 Bible Verses about Fasting And Prayer

And he said to them, "This kind cannot be driven out by anything but prayer."

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

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

Then after fasting and praying they laid their hands on them and sent them off.

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

and then as a widow until she was eighty-four. She did not depart from the temple, worshiping with fasting and prayer night and day.

And 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 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."

that your fasting may not be seen by others but by your Father who is in secret. And your Father who sees in secret will reward you.

Behold, you fast only to quarrel and to fight and to hit with a wicked fist. Fasting like yours this day will not make your voice to be heard on high.

Then I turned my face to the Lord God, seeking him by prayer and pleas for mercy with fasting and sackcloth and ashes.

In those days I, Daniel, was mourning for three weeks.

"Yet even now," declares the LORD, "return to me with all your heart, with fasting, with weeping, and with mourning;

And after fasting forty days and forty nights, 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?"

Then Jehoshaphat was afraid and set his face to seek the LORD, and proclaimed a fast throughout all Judah.

David therefore sought God on behalf of the child. And David fasted and went in and lay all night on the ground.

And Cornelius said, "Four days ago, about this hour, I was praying in my house at the ninth hour, and behold, a man stood before me in bright clothing

Consecrate a fast; call a solemn assembly. Gather the elders and all the inhabitants of the land to the house of the LORD your God, and cry out to the LORD.

As soon as I heard these words I sat down and wept and mourned for days, and I continued fasting and praying before the God of heaven.

So we fasted and implored our God for this, and he listened to our entreaty.

My knees are weak through fasting; my body has become gaunt, with no fat.

Then he said to me, "Fear not, Daniel, for from the first day that you set your heart to understand and humbled yourself before your God, your words have been heard, and I have come because of your words.

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

"Go, gather all the Jews to be found in Susa, and hold a fast on my behalf, and do not eat or drink for three days, night or day. I and my young women will also fast as you do. Then I will go to the king, though it is against the law, and if I perish, I perish."

'Why have we fasted, and you see it not? Why have we humbled ourselves, and you take no knowledge of it?' Behold, in the day of your fast you seek your own pleasure, and oppress all your workers.

Then Samuel said, "Gather all Israel at Mizpah, and I will pray to the LORD for you."

But I, when they were sick-- I wore sackcloth; I afflicted myself with fasting; I prayed with head bowed on my chest.

And the people of Nineveh believed God. They called for a fast and put on sackcloth, from the greatest of them to the least of them.

"Say to all the people of the land and the priests, When you fasted and mourned in the fifth month and in the seventh, for these seventy years, was it for me that you fasted?

And she wrote in the letters, "Proclaim a fast, and set Naboth at the head of the people.

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

Then I proclaimed a fast there, at the river Ahava, that we might humble ourselves before our God, to seek from him a safe journey for ourselves, our children, and all our goods.

"Is not this the fast that I choose: to loose the bonds of wickedness, to undo the straps of the yoke, to let the oppressed go free, and to break every yoke?

"Thus says the LORD of hosts: The fast of the fourth month 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 seasons of joy and gladness and cheerful feasts. Therefore love truth and peace.

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

Now on the twenty-fourth day of this month the people of Israel were assembled with fasting and in sackcloth, and with earth on their heads.