The word in Scripture

Fasting in the Bible

The word fasting appears 17 times in the King James Version of the Bible. Fasting is humbling the body to seek God with the whole heart. And like every true word of Scripture, it finds its fullness in Jesus Christ.

What fasting means in the Bible

Fasting is humbling the body to seek God with the whole heart.

Where the word fasting appears

Here are 8 of the passages where the word fasting appears, chosen from across the Scriptures, in the words of the King James Bible:

“When I wept, and chastened my soul with fasting, that was to my reproach.”Psalms 69:10

“My knees are weak through fasting; and my flesh faileth of fatness.”Psalms 109:24

“Then Jesus called his disciples unto him, and said, I have compassion on the multitude, because they continue with me now three days, and have nothing to eat: and I will not send them away fasting, lest they faint in the way.”Matthew 15:32

“Howbeit this kind goeth not out but by prayer and fasting.”Matthew 17:21

“And if I send them away fasting to their own houses, they will faint by the way: for divers of them came from far.”Mark 8:3

“And he said unto them, This kind can come forth by nothing, but by prayer and fasting.”Mark 9:29

“And Cornelius said, Four days ago I was fasting until this hour; and at the ninth hour I prayed in my house, and, behold, a man stood before me in bright clothing,”Acts 10:30

“And while the day was coming on, Paul besought them all to take meat, saying, This day is the fourteenth day that ye have tarried and continued fasting, having taken nothing.”Acts 27:33