Bible verses about "fasting" | Diaglott

² days forty being tempted by the accuser. And not he ate nothing in the days those; and being ended of them, afterwards he was hungry.

⁴ He but answering said: It is written: Not by bread alone shall live a man; but by every word proceeding from mouth of God.

¹² I fast twice of the week, I tithe all what I acquire.

⁵ Not do you deprive each other, if not from agreement for a season, so that you may be at leisure for the prayer; and again to the same you may be, so that not may tempt you the adversary through the incontinence of you.

² Serving and of them the Lord and fasting, said the spirit the holy: Separate you indeed for me the Barnabas and the Saul for the work, which I have called them.

¹⁸ so that not thou mayest seem to the men fasting, but to the Father of thee, that in the secret; and the Father of thee, who seeing in the secret, will give to thee.

²³ Having appointed and for them elders in every congregation, having prayed with fasting they commended them to the Lord, into whom they had believed.

¹⁶ When and you fast, not be, like the hypocrites, of a sad face; they disfigure for the faces of them; so that they may seem to the men to be fasting. Indeed I say to you, that they obtain the reward of them. ¹⁷ Thou but fasting anoint of thee the head, and the face of thee wash, ¹⁸ so that not thou mayest seem to the men fasting, but to the Father of thee, that in the secret; and the Father of thee, who seeing in the secret, will give to thee.