16 Bible Verses about Fasting And Prayer

"But this kind is driven out by prayer alone."

"This kind can only be cast out by prayer," he replied.

"When you fast, do not look downcast like the hypocrites; for they disfigure their faces so that it may be apparent to men that they are fasting. In solemn truth I tell you, they already have received their reward.

"But when one of you fasts, let him anoint his head and wash his face,

So after fasting and praying, they laid their hands on them, and let them go.

Do not refuse one another, unless it is only temporary and by mutual consent, so that you may devote yourselves to prayer. Then come together again, lest through your lack of self-control Satan begin to tempt you to sin.

and then being a widow even for fourscore and four years. She departed not from the temple, but worshiped with the fasting and prayer, night and day.

Again they said unto him. "Why do the disciples of John fast frequently, and make supplications, as also do the disciples of the Pharisees, but your disciples are eating and drinking?"

And as they were worshiping the Lord, and fasting, the Holy Spirit said to them, "Separate me Barnabas and Saul for the work to which I have called them."

"so that he may not appear to men to be fasting, but to his Father who is in secret; and his Father who sees in secret will reward him.

And after he had fasted forty days and forty nights, he became hungry,

At that time the disciples of John came and asked him, "Why are we and the Pharisees always fasting, while your disciples are not?"

Cornelius answered. "Three days ago, at this very hour, I was praying in my house at three o'clock in the afternoon, when suddenly a man in a shining robe stood by me,

"'I fast twice a week, I pay tithes of all my possessions.'

They chose elders for them in every church, after prayer and fasting, and commended them to the Lord in whom they had believed.

"But we will give ourselves to prayer and to the ministry of the Word."