10 Bible Verses about Fasting, Nature Of

Then as soon as it was day, some of the Jews forming a conspiracy, bound themselves under the direst imprecation, declaring that they would neither eat nor drink till they had killed Paul.

And he was three days seeing nothing, and did neither eat nor drink.

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

being tempted forty days by the devil; and did eat nothing during those days: and when they were ended, afterwards he was hungry.

And much time being consumed, and sailing now becoming dangerous, because the fast was already past, Paul admonished them,

The Pharisee, standing by himself, made this prayer: God, I thank thee, that I am not as the rest of mankind, extortioners, unjust, adulterers, or as this tax-gatherer. I keep a fast twice a week, I pay the tenth of all things I possess.

And while they waited until the day should break, Paul exhorted them all to take some nourishment, saying, To day, expecting the fourteenth day, ye are continuing without food, taking nothing.

in stripes, in imprisonments, in tumults, in labours, in watchings, in fastings,

in labour and travail, in watchings often, in fastings frequently, in hunger and thirst, in cold and nakedness;

though she was now a widow, of about eighty-four years, who departed not from the temple, attending the divine service, with fastings and prayers night and day: