25 Bible Verses about fasting

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• Mark 2:18

  [Jesus Questioned About Fasting] Now John’s disciples and the Pharisees were fasting. Some people came and asked Jesus, “How is it that John’s disciples and the disciples of the Pharisees are fasting, but yours are not?”

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• Matthew 6:16

  [Fasting] “When you fast, do not look somber as the hypocrites do, for they disfigure their faces to show others they are fasting.

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• Matthew 4:2

  After fasting forty days and forty nights, he was hungry.

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• Psalms 109:24

  My knees give way from fasting; my body is thin and gaunt.

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• Daniel 9:3

  So I turned to the Lord God and pleaded with him in prayer and petition, in fasting, and in sackcloth and ashes.

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• 1 Kings 21:9

  In those letters she wrote: “Proclaim a day of fasting and seat Naboth in a prominent place among the people.

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• Luke 2:37

  She never left the temple but worshiped night and day, fasting and praying.

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• Joel 2:12

  [Rend Your Heart] “Even now,” declares the LORD, “return to me with all your heart, with fasting and weeping and mourning.”

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• Psalms 35:13

  Yet when they were ill, I put on sackcloth and humbled myself with fasting.

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• Acts 14:23

  Paul and Barnabas appointed elders for them in each church and, with prayer and fasting, committed them to the Lord, in whom they had put their trust.

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• Nehemiah 9:1

  [The Israelites Confess Their Sins] On the twenty-fourth day of the same month, the Israelites gathered together, fasting and wearing sackcloth and putting dust on their heads.

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• Isaiah 58:6

  “Is not this the kind of fasting I have chosen: to loose the chains of injustice and untie the cords of the yoke, to set the oppressed free and break every yoke?

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• Zechariah 7:1

  [Justice and Mercy, Not Fasting] In the fourth year of King Darius, the word of the LORD came to Zechariah on the fourth day of the ninth month, the month of Kislev.

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• Esther 4:3

  In every province to which the edict and order of the king came, there was great mourning among the Jews, with fasting, weeping and wailing.

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• Matthew 9:14

  [Jesus Questioned About Fasting] Then John’s disciples came and asked him, “How is it that we and the Pharisees fast often, but your disciples do not fast?”

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• Isaiah 58:1

  [True Fasting] “Shout it aloud, do not hold back. Raise your voice like a trumpet. Declare to my people their rebellion and to the descendants of Jacob their sins.

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• Matthew 6:18

  so that it will not be obvious to others that you are fasting, but only to your Father, who is unseen; and your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you.

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• Luke 5:33

  [Jesus Questioned About Fasting] They said to him, “John’s disciples often fast and pray, and so do the disciples of the Pharisees, but yours go on eating and drinking.”

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• Acts 13:2

  While they were worshiping the Lord and fasting, the Holy Spirit said, “Set apart for me Barnabas and Saul for the work to which I have called them.”

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• Esther 9:31

  to establish these days of Purim at their designated times, as Mordecai the Jew and Queen Esther had decreed for them, and as they had established for themselves and their descendants in regard to their times of fasting and lamentation.

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• 2 Samuel 12:23

  But now that he is dead, why should I go on fasting? Can I bring him back again?

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• Isaiah 58:4

  Your fasting ends in quarreling and strife, and in striking each other with wicked fists.

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• Jeremiah 36:9

  In the ninth month of the fifth year of Jehoiakim son of Josiah king of Judah, a time of fasting before the LORD was proclaimed for all the people in Jerusalem and those who had come from the towns of Judah.

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• Jeremiah 36:6

  So you go to the house of the LORD on a day of fasting and read to the people from the scroll the words of the LORD that you wrote as I dictated.

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• Isaiah 58:3

  “Yet on the day of your fasting, you do as you please and exploit all your workers.

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