“Go and assemble all the Jews who can be found in Susa, and fast for me. Do not eat or drink for three days, night or day, and I and my maidens will fast as you do. After that, I will go to the king, even though it is against the law. And if I perish, I perish!”
But I consider my life of no value to me, if only I may finish my course and complete the ministry I have received from
Jehoshaphat was alarmed and set his face to seek the LORD. And he proclaimed a fast throughout Judah.
“Yet even now,” declares the LORD, “return to Me with all your heart, with fasting, weeping, and mourning.”
For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for My sake will save it.
For I have chosen him, so that he will command his children and his household after him to keep the way of the LORD by d
On the first day of his journey, Jonah set out into the city and proclaimed, “Forty more days and Nineveh will be overtu
Be strong and let us fight bravely for our people and for the cities of our God. May the LORD do what is good in His sig
But if it is unpleasing in your sight to serve the LORD, then choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve, whethe
May God Almighty grant you mercy before the man, that he may release your other brother along with Benjamin. As for me,
On that day the Lord GOD of Hosts called for weeping and wailing, for shaven heads and the wearing of sackcloth.
On the third day, Esther put on her royal robes and stood in the inner court of the palace across from the king’s quarte
who have risked their lives for me. Not only I but all the churches of the Gentiles are grateful to them.
because he nearly died for the work of Christ, risking his life to make up for your deficit of service to me.
Consecrate a fast; proclaim a solemn assembly! Gather the elders and all the residents of the land to the house of the L
For three days he was without sight, and he did not eat or drink anything.
Right up to daybreak, Paul kept urging them all to eat: “Today is your fourteenth day in constant suspense, without taki
Then Paul answered, “Why are you weeping and breaking my heart? I am ready not only to be bound, but also to die in Jeru
He took his life in his hands when he struck down the Philistine, and the LORD worked a great salvation for all Israel.
For as Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of the great fish, so the Son of Man will be three days and th
When the angel who spoke to him had gone, Cornelius called two of his servants and a devout soldier from among his atten