16 Bible Verses about Fasting And Prayer

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He said to them, "This kind of thing can be driven out only by prayer."

"When you fast, do not put on a gloomy look, like the hypocrites, for they neglect their personal appearance to let people see that they are fasting. I tell you, that is all the reward they will get.

But when you fast, perfume your hair and wash your face,

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

You must not refuse each other what is due, unless you agree to do so for a while, to devote yourselves to prayer, and then to come together again, so that Satan may not tempt you through your lack of self-control.

and she had been a widow until she was now eighty-four. She never left the Temple, but worshipped night and day with fasting and prayer.

They said to him, "John's disciples observe frequent fasts and offer prayers, and so do the disciples of the Pharisees, but your disciples eat and drink."

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

so that no one may see that you are fasting, except your Father who is unseen, and your Father who sees what is secret, will reward you.

And he fasted forty days and nights, and after it he was famished.

Then the disciples of John came up to him and said, "Why is it that we and the Pharisees are keeping the fast, while your disciples are not keeping it?"

Cornelius answered, "Three days ago, just at this time of day, I was praying in my house about three o'clock, when a man in dazzling clothing stood before me,

I fast two days in the week; I pay tithes on everything I get.'

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

while we devote ourselves to prayer and to delivering the message."