Fasting (Bible Verses)

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Matthew 4:1 KJV Bible Verse Image
Matthew 4:1 (KJV) »
Then was Jesus led up of the spirit into the wilderness to be tempted of the devil.

Daniel 9:3 KJV Bible Verse Image
Daniel 9:3 (KJV) »
And I set my face unto the Lord God, to seek by prayer and supplications, with fasting, and sackcloth, and ashes:

Joel 2:12 KJV Bible Verse Image
Joel 2:12 (KJV) »
Therefore also now, saith the LORD, turn ye even to me with all your heart, and with fasting, and with weeping, and with mourning:

Matthew 6:16 KJV Bible Verse Image
Matthew 6:16 (KJV) »
Moreover when ye fast, be not, as the hypocrites, of a sad countenance: for they disfigure their faces, that they may appear unto men to fast. Verily I say unto you, They have their reward.

Ezra 8:23 KJV Bible Verse Image
Ezra 8:23 (KJV) »
So we fasted and besought our God for this: and he was intreated of us.

Ezra 8:21 KJV Bible Verse Image
Ezra 8:21 (KJV) »
Then I proclaimed a fast there, at the river of Ahava, that we might afflict ourselves before our God, to seek of him a right way for us, and for our little ones, and for all our substance.

Matthew 4:2 KJV Bible Verse Image
Matthew 4:2 (KJV) »
And when he had fasted forty days and forty nights, he was afterward an hungred.

Deuteronomy 9:9 KJV Bible Verse Image
Deuteronomy 9:9 (KJV) »
When I was gone up into the mount to receive the tables of stone, even the tables of the covenant which the LORD made with you, then I abode in the mount forty days and forty nights, I neither did eat bread nor drink water:

Matthew 6:17 KJV Bible Verse Image
Matthew 6:17 (KJV) »
But thou, when thou fastest, anoint thine head, and wash thy face;

Matthew 9:15 KJV Bible Verse Image
Matthew 9:15 (KJV) »
And Jesus said unto them, Can the children of the bridechamber mourn, as long as the bridegroom is with them? but the days will come, when the bridegroom shall be taken from them, and then shall they fast.

Matthew 6:18 KJV Bible Verse Image
Matthew 6:18 (KJV) »
That thou appear not unto men to fast, but unto thy Father which is in secret: and thy Father, which seeth in secret, shall reward thee openly.

Zechariah 8:19 KJV Bible Verse Image
Zechariah 8:19 (KJV) »
Thus saith the LORD of hosts; The fast of the fourth month, and the fast of the fifth, and the fast of the seventh, and the fast of the tenth, shall be to the house of Judah joy and gladness, and cheerful feasts; therefore love the truth and peace.

Matthew 9:14 KJV Bible Verse Image
Matthew 9:14 (KJV) »
Then came to him the disciples of John, saying, Why do we and the Pharisees fast oft, but thy disciples fast not?

Isaiah 58:3 KJV Bible Verse Image
Isaiah 58:3 (KJV) »
Wherefore have we fasted, say they, and thou seest not? wherefore have we afflicted our soul, and thou takest no knowledge? Behold, in the day of your fast ye find pleasure, and exact all your labours.

Luke 4:2 KJV Bible Verse Image
Luke 4:2 (KJV) »
Being forty days tempted of the devil. And in those days he did eat nothing: and when they were ended, he afterward hungered.

Psalms 109:24 KJV Bible Verse Image
Psalms 109:24 (KJV) »
My knees are weak through fasting; and my flesh faileth of fatness.

Mark 2:18 KJV Bible Verse Image
Mark 2:18 (KJV) »
And the disciples of John and of the Pharisees used to fast: and they come and say unto him, Why do the disciples of John and of the Pharisees fast, but thy disciples fast not?

Daniel 10:3 KJV Bible Verse Image
Daniel 10:3 (KJV) »
I ate no pleasant bread, neither came flesh nor wine in my mouth, neither did I anoint myself at all, till three whole weeks were fulfilled.

Zechariah 7:2 KJV Bible Verse Image
Zechariah 7:2 (KJV) »
When they had sent unto the house of God Sherezer and Regemmelech, and their men, to pray before the LORD,

Numbers 29:7 KJV Bible Verse Image
Numbers 29:7 (KJV) »
And ye shall have on the tenth day of this seventh month an holy convocation; and ye shall afflict your souls: ye shall not do any work therein:

Ezekiel 45:25 KJV Bible Verse Image
Ezekiel 45:25 (KJV) »
In the seventh month, in the fifteenth day of the month, shall he do the like in the feast of the seven days, according to the sin offering, according to the burnt offering, and according to the meat offering, and according to the oil.

Daniel 10:4 KJV Bible Verse Image
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And in the four and twentieth day of the first month, as I was by the side of the great river, which is Hiddekel;

Psalms 69:10 KJV Bible Verse Image
Psalms 69:10 (KJV) »
When I wept, and chastened my soul with fasting, that was to my reproach.

Bible Theme & Topic Recap: Fasting

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