38 Bible Verses about Fasting And Prayer

Howbeit this lineage of demons does not go out but by prayer and fasting.

And he said unto them, This kind can come forth by nothing, but by prayer and fasting.

Moreover when ye fast, be not, as the hypocrites, of a sad countenance, for they disfigure their faces that they may appear unto men to fast. Verily I say unto you, They already have their reward.

But thou, when thou dost fast, anoint thine head, and wash thy face

And when they had fasted and prayed and laid their hands on them, they released them.

Do not defraud one another, except it be with mutual consent for a time, that ye may give yourselves to fasting and prayer and come together again, that Satan not tempt you for your incontinency.

and she was a widow eighty-four years, who departed not from the temple, serving night and day with fastings and prayers.

Then they said unto him, Why do the disciples of John fast often and make prayers and likewise the disciples of the Pharisees, but thine eat and drink?

As they ministered to the Lord and fasted, the Holy Spirit said, Separate me Barnabas and Saul for the work unto which I have called them.

that thou appear not unto men to fast, but unto thy Father who is in secret; and thy Father, who sees in secret, shall reward thee openly.

Behold, ye fast for strife and debate, and to smite with the fist of wickedness: ye shall not fast as ye do this day to make your voice to be heard on high.

And I turned my face unto the Lord God, seeking him in prayer and supplication, in fasting and sackcloth, and ashes:

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

Therefore also now, saith the LORD, turn unto me with all your heart and with fasting and with weeping, and with mourning:

And when he had fasted forty days and forty nights, afterwards he was hungry.

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

Then Jehoshaphat feared and set himself to seek the LORD and proclaimed a fast throughout all Judah.

David, therefore, besought God for the child, and David fasted and went in and lay all night upon the earth.

And Cornelius said, Four days ago I was fasting until this hour; and at the ninth hour I prayed in my house, and, behold, a man stood before me in bright clothing

Sanctify a fast, call a solemn assembly, gather the elders and all the inhabitants of the earth into the house of the LORD your God and cry unto the LORD.

And it came to pass, when I heard these words, that I sat down and wept and mourned certain days and fasted and prayed before the God of the heavens

So we fasted and besought our God for this, and he was intreated of us.

My knees are weak through fasting, and my flesh fails for lack of fatness.

And he said unto me, Fear not, Daniel: for from the first day that thou didst give thy heart to understand and to afflict thy soul before thy God, thy words were heard, and I am come because of thy words.

I fast two meals every sabbath; I give tithes of all that I possess.

Go, gather together all the Jews that are present in Shushan and fast for me, and neither eat nor drink for three days, night or day; I also and my maidens will fast likewise; and so I will go in unto the king, even though this is not according to the law; and if I perish, I perish.

Why have we fasted, they say, and thou dost not see? why have we afflicted our soul, and thou dost take no knowledge? Behold, in the day of your fast ye find your own pleasure and exact your own estates.

And Samuel said, Gather all Israel in Mizpeh, and I will pray for you unto the LORD.

But as for me, when they were sick, my clothing was sackcloth; I humbled my soul with fasting, and my prayer rose up in my bosom.

So the people of Nineveh believed God and proclaimed a fast and put on sackcloth, from the greatest of them even to the least of them.

Speak unto all the people of the land and to the priests, saying, When ye fasted and mourned in the fifth and seventh month, even those seventy years, did ye at all fast unto me, even to me?

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

And having ordained elders for them in every congregation and having prayed with fasting, they commended them to the Lord on whom they believed.

Then I proclaimed a fast there at the river of Ahava that we might afflict ourselves before our God, to seek of him a right way for us and for our little ones and for all our substance.

Is not rather the fast that I have chosen, to loose the bands of wickedness, to undo the ties of oppression, to release into freedom those who are broken, and that ye break every yoke?

Thus hath the LORD of the hosts said, 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 joy and gladness and cheerful feasts; therefore love the truth and peace.

And we will give ourselves continually to prayer and to the ministry of the word.

Now in the twenty-fourth day of this month, the sons of Israel were assembled with fasting and with sackcloth and earth upon them.