12 Bible Verses about Fasting, Examples Of

And David prayed to God for the child. And David fasted, and went in and lay all night upon the earth.

My knees stumble from fasting; and my flesh is losing its fatness.

And it happened when I heard these words, I sat down and wept. And I mourned for days, and fasted, and prayed before the God of Heaven.

Go, gather all the Jews who are present in Shushan, and fast for me, and do not eat nor drink three days, night or day. My maidservants and I will also fast in the same way. And so I will go in to the king, which is not according to the law. And if I perish, I perish.

And I set my face toward the Lord God, to seek by prayer and holy desires, with fasting, and sackcloth, and ashes.

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

And she was a widow of eighty-four years, who did not depart from the temple, serving God with fastings and prayers night and day.

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.

As they ministered to the Lord and fasted, the Holy Spirit said, So, then, separate Barnabas and Saul to Me for the work to which I have called them.

in stripes, in imprisonments, in riots, in labors, in watchings, in fastings;

But there being much fasting, then standing up in their midst, Paul said, O men, being obedient to me you ought not to have set sail from Crete, and to have come by this harm and loss.

I have been in hardship and toil; often in watchings; in hunger and thirst; often in fastings; in cold and nakedness;