Bible verses about "fasting" | Sawyer

² being tempted by the devil forty days. And he eat nothing in those days; and when they were completed he was hungry.

⁴ And he answered and said; It is written, man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word which proceeds from the mouth of God.

¹² I fast twice a week; I tithe all I acquire.

⁵ Withhold not yourselves from one another, except by agreement for a time that you may be at leisure for prayer, and come together again, that Satan may not tempt you by your incontinence.

² And while they served the Lord and fasted, the Holy Spirit said, Separate me Barnabas and Saul for the work to which I have called them.

¹⁸ that you may not appear to men to fast, but to your Father in secret; and your Father who sees in secret shall reward you.

²³ And having appointed them elders in every church, and having prayed with fasting, they commended them to the Lord in whom they had believed.

^{16 (5:8)} And when you fast, be not like the hypocrites, of a sad countenance; for they disfigure their faces that they may appear to men to fast. I tell you truly, they have their reward. ¹⁷ But when you fast, anoint your head, and wash your face, ¹⁸ that you may not appear to men to fast, but to your Father in secret; and your Father who sees in secret shall reward you.