Bible Verses of Fasting

And when you were eating and drinking, were you not just feasting for yourselves?

Zechariah 7:6

“Ask all the people of the land and the priests, ‘When you fasted and mourned in the fifth and seventh months for the past seventy years, was it really for me that you fasted?

Zechariah 7:5

by asking the priests of the house of the Lord Almighty and the prophets, “Should I mourn and fast in the fifth month, as I have done for so many years?”

Zechariah 7:3

when I put on sackcloth, people make sport of me.

Psalms 69:11

When I weep and fast, I must endure scorn;

Psalms 69:10

Yet when they were ill, I put on sackcloth and humbled myself with fasting. When my prayers returned to me unanswered,

Psalms 35:13

On the twenty-fourth day of the same month, the Israelites gathered together, fasting and wearing sackcloth and putting dust on their heads.

Nehemiah 9:1

When I heard these things, I sat down and wept. For some days I mourned and fasted and prayed before the God of heaven.

Nehemiah 1:4

Jesus answered, “How can the guests of the bridegroom mourn while he is with them? The time will come when the bridegroom will be taken from them; then they will fast.

Matthew 9:15

Then John`s disciples came and asked him, “How is it that we and the Pharisees fast often, but your disciples do not fast?”

Matthew 9:14

so that it will not be obvious to others that you are fasting, but only to your Father, who is unseen; and your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you.

Matthew 6:18

But when you fast, put oil on your head and wash your face,

Matthew 6:17

“When you fast, do not look somber as the hypocrites do, for they disfigure their faces to show others they are fasting. Truly I tell you, they have received their reward in full.

Matthew 6:16

After fasting forty days and forty nights, he was hungry.

Matthew 4:2

John`s clothes were made of camel`s hair, and he had a leather belt around his waist. His food was locusts and wild honey.

Matthew 3:4

But the time will come when the bridegroom will be taken from them, and on that day they will fast.

Mark 2:20

Jesus answered, “How can the guests of the bridegroom fast while he is with them? They cannot, so long as they have him with them.

Mark 2:19

Now John`s disciples and the Pharisees were fasting. Some people came and asked Jesus, “How is it that John`s disciples and the disciples of the Pharisees are fasting, but yours are not?”

Mark 2:18

John wore clothing made of camel`s hair, with a leather belt around his waist, and he ate locusts and wild honey.

Mark 1:6

But the time will come when the bridegroom will be taken from them; in those days they will fast.”

Luke 5:35

Jesus answered, “Can you make the friends of the bridegroom fast while he is with them?

Luke 5:34

They said to him, “John`s disciples often fast and pray, and so do the disciples of the Pharisees, but yours go on eating and drinking.”

Luke 5:33

and then was a widow until she was eighty-four. She never left the temple but worshiped night and day, fasting and praying.

Luke 2:37

Gather the people, consecrate the assembly; bring together the elders, gather the children, those nursing at the breast. Let the bridegroom leave his room and the bride her chamber.

Joel 2:16

Blow the trumpet in Zion, declare a holy fast, call a sacred assembly.

Joel 2:15

“Even now,” declares the Lord, “return to me with all your heart, with fasting and weeping and mourning.”

Joel 2:12

Declare a holy fast; call a sacred assembly. Summon the elders and all who live in the land to the house of the Lord your God, and cry out to the Lord.

Joel 1:14

In the ninth month of the fifth year of Jehoiakim son of Josiah king of Judah, a time of fasting before the Lord was proclaimed for all the people in Jerusalem and those who had come from the towns of Judah.

Jeremiah 36:9

Is this the kind of fast I have chosen, only a day for people to humble themselves? Is it only for bowing one`s head like a reed and for lying in sackcloth and ashes? Is that what you call a fast, a day acceptable to the Lord?

Isaiah 58:5

Your fasting ends in quarreling and strife, and in striking each other with wicked fists. You cannot fast as you do today and expect your voice to be heard on high.

Isaiah 58:4

‘Why have we fasted,` they say, ‘and you have not seen it? Why have we humbled ourselves, and you have not noticed?` “Yet on the day of your fasting, you do as you please and exploit all your workers.

Isaiah 58:3

Then Ezra withdrew from before the house of God and went to the room of Jehohanan son of Eliashib. While he was there, he ate no food and drank no water, because he continued to mourn over the unfaithfulness of the exiles.

Ezra 10:6

So we fasted and petitioned our God about this, and he answered our prayer.

Ezra 8:23

There, by the Ahava Canal, I proclaimed a fast, so that we might humble ourselves before our God and ask him for a safe journey for us and our children, with all our possessions.

Ezra 8:21

I lay prostrate before the Lord those forty days and forty nights because the Lord had said he would destroy you.

Deuteronomy 9:25

Then once again I fell prostrate before the Lord for forty days and forty nights; I ate no bread and drank no water, because of all the sin you had committed, doing what was evil in the Lord`s sight and so arousing his anger.

Deuteronomy 9:18

When I went up on the mountain to receive the tablets of stone, the tablets of the covenant that the Lord had made with you, I stayed on the mountain forty days and forty nights; I ate no bread and drank no water.

Deuteronomy 9:9

Paul and Barnabas appointed elders for them in each church and, with prayer and fasting, committed them to the Lord, in whom they had put their trust.

Acts 14:23

So after they had fasted and prayed, they placed their hands on them and sent them off.

Acts 13:3

Alarmed, Jehoshaphat resolved to inquire of the Lord, and he proclaimed a fast for all Judah.

2 Chronicles 20:3

Then they took their bones and buried them under a tamarisk tree at Jabesh, and they fasted seven days.

1 Samuel 31:13

When Ahab heard these words, he tore his clothes, put on sackcloth and fasted. He lay in sackcloth and went around meekly.

1 Kings 21:27

They proclaimed a fast and seated Naboth in a prominent place among the people.

1 Kings 21:12

In those letters she wrote: “Proclaim a day of fasting and seat Naboth in a prominent place among the people.

1 Kings 21:9

all their valiant men went and took the bodies of Saul and his sons and brought them to Jabesh. Then they buried their bones under the great tree in Jabesh, and they fasted seven days.

1 Chronicles 10:12