We show you the list with Fasting Verses in the Bible. We know that God is a God of forgiveness, of love, that is why we must fast, it is a form of sacrifice and to show God our faith in his word. Get inspired by these Fasting messages.
Fasting, defined as abstaining from food or drink to focus on prayer and seeking God’s will, is mentioned more than 70 times in the Bible. In the Old Testament there were two types of fasting: public and private. Both provide important spiritual benefits.
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We can know that God offers supernatural insight and revelation through fasting because of the countless examples of people who fasted in the Bible. Fasting was practiced by Moses, Daniel, and even Jesus. Fasting, according to the Scriptures, will help us develop a closer relationship with Christ and open our eyes to what He wants to teach us.
If you are not sure how to fast, such as how long to fast, what to abstain from, and how to pray, these fasting verses may help you.
fasting verses
Nehemiah 1:3-4
They replied: «Those who have survived captivity, back in the province, endure many hardships and humiliations. The walls of Jerusalem are in ruins and its gates have been burned down.” Hearing these words, I sat down to weep, and mourned for several days, fasting and praying before the God of heaven.
Psalm 35:13-14
I, on the other hand, when they were sick, covered me with penitent clothes, afflicted my soul with fasting and prayed with bowed head. They were like a friend or a brother to me, and I was sad and downcast, like someone mourning the death of their mother.
Matthew 4:2
After fasting forty days and forty nights, he felt hungry.
Job 41:17
When it rises, the waves tremble, the swell of the sea recedes.
Ezra 8:21-23
There, on the banks of the Ahava river, I proclaimed a fast, to humble ourselves before our God, in order to ask him for a happy journey for us and our children and for all our comings. Because it would have been shameful to ask the king for armed men and horsemen, to protect us on the road against the enemy. On the contrary, we had told the king: “The hand of our God is stretched out to bless all who seek him, and his power and his wrath fall on all who forsake him.” So we fasted and called on our God, and he heard us.
Acts 14:23
In each community they established presbyters, and with prayer and fasting, they commended them to the Lord in whom they had believed.
Daniel 10:3
I did not eat any exquisite delicacies; Neither meat nor wine entered my mouth, nor did I do any anointing, until three full weeks were completed.
2 Chronicles 20:3-4
Jehoshaphat, very frightened, decided to consult the Lord and proclaimed a fast throughout Judah. Judah gathered to implore the Lord, and people came from all the cities.
Joel 1:13-14
Dress in mourning and lament, priests! Giman, servants of the altar! Come, spend the night dressed in penance, ministers of my God! Because the House of their God has been deprived of offering and drink offering. Prescribe a fast, call a solemn meeting, assemble the elders and all the inhabitants of the land, in the House of the Lord, your God, and cry out to the Lord.
Luke 18:12
I assure you that the latter returned home justified, but not the former. For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and whoever humbles himself will be exalted.”
1 Samuel 14:24-30
The Israelites were exhausted that day, because Saul had pronounced on the people this imprecation: “Cursed is the man who eats anything until evening, before I have avenged myself on my enemies.” And nobody ate a single bite. So the people came to a forest where there was honey on the ground. Entering the forest, they saw that honey flowed there, but no one dared to taste it for fear of the oath. However, Jonathan had not heard when his father imposed the oath on the people. So he reached out with the cane in his hand, dipped the tip into the honey, and brought it to his mouth. Then his eyes lit up. But one of the troops intervened, saying: “Your father has imposed on the people this solemn oath: ‘Cursed is the man who eats anything today,’ and that the people are exhausted.” Jonathan replied: “My father has brought misfortune to the country. Look how my eyes have lit up just by tasting a bit of this honey! If today the troops had eaten the loot taken from the enemy, how much greater would have been the defeat of the Philistines!
Mark 9:29
He answered them: “This class of demons is expelled only with prayer.”
2 Samuel 12:15-17
And Nathan went home. Death of Bathsheba’s son and birth of Solomon The Lord struck the child that Uriah’s wife had given to David, and he fell gravely ill. David appealed to God on behalf of the child: he fasted rigorously, and when he retired at night, he lay down on the ground. The elders of his house insisted that he get up from the ground, but he refused and did not want to eat anything with them.
1 Samuel 7:6
They gathered at Mizpah, drew water and poured it out before the Lord; there they fasted that day, and said, “We have sinned against the Lord!” And Samuel judged the Israelites at Mizpah.
Matthew 4:4
Jesus replied, “It is written: ‘Man does not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God.'”
Fasting and Prayer Verses
Joel 2:12-15
But even now return to me wholeheartedly, with fasting, crying and lamentation. Tear his heart and not his garments, and return to the Lord, his God, for he is kind and compassionate, slow to anger and rich in faithfulness, and repents of your threats. Who knows if he will not turn back and repent, and leave behind him a blessing: the offering and the drink offering to the Lord, his God! Blow the trumpet in Zion, prescribe a fast, call a solemn meeting.
Luke 4:1-2
Jesus, filled with the Holy Spirit, returned from the banks of the Jordan and was led by the Spirit into the desert, where he was tempted by the devil for forty days. He did not eat anything during those days, and at the end of them he was hungry.
Jude 1:20-21
But you, my dear ones, build yourselves on the foundation of your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Spirit. Stay in the love of God, waiting for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ for eternal Life.
Zechariah 7:4-7
The word of the Lord came to me in these terms: Speak to all the people of the land and to the priests, saying: If you have fasted and lamented in the fifth and seventh month for seventy years, is it because of me that you have practiced those fasts? And when you eat and drink, don’t you do it for yourselves? Are not these the words that the Lord proclaimed through the ancient prophets, when Jerusalem was inhabited and quiet, surrounded by its cities, and the Negeb and Shephelah were populated?
Job 36:8
If sometimes they are bound with chains, or prisoners in the bonds of oppression.
Matthew 6:16-18
When you fast, do not make a sad face, as the hypocrites do, who disfigure their faces so that it can be seen that they are fasting. I assure you that with that, you have already received your reward. You, on the other hand, when you fast, perfume your head and wash your face, so that your fast is not known by men, but by your Father who is in secret; and your Father, who sees in secret, will reward you.
1 Kings 21:12
They proclaimed a fast and made Naboth sit in the front row.
Matthew 9:14-17
Then John’s disciples came and said to him, “Why don’t your disciples fast, as we and the Pharisees do?” Jesus answered them, “Can the husband’s friends be sad while the husband is with them? The time will come when the husband will be taken from them, and then they will fast. No one uses a new piece of fabric to mend an old dress, because the added piece pulls on the dress and the tear becomes larger. Nor is new wine put into old skins, because the skins burst, the wine spills, and the skins are lost. No, the new wine is put into new skins, and thus both are preserved!».
1 Samuel 31:13
Then they collected his bones, buried them under the Tamarisk of Iabés, and fasted seven days.
Acts 13:3-4
They, after fasting and praying, laid their hands on them and sent them away. Saul and Barnabas, sent by the Holy Spirit, went to Seleucia and from there they embarked for Cyprus.
Jeremiah 14:11-12
The Lord told me: Do not pray for this people, do not ask for their good. Though they fast, I will not hear their cries; Even if they offer burnt offerings and oblations, I will not accept them. Rather, I am going to exterminate them by the sword, by famine and pestilence.
Exodus 34:28
Moses was there with the Lord forty days and forty nights, without eating or drinking. And he wrote on the tablets the words of the covenant, that is, the Ten Commandments.
Daniel 9:3-5
I turned my face to the Lord God for an answer, with prayers and supplications. I prayed to the Lord, my God, and made this confession: «Ah, Lord, God, the Great, the Fearsome, the one who maintains the covenant and fidelity with those who love him and observe his commandments! We have sinned, we have failed, we have done evil, we have rebelled and we have separated from your commandments and your precepts.
2 Samuel 1:12
They lamented, wept and fasted until evening for Saul, for his son Jonathan, for the people of the Lord and for the house of Israel, because they had fallen by the edge of the sword.
Esther 4:16
“Go gather all the Jews who are in Susa, and fast for me. Do not eat or drink for three days, neither day nor night. I, for my part, will also fast together with my servants. This is how I will present myself to the king, even if he is against the law. And if it is necessary for him to die, I will die ».
Verses about Fasting and Forgiveness
Psalms 109:24
My knees buckle from fasting so much, and my body is weak and emaciated.
Nehemiah 9:1-3
On the twenty-fourth day of that month, the Israelites gathered for a fast, clothed in sackcloth and covered in dust. Those of the stock of Israel separated themselves from all foreigners and came forward to confess their sins and the faults of their fathers. Once located at their posts, for a quarter of the day they read the book of the Law of the Lord, their God, and for another quarter, they confessed their sins and prostrated themselves before the Lord, their God.
1 Corinthians 10:31
In short, whether you eat, whether you drink, or whatever you do, do it all for the glory of God.
Psalms 119:31
I embraced your prescriptions: do not disappoint me, Lord.
Jonah 3:5-9
The Ninevites believed in God, decreed a fast and dressed in penance clothes, from the greatest to the smallest. When the news reached the king of Nineveh, he rose from his throne, took off his royal robes, put on clothes of penance, and sat on ashes. In addition, he ordered the following announcement to be proclaimed in Nineveh: “By decree of the king and his officials, no man or animal, neither large nor small cattle, must taste a morsel: they do not graze or drink water; dress up in…