Popular Bible Verses about Fasting - Page 3

Found 39 Verses (from 21)

Matthew 4:2

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

And He went without food for forty days and forty nights, and later He was hungry. [Exod. 34:28; I Kings 19:8.] AMP

And when he had fasted forty days and forty nights, he was afterward an hungred. KJV

Leviticus 16:29

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"This is to be a lasting ordinance for you: On the tenth day of the seventh month you must deny yourselves and not do any work – whether native-born or a foreigner residing among you – " NIV

It shall be a statute to you forever that in the seventh month [nearly October] on the tenth day of the month you shall afflict yourselves [by fasting with penitence and humiliation] and do no work at all, either the native-born or the stranger who dwells temporarily among you. AMP

And this shall be a statute for ever unto you: that in the seventh month, on the tenth day of the month, ye shall afflict your souls, and do no work at all, whether it be one of your own country, or a stranger that sojourneth among you: KJV

Luke 2:37

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And then had been a widow for eighty-four years. She never left the temple but worshiped night and day, fasting and praying. NIV

And as a widow even for eighty-four years. She did not go out from the temple enclosure, but was worshiping night and day with fasting and prayer. AMP

And she was a widow of about fourscore and four years, which departed not from the temple, but served God with fastings and prayers night and day. KJV

Matthew 17:21

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But this kind does not go out except by prayer and fasting. AMP

Howbeit this kind goeth not out but by prayer and fasting. KJV

Acts 13:3

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

Then after fasting and praying, they put their hands on them and sent them away. AMP

And when they had fasted and prayed, and laid their hands on them, they sent them away. KJV

Leviticus 23:27

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"The tenth day of this seventh month is the Day of Atonement. Hold a sacred assembly and deny yourselves, and present a food offering to the LORD." NIV

Also the tenth day of this seventh month is the Day of Atonement; it shall be a holy [called] assembly, and you shall afflict yourselves [by fasting in penitence and humility] and present an offering made by fire to the Lord. AMP

Also on the tenth day of this seventh month there shall be a day of atonement: it shall be an holy convocation unto you; and ye shall afflict your souls, and offer an offering made by fire unto the LORD. KJV

Matthew 15:32

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Jesus called his disciples to him and said, "I have compassion for these people; they have already been with me three days and have nothing to eat. I do not want to send them away hungry, or they may collapse on the way." NIV

Then Jesus called His disciples to Him and said, I have pity and sympathy and am deeply moved for the crowd, because they have been with Me now three days and they have nothing [at all left] to eat; and I am not willing to send them away hungry, lest they faint or become exhausted on the way. AMP

Then Jesus called his disciples unto him, and said, I have compassion on the multitude, because they continue with me now three days, and have nothing to eat: and I will not send them away fasting, lest they faint in the way. KJV

Daniel 9:3

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

And I set my face to the Lord God to seek Him by prayer and supplications, with fasting and sackcloth and ashes AMP

And I set my face unto the Lord God, to seek by prayer and supplications, with fasting, and sackcloth, and ashes: KJV

1 Corinthians 7:5

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Do not deprive each other except perhaps by mutual consent and for a time, so that you may devote yourselves to prayer. Then come together again so that Satan will not tempt you because of your lack of self-control. NIV

Do not refuse and deprive and defraud each other [of your due marital rights], except perhaps by mutual consent for a time, so that you may devote yourselves unhindered to prayer. But afterwards resume marital relations, lest Satan tempt you [to sin] through your lack of restraint of sexual desire. [Exod. 19:15.] AMP

Defraud ye not one the other, except it be with consent for a time, that ye may give yourselves to fasting and prayer; and come together again, that Satan tempt you not for your incontinency. KJV

Isaiah 58:3

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"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." NIV

Why have we fasted, they say, and You do not see it? Why have we afflicted ourselves, and You take no knowledge [of it]? Behold [O Israel], on the day of your fast [when you should be grieving for your sins], you find profit in your business, and [instead of stopping all work, as the law implies you and your workmen should do] you extort from your hired servants a full amount of labor. [Lev. 16:29.] AMP

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. KJV