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Matthew 6:16 (NIV)

“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 6:17 (NIV)

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

Matthew 6:18 (NIV)

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.

Isaiah 58:6 (NIV)

“Is not this the kind of fasting I have chosen: to loose the chains of injustice and untie the cords of the yoke, to set the oppressed free and break every yoke?

Isaiah 58:7 (NIV)

Is it not to share your food with the hungry and to provide the poor wanderer with shelter— when you see the naked, to clothe them, and not to turn away from your own flesh and blood?

Matthew 4:2 (NIV)

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

Mark 2:18 (NIV)

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?”

Psalms 109:24 (NIV)

My knees give way from fasting; my body is thin and gaunt.

Joel 2:12 (NIV)

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

1 Kings 21:9 (NIV)

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

Psalms 35:13 (NIV)

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

Daniel 9:3 (NIV)

So I turned to the Lord God and pleaded with him in prayer and petition, in fasting, and in sackcloth and ashes.

Luke 2:37 (NIV)

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

Nehemiah 9:1 (NIV)

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

Acts 14:23 (NIV)

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 13:2 (NIV)

While 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.”

2 Samuel 12:23 (NIV)

But now that he is dead, why should I go on fasting? Can I bring him back again? I will go to him, but he will not return to me.”

Esther 4:3 (NIV)

In every province to which the edict and order of the king came, there was great mourning among the Jews, with fasting, weeping and wailing. Many lay in sackcloth and ashes.

Isaiah 58:4 (NIV)

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.

‘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.

Jeremiah 36:9 (NIV)

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.

Esther 9:31 (NIV)

to establish these days of Purim at their designated times, as Mordecai the Jew and Queen Esther had decreed for them, and as they had established for themselves and their descendants in regard to their times of fasting and lamentation.

Jeremiah 36:6 (NIV)

So you go to the house of the Lord on a day of fasting and read to the people from the scroll the words of the Lord that you wrote as I dictated. Read them to all the people of Judah who come in from their towns.

Isaiah 58:5 (NIV)

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 ?

Mark 9:29 (NIV)

He replied, “This kind can come out only by prayer. ”