38 Bible Verses about Fasting And Prayer

But this kind goes not forth but by prayer and fasting.

And he said to them, This kind can go, out by nothing, but by prayer and fasting.

And when ye fast, be not, as hypocrites, of gloomy aspect: for they conceal their faces that they might appear to men fasting. Verily I say to you, That they have their reward.

And thou fasting, anoint thy head, and wash thy face;

Then having fasted and prayed, and put hands upon them, they let go.

Deprive ye not one another, except somewhat of an agreement for a time, that ye might have leisure for fasting and prayer; and again upon the same ye might come together, lest Satan tempt you for your want of self command.

And she a widow of about eighty-four years, who departed not from the temple, with fastings and supplications serving night and day.

And they said to him, Wherefore do the disciples of John fast frequently, and make prayers, and likewise they of the Pharisees; and they to thee eat and drink

And they serving the Lord, and fasting, the Holy Spirit said, Separate to me Barnabas and Saul to the work which I have called them.

That thou mightest not appear to men fasting, but to thy Father which in secret; and thy Father which in secret, will give back to thee openly.

behold, for contention and strife ye will fast, and to strike with the fist of injustice: ye shall not fast as today to cause your voice to be heard on high.

And I will give my face to Jehovah God to seek prayer and supplications, with fasting and sackcloth and ashes:

And in these days I Daniel was mourning three weeks of days.

And also now, says Jehovah, Turn back even to me with all your heart, and with fasting, and with weeping and with wailing.

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

Then came to him the disciples of John; saying, Wherefore do we and the Pharisees fast much, and thy disciples fast not?

And Jehoshaphat will fear, and he will give his face to seek to Jehovah, and he will call a fast for all Judah.

And David will seek God for the boy, and fast a fast; and he came and passed the night and lay upon the earth.

And Cornelius said, From the fourth day till this hour I was fasting; and the ninth hour praying in my house, and, behold, a man stood before me in bright clothing,

Consecrate a fast., call an assembly, gather together the old men, all the inhabitants of the land to the house of Jehovah your God, and cry to Jehovah.

And it will be in my hearing these words, I sat down, and I shall weep and mourn days; and I fasted and prayed before the God of the heavens,

And we will fast and seek of our God concerning this; and he will be entreated for us.

My knees were weak from fasting, and my flesh failed from fatness.

And he will say to me, Thou shalt not fear, Daniel: for from the first day that thou gavest thy heart to understand, and to humble thyself before thy God, thy words were heard, and I came for thy words.

I fast twice of the Sabbath; I pay tithes of all I possess.

Go collect together all the Jews being found in Shushan, and fast ye for me, and ye shall not eat and ye shall not drink three days, night and day also I and my maidens will fast thus and in this I will go in to the king which is not according to the edict; and according to that I perished, I perished.

For what did we fast, and thou sawest not? we humbled our soul and thou wilt not know? Behold, in the day of your fasting ye will find desire, and ye will exact all your labors.

And Samuel will say, Gather all Israel to Mizpeh, and I will pray for you to Jehovah.

And I, in their being sick, my clothing sackcloth: I humbled my soul in fasting, and my prayer shall be turned back upon my bosom.

And the men of Nineveh will believe in God, and they will call a fast, and put on sackcloth, from great and even to small.

Say to all the people of the land, and to the priests, saying, When ye fasted and mourned in the fifth and in the seventh, and this seventy years, fasting, fasted ye to me, me?

And she will write in the letters, Saying, Call a fast; set Naboth in the head of the people:

And having chosen them elders in the church, having prayed with fasting, they set them before the Lord, in whom they had believed.

And I shall call a fast there, upon the river Ahava, to humble ourselves before our God, to seek from him a straight way for us and for our little ones, and for all our substance.

Is not this the fast I shall choose? to loose the bands of injustice, to shake off the bundles of the yoke, and to send away the broken free, and ye shall break every yoke?

Thus said Jehovah of armies: The fast of the fourth, 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 for joy and for gladness, and for good appointments; and love ye truth and peace.

And we will persevere in prayer, and the service of the word.

And in the twenty and fourth day to this month, the sons of Israel were gathered together with fasting and with sackclothes, and earth upon them.