3 After they fasted and prayed, they laid their hands on them and sent them away.
3 After they fasted and prayed, they laid their hands on them and sent them away.
4 After I heard these words I sat down on the ground and cried for days. I ate no food and offered prayer to the God of heaven.
29 He replied: Only prayer will make this sort come out.
16 David pleaded with God for the child. He fasted and lay on the ground all night.
3 I ate no pleasant bread; neither flesh nor wine entered my mouth. I did not anoint myself at all until three whole weeks were completed.
3 I ate no pleasant bread; neither flesh nor wine entered my mouth. I did not anoint myself at all until three whole weeks were completed.
28 When the child went into the house his disciples asked him privately: »Why were we unable to send it out?«
29 He replied: Only prayer will make this sort come out.
2 As they ministered to God, and fasted, the Holy Spirit said: »Set Barnabas and Saul apart for the work I have called them.«
2 As they ministered to God, and fasted, the Holy Spirit said: »Set Barnabas and Saul apart for the work I have called them.«
2 As they ministered to God, and fasted, the Holy Spirit said: »Set Barnabas and Saul apart for the work I have called them.«
3 After they fasted and prayed, they laid their hands on them and sent them away.
12 »Even now,« said Jehovah, »turn to me with all your heart, and with fasting, and with weeping, and with mourning!
12 »Even now,« said Jehovah, »turn to me with all your heart, and with fasting, and with weeping, and with mourning!
1 Gods Spirit led Jesus into the desert wilderness. There he was tested tempted by the Devil.
2 He fasted forty days and nights, and was very hungry.
23 So we went without food, requesting our God for this: and his ear was open to our prayer.
23 So we went without food, requesting our God for this: and his ear was open to our prayer.
17 »Anoint your head and wash your face.
18 »That way, men may not see that you are fasting. Your Father knows in secret and will reward you.
37 She had been a widow eighty-four years. She never left the temple. She worshipped and fasted with supplications day and night.
2 He spent forty days in the wilderness being tempted by the devil. He did not eat anything during those days so when it was over he was hungry.
14 »Sanctify a fast! Call a solemn assembly. Gather the elders and all the inhabitants of the land to the House of Jehovah your God. Call out to Jehovah.
20 He told them: »It was because of your lack of faith: Truly I say to you, if you have faith as small as a grain of mustard seed, you will say to this mountain, move and it will move. Nothing will be impossible to you.«
21 omitted, text not found in early manuscripts
23 When they had ordained elders in every congregation they prayed with fasting. They commended them to God, on whom they believed.
16 »When you abstain from food, do not be like the hypocrites, with sad faces to be seen by men. They have received their reward.
17 »Anoint your head and wash your face.
18 »That way, men may not see that you are fasting. Your Father knows in secret and will reward you.
13 But when they were sick, I wore sackcloth. I humbled myself with fasting. My prayer returned unanswered.
5 The people of Nineveh believed God and they proclaimed a fast, and put on sackcloth, from the greatest of them even to the least of them.
6 The news reached the king of Nineveh. He left his throne, and took off his robe and covered himself with sackcloth. Then he sat in ashes.
7 He made proclamation and published it in Nineveh by the decree of the king and his nobles, saying: »Let neither man nor beast, herd nor flock, taste anything; let them not eat, nor drink water.
8 »Let them be covered with sackcloth, both man and beast. Let them sincerely call on God! Let them turn away each one from his evil way, and from the violence that is in his hands.
9 »Who knows whether God will turn back and change his mind, and turn away from his fierce anger that we will not perish?«
10 God saw their works! That they turned from their evil way. God turned back from the deed that he said he would do to them. He did not do it.
3 I looked to Jehovah God to seek by prayer and supplications, with fasting and sackcloth and ashes.
33 They said: »The disciples of John fast often and make supplications. So do the disciples of the Pharisees. But yours eat and drink.«
34 Jesus replied: »Could you make the sons of the bride-chamber fast while the bridegroom is with them?
35 »The days will come and when the bridegroom will be taken away from them. Then they will fast.«
6 »Is this not the fast I choose to loosen the bonds of wickedness, to undo the bands of the yoke, and to let the oppressed go free and break every yoke?
21 Then I gave orders for a time of going without food, there by the Ahava River, so that we might make ourselves low before our God in prayer, requesting from him a safe journey for us and for our little ones and for all our substance.
16 »Go assemble all the Jews who are present in Shushan, and fast for me. Take no food or drink night or day for three days. My women and I will do the same. Then I will go in to the king even though it is against the law. If death is to be my fate, then let it come.«
28 Moses was there with Jehovah forty days and forty nights. He did not eat bread or drink water. He wrote on the tablets the words of the covenant, the Ten Commandments Ten Words.
27 In weariness and painfulness, in watching often, in hunger and thirst, in fasting often, in cold and nakedness.
3 »Why have we fasted and you do not see? Why have we humbled ourselves and you do not notice? Behold, on the day of your fast you find desire, and mistreat all your workers.
4 »You fast for contention and strife and to strike with a wicked fist. You do not fast today to make your voice heard on high.
5 »Is it a fast like this which I choose, a day for a man to humble himself? Is it for bowing one's head like a reed rush and for spreading out sackcloth and ashes as a bed? Will you call this a fast, even an acceptable day to Jehovah?
6 »Is this not the fast I choose to loosen the bonds of wickedness, to undo the bands of the yoke, and to let the oppressed go free and break every yoke?
16 »When you abstain from food, do not be like the hypocrites, with sad faces to be seen by men. They have received their reward.