Fasting

Nave's Topical Bible

Topic from Nave's Topical Bible (Orville J. Nave, 1897) — public domain.

• 2 Corinthians 6:5 NT

  in beatings, in imprisonments, in riots, in labors, in watchings, in fastings;

• 2 Corinthians 11:27 NT

  in labor and travail, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, and in cold and nakedness.

• 1 Samuel 31:13 OT

  They took their bones and buried them under the tamarisk tree in Jabesh, and fasted seven days.

• 1 Chronicles 10:12 OT

  all the valiant men arose, and took away the body of Saul, and the bodies of his sons, and brought them to Jabesh, and buried their bones under the oak in Jabesh, and fasted seven days.

• 2 Samuel 3:35 OT

  All the people came to urge David to eat bread while it was yet day; but David swore, saying, “God do so to me, and more also, if I taste bread, or anything else, until the sun goes down.”

• Daniel 10:2 OT

  In those days I, Daniel, was mourning three whole weeks.

• Daniel 10:3 OT

  I ate no pleasant bread. No meat or wine came into my mouth. I didn’t anoint myself at all, until three whole weeks were fulfilled.

• Exodus 24:18 OT

  Moses entered into the middle of the cloud, and went up on the mountain; and Moses was on the mountain forty days and forty nights.

• Exodus 34:28 OT

  He was there with Yahweh forty days and forty nights; he neither ate bread, nor drank water. He wrote on the tablets the words of the covenant, the ten commandments.

• 1 Kings 19:8 OT

  He arose, and ate and drank, and went in the strength of that food forty days and forty nights to Horeb, God’s Mountain.

• Ezra 8:21-23 OT

  Then I proclaimed a fast there, at the river Ahava, that we might humble ourselves before our God, to seek from him a straight way for us, and for our little ones, and for all our possessions. For I was ashamed to ask of the king a band of…

• Psalms 69:10 OT

  When I wept and I fasted, that was to my reproach.

• Isaiah 58:3-7 OT

  ‘Why have we fasted,’ they say, ‘and you don’t see? Why have we afflicted our soul, and you don’t notice?’ “Behold, in the day of your fast you find pleasure, and oppress all your laborers. Behold, you fast for strife and contention, and…

• Jeremiah 14:12 OT

  When they fast, I will not hear their cry; and when they offer burnt offering and meal offering, I will not accept them; but I will consume them by the sword, by famine, and by pestilence.”

• Joel 1:14 OT

  Sanctify a fast. Call a solemn assembly. Gather the elders, and all the inhabitants of the land, to the house of Yahweh, your God, and cry to Yahweh.

• Joel 2:12 OT

  “Yet even now,” says Yahweh, “turn to me with all your heart, and with fasting, and with weeping, and with mourning.”

• Joel 2:13 OT

  Tear your heart, and not your garments, and turn to Yahweh, your God; for he is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness, and relents from sending calamity.

• Zechariah 7:5 OT

  “Speak to all the people of the land, and to the priests, saying, ‘When you fasted and mourned in the fifth and in the seventh month for these seventy years, did you at all fast to me, really to me?

• Zechariah 8:19 OT

  Yahweh of Armies says: “The fasts of the fourth, fifth, seventh, and tenth months shall be for the house of Judah joy and gladness, and cheerful feasts. Therefore love truth and peace.”

• Matthew 6:16-18 NT

  “Moreover when you fast, don’t be like the hypocrites, with sad faces. For they disfigure their faces, that they may be seen by men to be fasting. Most certainly I tell you, they have received their reward. But you, when you fast, anoint…

• Matthew 9:15 NT

  Jesus said to them, “Can the friends of the bridegroom mourn, as long as the bridegroom is with them? But the days will come when the bridegroom will be taken away from them, and then they will fast.

• Matthew 17:21 NT

  But this kind doesn’t go out except by prayer and fasting.”

• Acts 27:9 NT

  When much time had passed and the voyage was now dangerous, because the Fast had now already gone by, Paul admonished them

• Acts 27:33 NT

  While the day was coming on, Paul begged them all to take some food, saying, “Today is the fourteenth day that you wait and continue fasting, having taken nothing.