Bible Verses about Fasting

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• So we fasted and petitioned 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 injustice,
  to undo the thongs of the yoke,
  to let the oppressed go free,
  and to break every yoke?
  Isaiah 58:6neighborslavery
• But when you fast, put oil on your head and wash your face, so that your fasting may be seen not 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, says the Lord,
  return to me with all your heart,
  with fasting, with weeping, and with mourning.
  Joel 2:12conversionsadnessheart
• And whenever you fast, do not look dismal, like the hypocrites, for they disfigure their faces so as to show others that they are fasting. Truly I tell you, they have received their reward.
  Matthew 6:16humilityreward
• I had eaten no rich food, no meat or wine had entered my mouth, and I had not anointed 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
• Jesus, full of the Holy Spirit, returned from the Jordan and was led by the Spirit in the wilderness, where for forty days he was tempted by the devil. He ate nothing at all during those days, and when they were over, he was famished.
  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
• 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 neither eat nor drink for three days, night or day. I and my maids will also fast as you do. After that I will go to the king, though it is against the law; and if I perish, I perish.
  Esther 4:16