16 Bible Verses about Fasting And Prayer

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He said to them, "Nothing can make this kind come out but prayer and fasting."

When you fast, do not look gloomy like the hypocrites, for they look woebegone to let men see they are fasting; I tell you truly, they do get 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 let them go.

Do not withhold sexual intercourse from one another, unless you agree to do so for a time in order to devote yourselves to prayer. Then come together again. You must not let Satan tempt you through incontinence.

and having been a widow for eighty-four years. She was never away from the temple; night and day she worshipped, fasting and praying.

They said to him, "The disciples of John fast frequently and offer prayers, as do the disciples of the Pharisees; but your adherents eat and drink."

As they were worshipping the Lord and fasting, the holy Spirit said, "Come! set me apart Barnabas and Saul for the work to which I have called them."

so that your fast may be seen not by men but by your Father who is in secret, and your Father who sees what is secret will reward you.

He fasted forty days and forty nights and afterwards felt hungry.

Then the disciples of John came up to him and said, "Why do we and the Pharisees fast a great deal, and your disciples do not fast?"

"Three days ago," said Cornelius, "at this very hour I was praying in my house at three o'clock in the afternoon, when a man stood before me in shining dress,

Twice a week I fast; on all my income I pay tithes.'

They chose presbyters for them in every church, and with prayer and fasting entrusted them to the Lord in whom they had believed.

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