Bible Verses about Fasting

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• So we fasted and implored our God for this, and he listened to our entreaty.
  Ezra 8:23prayer
• Is not this the fast that I choose:
  to loose the bonds of wickedness,
  to undo the straps of the yoke,
  to let the oppressed go free,
  and to break every yoke?
  Isaiah 58:6neighborslavery
• But when you fast, anoint your head and wash your face, that your fasting may not be seen by others but by your Father who is in secret. And your Father who sees in secret will reward you.
  Matthew 6:17-18Fatherreward
• “Yet even now,” declares the Lord,
  “return to me with all your heart,
  with fasting, with weeping, and with mourning.”
  Joel 2:12conversionsadnessheart
• And when you fast, do not look gloomy like the hypocrites, for they disfigure their faces that their fasting may be seen by others. Truly, I say to you, they have received their reward.
  Matthew 6:16humilityreward
• I ate no delicacies, no meat or wine entered my mouth, nor did I anoint myself at all, for the full three weeks.
  Daniel 10:3foodwine
• Then after fasting and praying they laid their hands on them and sent them off.
  Acts 13:3blessingprayer
• And Jesus, full of the Holy Spirit, returned from the Jordan and was led by the Spirit in the wilderness for forty days, being tempted by the devil. And he ate nothing during those days. And when they were ended, he was hungry.
  Luke 4:1-2temptationJesusdevil
• 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.”
  Acts 13:2worshipSpiritprayer
• So he was there with the Lord forty days and forty nights. He neither ate bread nor drank water. And he wrote on the tablets the words of the covenant, the Ten Commandments.
  Exodus 34:28nearnesslawWord of God
• Go, gather all the Jews to be found in Susa, and hold a fast on my behalf, and do not eat or drink for three days, night or day. I and my young women will also fast as you do. Then I will go to the king, though it is against the law, and if I perish, I perish.
  Esther 4:16