50 Bible Verses About Fasting

“The priest shall set the woman before Yahweh, and let the hair of the woman’s head go loose, and put the meal offering of memorial in her hands, which is the meal offering of jealousy. The priest shall have in his hand the water of bitterness that brings a curse.”

“and a basket of unleavened bread, cakes of fine flour mixed with oil, and unleavened wafers anointed with oil, and their meal offering, and their drink offerings.”

“Then all the children of Israel, and all the people, went up, and came to Bethel, and wept, and sat there before Yahweh, and fasted that day until evening; then they offered burnt offerings and peace offerings before Yahweh.”

“They gathered together to Mizpah, and drew water, and poured it out before Yahweh, and fasted on that day, and said there, “We have sinned against Yahweh.” Samuel judged the children of Israel in Mizpah.”

“David therefore begged God for the child; and David fasted, and went in, and lay all night on the ground.”

“She wrote in the letters, saying, “Proclaim a fast, and set Naboth on high among the people.”

“A man from Baal Shalishah came, and brought the man of God some bread of the first fruits: twenty loaves of barley and fresh ears of grain in his sack. He said, “Give to the people, that they may eat.””

“Then I proclaimed a fast there, at the river Ahava, that we might humble ourselves before our God, to seek from him a straight way for us, and for our little ones, and for all our possessions.”

“So we fasted and begged our God for this: and he granted our request.”

“Now while Ezra prayed and made confession, weeping and casting himself down before God’s house, there was gathered together to him out of Israel a very great assembly of men and women and children; for the people wept very bitterly.”

“When I heard these words, I sat down and wept, and mourned several days; and I fasted and prayed before the GodThe Hebrew word rendered “God” is “אֱלֹהִ֑ים” (Elohim). of heaven,”

“for the show bread, for the continual meal offering, for the continual burnt offering, for the Sabbaths, for the new moons, for the set feasts, and for the holy things, and for the sin offerings to make atonement for Israel, and for all the work of the house of our God.”

““Go, gather together all the Jews who are present in Shushan, and fast for me, and neither eat nor drink three days, night or day. I and my maidens will also fast the same way. Then I will go in to the king, which is against the law; and if I perish, I perish.””

“But as for me, when they were sick, my clothing was sackcloth. I afflicted my soul with fasting. My prayer returned into my own bosom.”

“Offer to God the sacrifice of thanksgiving. Pay your vows to the Most High.”

“When I wept and I fasted, that was to my reproach.”

“‘Why have we fasted,’ say they, ‘and you don’t see? Why have we afflicted our soul, and you don’t notice?’ “Behold, in the day of your fast you find pleasure, and oppress all your laborers.”

“Is this the fast that I have chosen? A day for a man to humble his soul? Is it to bow down his head like a reed, and to spread sackcloth and ashes under himself? Will you call this a fast, and an acceptable day to Yahweh?”

““Isn’t this the fast that I have chosen: to release the bonds of wickedness, to undo the straps of the yoke, to let the oppressed go free, and that you break every yoke?”

“I set my face to the Lord God, to seek by prayer and petitions, with fasting and sackcloth and ashes.”

“Sanctify a fast. Call a solemn assembly. Gather the elders, and all the inhabitants of the land, to the house of Yahweh, your God, and cry to Yahweh.”

““Yet even now,” says Yahweh, “turn to me with all your heart, and with fasting, and with weeping, and with mourning.””

“Blow the trumpet in Zion! Sanctify a fast. Call a solemn assembly.”

““Go to Bethel, and sin; to Gilgal, and sin more. Bring your sacrifices every morning, your tithes every three days,”

“offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving of that which is leavened, and proclaim free will offerings and brag about them: for this pleases you, you children of Israel,” says the Lord Yahweh.”

““Speak to all the people of the land, and to the priests, saying, ‘When you fasted and mourned in the fifth and in the seventh month for these seventy years, did you at all fast to me, really to me?”

“When he had fasted forty days and forty nights, he was hungry afterward.”

“Blessed are those who hunger and thirst after righteousness, for they shall be filled.”

““Moreover when you fast, don’t be like the hypocrites, with sad faces. For they disfigure their faces, that they may be seen by men to be fasting. Most certainly I tell you, they have received their reward.”

“But you, when you fast, anoint your head, and wash your face;”

“so that you are not seen by men to be fasting, but by your Father who is in secret, and your Father, who sees in secret, will reward you.”

“Then John’s disciples came to him, saying, “Why do we and the Pharisees fast often, but your disciples don’t fast?””

“But this kind doesn’t go out except by prayer and fasting.” NU omits verse 21.”

“John’s disciples and the Pharisees were fasting, and they came and asked him, “Why do John’s disciples and the disciples of the Pharisees fast, but your disciples don’t fast?””

“He said to them, “This kind can come out by nothing, except by prayer and fasting.””

“for forty days, being tempted by the devil. He ate nothing in those days. Afterward, when they were completed, he was hungry.”

“He said to all, “If anyone desires to come after me, let him deny himself, take up his cross,TR, NU add “daily” and follow me.”

“I fast twice a week. I give tithes of all that I get.’”

“that you abstain from things sacrificed to idols, from blood, from things strangled, and from sexual immorality, from which if you keep yourselves, it will be well with you. Farewell.””

“While the day was coming on, Paul begged them all to take some food, saying, “Today is the fourteenth day that you wait and continue fasting, having taken nothing.”

“rejoicing in hope; enduring in troubles; continuing steadfastly in prayer;”

“Don’t deprive one another, unless it is by consent for a season, that you may give yourselves to fasting and prayer, and may be together again, that Satan doesn’t tempt you because of your lack of self-control.”

“in beatings, in imprisonments, in riots, in labors, in watchings, in fastings;”

“in labor and travail, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, and in cold and nakedness.”

“with all prayer and requests, praying at all times in the Spirit, and being watchful to this end in all perseverance and requests for all the saints:”

“But you, man of God, flee these things, and follow after righteousness, godliness, faith, love, perseverance, and gentleness.”

“But you did follow my teaching, conduct, purpose, faith, patience, love, steadfastness,”

“Take, brothers, for an example of suffering and of perseverance, the prophets who spoke in the name of the Lord.”

“and in knowledge, self-control; and in self-control perseverance; and in perseverance godliness;”

“Here is the perseverance of the saints, those who keep the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus.””