When you fast, do not be somber like the hypocrites, for they disfigure their faces to show men they are fasting. Truly I tell you, they already have their full reward.
“Why have we fasted, and You have not seen? Why have we humbled ourselves, and You have not noticed?” “Behold, on the da
Then John’s disciples came to Jesus and asked, “Why is it that we and the Pharisees fast so often, but Your disciples do
When I heard these words, I sat down and wept. I mourned for days, fasting and praying before the God of heaven.
So I turned my attention to the Lord God to seek Him by prayer and petition, with fasting, sackcloth, and ashes.
I fast twice a week and pay tithes of all that I acquire.’
I wept and fasted, but it brought me reproach.
Now John’s disciples and the Pharisees were often fasting. So people came to Jesus and asked, “Why don’t Your disciples
Yet when they were ill, I put on sackcloth; I humbled myself with fasting, but my prayers returned unanswered.
Paul and Barnabas appointed elders for them in each church, praying and fasting as they entrusted them to the Lord, in w
“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 da
David pleaded with God for the boy. He fasted and went into his house and spent the night lying in sackcloth on the grou
And when you pray, do not be like the hypocrites. For they love to pray standing in the synagogues and on the street cor
So when you give to the needy, do not sound a trumpet before you, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and on the stre
by asking the priests of the house of the LORD of Hosts, as well as the prophets, “Should I weep and fast in the fifth m
While they were worshiping the Lord and fasting, the Holy Spirit said, “Set apart for Me Barnabas and Saul for the work
and then was a widow to the age of eighty-four. She never left the temple, but worshiped night and day, fasting and pray
When Ahab heard these words, he tore his clothes, put on sackcloth, and fasted. He lay down in sackcloth and walked arou
My knees are weak from fasting, and my body grows lean and gaunt.
Do not deprive each other, except by mutual consent and for a time, so you may devote yourselves to prayer. Then come to
You have said, ‘It is futile to serve God. What have we gained by keeping His requirements and walking mournfully before
in beatings, imprisonments, and riots; in labor, sleepless nights, and hunger;
“What is this you have done?” his servants asked. “While the child was alive, you fasted and wept, but when he died, you
in labor and toil and often without sleep, in hunger and thirst and often without food, in cold and exposure.
Cornelius answered: “Four days ago I was in my house praying at this, the ninth hour. Suddenly a man in radiant clothing