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Isaiah 58:3-5
“ Why have we fasted, but you have not seen? We have denied ourselves, but you haven’t noticed!”“ Look, you do as you please on the day of your fast, and oppress all your workers.You fast with contention and strife to strike viciously with your fist. You cannot fast as you do today, hoping to make your voice heard on high.Will the fast I choose be like this: A day for a person to deny himself, to bow his head like a reed, and to spread out sackcloth and ashes? Will you call this a fast and a day acceptable to the LORD?
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Luke 18:12
I fast twice a week; I give a tenth of everything I get.’
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Psalms 69:10
I mourned and fasted, but it brought me insults.
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Nehemiah 1:4
When I heard these words, I sat down and wept. I mourned for a number of days, fasting and praying before the God of the heavens.
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Matthew 9:14-15
Then John’s disciples came to him, saying,“ Why do we and the Pharisees fast often, but your disciples do not fast?”Jesus said to them,“ Can the wedding guests be sad while the groom is with them? The time will come when the groom will be taken away from them, and then they will fast.
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Daniel 9:3
So I turned my attention to the Lord God to seek him by prayer and petitions, with fasting, sackcloth, and ashes.
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Zechariah 7:3-5
by asking the priests who were at the house of the LORD of Armies as well as the prophets,“ Should we mourn and fast in the fifth month as we have done these many years?”Then the word of the LORD of Armies came to me:“ Ask all the people of the land and the priests: When you fasted and lamented in the fifth and in the seventh months for these seventy years, did you really fast for me?
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Matthew 6:5
“ Whenever you pray, you must not be like the hypocrites, because they love to pray standing in the synagogues and on the street corners to be seen by people. Truly I tell you, they have their reward.
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2 Samuel 12 16
David pleaded with God for the boy. He fasted, went home, and spent the night lying on the ground.
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Psalms 35:13
Yet when they were sick, my clothing was sackcloth; I humbled myself with fasting, and my prayer was genuine.
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Matthew 6:2
So whenever you give to the poor, don’t sound a trumpet before you, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and on the streets, to be applauded by people. Truly I tell you, they have their reward.
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Mark 2:18
Now John’s disciples and the Pharisees were fasting. People came and asked him,“ Why do John’s disciples and the Pharisees’ disciples fast, but your disciples do not fast?”
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Malachi 3:14
You have said,“ It is useless to serve God. What have we gained by keeping his requirements and walking mournfully before the LORD of Armies?
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2 Samuel 12 21
His servants asked him,“ Why have you done this? While the baby was alive, you fasted and wept, but when he died, you got up and ate food.”
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Esther 4:16
“ Go and assemble all the Jews who can be found in Susa and fast for me. Don’t eat or drink for three days, night or day. I and my female servants will also fast in the same way. After that, I will go to the king even if it is against the law. If I perish, I perish.”
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Luke 2:37
and was a widow for eighty-four years. She did not leave the temple, serving God night and day with fasting and prayers.
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2 Corinthians 6 5
by beatings, by imprisonments, by riots, by labors, by sleepless nights, by times of hunger,
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1 Kings 21 27
When Ahab heard these words, he tore his clothes, put sackcloth over his body, and fasted. He lay down in sackcloth and walked around subdued.
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Psalms 109:24
My knees are weak from fasting, and my body is emaciated.
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2 Corinthians 11 27
toil and hardship, many sleepless nights, hunger and thirst, often without food, cold, and without clothing.
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Acts 14:23
When they had appointed elders for them in every church and prayed with fasting, they committed them to the Lord in whom they had believed.
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Acts 13:2-3
As they were worshiping the Lord and fasting, the Holy Spirit said,“ Set apart for me Barnabas and Saul for the work to which I have called them.”Then after they had fasted, prayed, and laid hands on them, they sent them off.
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1 Corinthians 7 5
Do not deprive one another— except when you agree for a time, to devote yourselves to prayer. Then come together again; otherwise, Satan may tempt you because of your lack of self-control.
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Acts 10:30
Cornelius replied,“ Four days ago at this hour, at three in the afternoon, I was praying in my house. Just then a man in dazzling clothing stood before me