Bible Verses about Fasting

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• Therefore, we fasted and prayed to God to grant us a safe journey, and he answered our prayer.
  Ezra 8:23prayer
• This rather is the type of fast that I wish:
  to loosen the fetters of injustice,
  to undo the thongs of the yoke,
  to set free those who are oppressed
  and to break every yoke.
  Isaiah 58:6neighborslavery
• But when you fast, put oil on your head and wash your face, so that the fact that you are fasting will not be obvious to others but only to your Father who is hidden. And your Father who sees everything that is done in secret will reward you.
  Matthew 6:17-18Fatherreward
• Yet even now, says the Lord,
  return to me with all your heart,
  with fasting, with weeping, and with mourning.
  Joel 2:12conversionsadnessheart
• Whenever you fast, do not assume a gloomy expression like the hypocrites who contort their faces so that others may realize that they are fasting. Amen, I say to you, they have received their reward.
  Matthew 6:16humilityreward
• I refrained from eating any choice food, abstaining from consuming meat or wine, and I did not anoint myself until those three weeks had passed.
  Daniel 10:3foodwine
• Then, after completing their fasting and prayer, they laid their hands on them and sent them off.
  Acts 13:3blessingprayer
• Filled with the Holy Spirit, Jesus returned from the Jordan and was led by the Spirit into the desert for forty days, where he was tempted by the devil. During that time he ate nothing, and at the end of it he was famished.
  Luke 4:1-2temptationJesusdevil
• On one occasion, while they were worshiping the Lord and fasting, the Holy Spirit said, “Set Barnabas and Saul apart for me to do the work to which I have called them.”
  Acts 13:2worshipSpiritprayer
• Moses remained with the Lord for forty days and forty nights without eating bread or drinking water. And he wrote the words of the covenant, the Ten Commandments, on the tablets.
  Exodus 34:28nearnesslawWord of God
• Go, and assemble all the Jews who are in Susa, and fast for me. Do not eat or drink for three days, night or day. My maids and I will do the same thing. After that, I will go to the king—against the law. And if I perish, I perish!
  Esther 4:16