1 Then  * Jesus was led up by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil.  *2 After he had fasted forty days and forty nights,  * he was hungry.

20 "Because of your little faith," he  * told them. "For truly I tell you, if you have faith the size of*a mustard seed, you will tell this mountain, ‘Move from here to there,’ and it will move.*Nothing will be impossible for you."*,*

16 "Whenever you fast, don’t be gloomy like the hypocrites. For they disfigure their faces*so that their fasting is obvious to people. Truly I tell you, they have their reward.17 But when you fast, put oil on your head and wash your face,*18 so that your fasting isn’t obvious to others but to your Father who is in secret. And your Father who sees in secret will reward you.*

16 "Whenever you fast, don’t be gloomy like the hypocrites. For they disfigure their faces*so that their fasting is obvious to people. Truly I tell you, they have their reward.

17 But when you fast, put oil on your head and wash your face,*18 so that your fasting isn’t obvious to others but to your Father who is in secret. And your Father who sees in secret will reward you.*

2 for forty days  * to be tempted by the devil. He ate nothing during those days, and when they were over, he was hungry.

28 Moses was there with the Lord forty days and forty nights; he did not eat food or drink water. He wrote the Ten Commandments,  * the words of the covenant, on the tablets.

3 So I turned my attention to the Lord God to seek him by prayer and petitions, with fasting, sackcloth, and ashes.  *

3 I didn’t eat any rich food,  * no meat or wine entered my mouth, and I didn’t put any oil on my body until the three weeks were over.

3 I didn’t eat any rich food,  * no meat or wine entered my mouth, and I didn’t put any oil on my body until the three weeks were over.

16 "Go and assemble all the Jews who can be found in Susa and fast for me. Don’t eat or drink for three days,  * night or day. I and my female servants will also fast  * in the same way. After that, I will go to the king even if it is against the law.  * If I perish, I perish."  *

4 When I heard these words, I sat down and wept. I mourned for a number of days, fasting and praying  * before the God of the heavens.  *

21 I proclaimed a fast  * by the Ahava River,  * so that we might humble ourselves before our God and ask him for a safe journey for us, our dependents, and all our possessions.

23 So we fasted and pleaded with our God about this, and he was receptive to our prayer.

23 So we fasted and pleaded with our God about this, and he was receptive to our prayer.

16 David pleaded with God for the boy. He fasted, went home, and spent the night lying on the ground.  *

5 Then the people of Nineveh believed God. They proclaimed a fast  * and dressed in sackcloth — from the greatest of them to the least.

6 When word reached the king of Nineveh, he got up from his throne, took off his royal robe, covered himself with sackcloth,  * and sat in ashes. 7 Then he issued a decree  * in Nineveh:

By order of the king and his nobles: No person or animal, herd or flock, is to taste anything at all. They must not eat or drink water. 8 Furthermore, both people and animals must be covered with sackcloth, and everyone must call out earnestly to God.  * Each must turn from his evil ways  * and from his wrongdoing.  *9 Who knows?  * God may turn and relent; he may turn from his burning anger so that we will not perish.  *

10 God saw their actions — that they had turned from their evil ways  *  — so God relented from the disaster  * he had threatened them with. And he did not do it.

3 "Why have we fasted, but you have not seen?  *

We have denied ourselves, but you haven’t noticed! "  *

"Look, you do as you please on the day of your fast,

and oppress all your workers.  *

4 You fast with contention and strife

to strike viciously with your fist.

You cannot fast as you do today,

hoping to make your voice heard on high.

5 Will the fast I choose be like this:

A day for a person to deny himself,

to bow his head like a reed,

and to spread out sackcloth and ashes?  *

Will you call this a fast

and a day acceptable to the  Lord?

6 Isn’t this the fast I choose:

To break the chains of wickedness,  *

to untie the ropes of the yoke,

to set the oppressed free,

and to tear off every yoke?  *

6 Isn’t this the fast I choose:

To break the chains of wickedness,  *

to untie the ropes of the yoke,

to set the oppressed free,

and to tear off every yoke?  *

12 Even now —

this is the  Lord’s declaration —

turn to me with all your heart,  *

with fasting, weeping, and mourning.  *

12 Even now —

this is the  Lord’s declaration —

turn to me with all your heart,  *

with fasting, weeping, and mourning.  *

14 Announce a sacred fast;  *

proclaim a solemn assembly!

Gather the elders  *

and all the residents of the land

at the house of the  Lord your God,  *

and cry out to the  Lord.  *

2 As 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 As 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 As 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."  *3 Then after they had fasted, prayed, and laid hands on them, they sent them off.  *

3 Then after they had fasted, prayed, and laid hands on them, they sent them off.  *

3 Then after they had fasted, prayed, and laid hands on them, they sent them off.  *

23 When they had appointed elders  * for them in every church and prayed with fasting, they committed them to the Lord in whom they had believed.

37 and was a widow for eighty-four years.  * She did not leave the temple, serving God night and day with fasting and prayers.  *

33 Then they said to him, "John’s disciples fast often and say prayers, and those of the Pharisees do the same, but yours eat and drink."

34 Jesus said to them, "You can’t make the wedding guests fast while the groom is with them, can you?35 But the time*will come*when the groom will be taken away from them — then they will fast in those days."

28 After he had gone into the house, his disciples asked him privately, "Why couldn’t we drive it out? "

29 And he told them, "This kind can come out by nothing but prayer."*,*

29 And he told them, "This kind can come out by nothing but prayer."*,*

27 toil and hardship, many sleepless nights, hunger and thirst, often without food, cold, and without clothing.  *

13 Yet when they were sick,

my clothing was sackcloth;

I humbled myself with fasting,

and my prayer was genuine.  *,*