Fasting is an act of worship and devotion, where the focus is shifted from worldly things to God. We’ve gathered 145 fasting Scriptures to highlight its impact on spiritual growth, renewal, and a closer relationship with God. Whether it’s through personal sacrifices or collective efforts to seek the Lord’s guidance, these verses offer profound insights for those looking to deepen their spiritual path. Together, let’s delve into these holy writings and uncover the lasting value of fasting in our faith journey.
Fasting as Spiritual Purification and Repentance
- Joel 2:12 – “Even now,” declares the Lord, “return to me with all your heart, with fasting and weeping and mourning.”
- Jonah 3:5-10 – “When God saw what they did and how they turned from their evil ways, he relented and did not bring on them the destruction he had threatened.”
- Matthew 9:15 – “Jesus answered, ‘How can the guests of the bridegroom mourn while he is with them? The time will come when the bridegroom will be taken from them; then they will fast.'”
- Proverbs 21:25-26 – “The craving of a sluggard will be the death of him, because his hands refuse to work. All day long he craves for more, but the righteous give without sparing.”
- Isaiah 40:31 – “But those who hope in the Lord will renew their strength. They will soar on wings like eagles; they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not be faint.”
- Leviticus 2:14 – “‘If you bring a grain offering of firstfruits to the Lord, offer crushed heads of new grain roasted in the fire.”
- Leviticus 23:10 – “Speak to the Israelites and say to them: ‘When you enter the land I am going to give you and you reap its harvest, bring to the priest a sheaf of the firstfruits of your harvest.”
- Numbers 18:12 – “All the best of the oil, all the best of the new wine and grain, the firstfruits of what they give to the Lord, I give to you.”
- James 4:8-10 – Come near to God and he will come near to you. Wash your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded. Grieve, mourn and wail. Change your laughter to mourning and your joy to gloom.
Seeking God’s Guidance and Help During Fasting
- Ezra 8:21 – I proclaimed a fast, so that we might humble ourselves before our God and ask him for a safe journey for us and our children, with all our possessions.
- Psalm 51:19 – “Then you will delight in the sacrifices of the righteous, in burnt offerings offered whole; then bulls will be offered on your altar.”
- Esther 4:16 – “Go, gather together all the Jews who are in Susa, and fast for me. Do not eat or drink for three days, night or day. I and my maids will fast as you do. When this is done, I will go to the king, even though it is against the law. And if I perish, I perish.”
- Hosea 6:6 – “For I desire mercy, not sacrifice, and acknowledgment of God rather than burnt offerings.”
- Acts 27:33-34 – Just before dawn Paul urged them all to eat. “For the last fourteen days,” he said, “you have been in constant suspense and have gone without food—you haven’t eaten anything. Now I urge you to take some food. You need it to survive.”
- Leviticus 2:1 – “When anyone brings a grain offering to the Lord, their offering is to be of the finest flour. They are to pour olive oil on it, put frankincense on it.”
- Acts 10:30 – Cornelius answered: “Four days ago I was in my house praying at this hour, at three in the afternoon. Suddenly a man in shining clothes stood before me.”
Fasting for Intimacy with God
- Matthew 6:17-18 – “But when you fast, anoint your head and wash your face, so that it will not be obvious to others that you are fasting, but only to your Father, who is unseen; and your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you.”
- Luke 4:1-2 – “Jesus, full of the Holy Spirit, left the Jordan and was led by the Spirit into the wilderness, where for forty days he was tempted by the devil. He ate nothing during those days, and at the end of them he was hungry.”
- Acts 13:2 – “While 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.’”
- Psalm 35:13 – “Yet when they were ill, I put on sackcloth and humbled myself with fasting. When my prayers returned to me unanswered,”
- Isaiah 58:6-8 – “Is not this the kind of fasting I have chosen: to loose the chains of injustice and untie the cords of the yoke, to set the oppressed free and break every yoke? Is it not to share your food with the hungry and to provide the poor wanderer with shelter—when you see the naked, to clothe them, and not to turn away from your own flesh and blood?”
- Leviticus 7:12 – “If he offers it as an expression of thankfulness, then along with this thank offering he is to offer cakes of bread made without yeast and mixed with oil, wafers made without yeast and spread with oil, and cakes of fine flour well-kneaded and mixed with oil.”
- Matthew 4:2 – “After fasting forty days and forty nights, he was hungry.”
- Psalm 109:24 – “My knees give way from fasting; my body is thin and gaunt.”
- Daniel 10:12 – “Then he continued, ‘Do not be afraid, Daniel. Since the first day that you set your mind to gain understanding and to humble yourself before your God, your words were heard, and I have come in response to them.'”
- 1 Kings 3:4 – “The king went to Gibeon to offer sacrifices, for that was the most important high place, and Solomon offered a thousand burnt offerings on that altar.”
Fasting as an Act of Worship
- Luke 18:12 – “I fast twice a week and give a tenth of all I get.”
- Acts 14:23 – “Paul and Barnabas appointed elders for them in each church and, with prayer and fasting, committed them to the Lord, in whom they had put their trust.”
- Nehemiah 9:1-2 – “On the twenty-fourth day of the same month, the Israelites gathered together, fasting and wearing sackcloth and having dust on their heads.”
- 1 Kings 21:27 – “When Ahab heard these words, he tore his clothes, put on sackcloth and fasted. He lay in sackcloth and went around meekly.”
- Joel 2:15 – “Blow the trumpet in Zion, declare a holy fast, call a sacred assembly.”
- Psalm 69:10 – “When I weep and fast, I must endure scorn.”
- Acts 27:9 – “Much time had been lost, and sailing had already become dangerous because by now it was after the Day of Atonement. So Paul warned them,”
- Ezra 3:4 – “Then in accordance with what is written, they celebrated the Festival of Tabernacles with the required number of burnt offerings prescribed for each day.”
- Daniel 6:18 – “Then the king returned to his palace and spent the night without eating and without any entertainment being brought to him. And he could not sleep.”
- 2 Samuel 12:16 – “David pleaded with God for the child. He fasted and spent the nights lying in sackcloth on the ground.”
Fasting for Personal Repentance
- 2 Samuel 12:22 – “He answered, ‘While the child was still alive, I fasted and wept. I thought, ‘Who knows? The Lord may be gracious to me and let the child live.’”
- 1 Kings 21:29 – “Have you noticed how Ahab has humbled himself before me? Because he has humbled himself, I will not bring this disaster in his day, but I will bring it on his house in the days of his son.”
- Joel 2:12-13 – “‘Even now,’ declares the Lord, ‘return to me with all your heart, with fasting and weeping and mourning. Rend your heart and not your garments. Return to the Lord your God, for he is gracious and compassionate, slow to anger and abounding in love, and he relents from sending calamity.'”
- Psalm 51:17 – “My sacrifice, O God, is a broken spirit; a broken and contrite heart you, God, will not despise.”
- Jonah 3:5-8 – “The Ninevites believed God. A fast was proclaimed, and all of them, from the greatest to the least, put on sackcloth. When Jonah’s warning reached the king of Nineveh, he rose from his throne, took off his royal robes, covered himself with sackcloth and sat down in the dust.”
- Ezra 10:1-11 – “While Ezra was praying and confessing, weeping and throwing himself down before the house of God, a large crowd of Israelites—men, women and children—gathered around him. They too wept bitterly.”
- Proverbs 21:3 – “To do what is right and just is more acceptable to the Lord than sacrifice.”
- Isaiah 22:12 – “The Lord, the Lord Almighty, called you on that day to weep and to wail, to tear out your hair and put on sackcloth.”
- Leviticus 2:16 – “The priest shall burn the memorial portion of the crushed grain and the oil, together with all the incense, as an offering made by fire to the Lord.”
Fasting for Healing and Deliverance
- 2 Chronicles 20:3-4 – “Alarmed, Jehoshaphat resolved to inquire of the Lord, and he proclaimed a fast for all Judah. The people of Judah came together to seek help from the Lord; indeed, they came from every town in Judah to seek him.”
- Leviticus 4:10 – “as it was taken from the bull of the fellowship offering, and the priest shall burn them on the altar of burnt offering.”
- Amos 5:22 – “Even though you bring me burnt offerings and grain offerings, I will not accept them. Though you bring choice fellowship offerings, I will have no regard for them.”
- Leviticus 4:35 – “He shall remove all the fat, just as the fat is removed from the lamb of the fellowship offering, and the priest shall burn it on the altar on top of the offerings made to the Lord by fire. In this way the priest will make atonement for them for the sin they have committed, and they will be forgiven.”
- Acts 19:12 – “So that even handkerchiefs and aprons that had touched him were taken to the sick, and their illnesses were cured and the evil spirits left them.”
- James 5:14-16 – “Is anyone among you sick? Let them call the elders of the church to pray over them and anoint them with oil in the name of the Lord. And the prayer offered in faith will make the sick person well; the Lord will raise them up. If they have sinned, they will be forgiven. Therefore confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous person is powerful and effective.”
- Leviticus 5:12 – “He is to bring it to the priest, who shall take a handful of it as a memorial portion and burn it on the altar on top of the offerings made to the Lord by fire. It is a sin offering.”
- Daniel 10:3 – “I ate no choice food; no meat or wine touched my lips; and I used no lotions at all until the three weeks were over.”
- 1 Corinthians 7:5 – “Do not deprive each other except perhaps by mutual consent and for a time, so that you may devote yourselves to prayer; then come together again so that Satan will not tempt you because of your lack of self-control.”
Fasting for Decision Making
- Acts 13:2-3 – “While 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.’ Then after fasting and praying, they laid their hands on them and sent them off.”
- Exodus 34:28 – “Moses was there with the Lord forty days and forty nights without eating bread or drinking water. And he wrote on the tablets the words of the covenant—the Ten Commandments.”
- Deuteronomy 9:9 – “When I went up on the mountain to receive the tablets of stone, the tablets of the covenant that the Lord had made with you, I stayed on the mountain forty days and forty nights; I ate no bread and drank no water.”
- Ezra 8:23 – “So we fasted and petitioned our God about this, and he answered our prayer.”
- Luke 4:14 – “Jesus returned to Galilee in the power of the Spirit, and news about him spread through the whole countryside.”
- Daniel 2:18 – “He urged them to plead for mercy from the God of heaven concerning this mystery, so that he and his friends might not be executed with the rest of the wise men of Babylon.”
- Proverbs 15:8 – “The Lord detests the sacrifice of the wicked, but the prayer of the upright pleases him.”
- Judges 20:26 – “Then all the Israelites, the whole army, went up to Bethel, and there they sat weeping before the Lord. They fasted that day until evening and presented burnt offerings and fellowship offerings to the Lord.”
Fasting for National Deliverance
- 2 Chronicles 7:14 – “If my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and I will forgive their sin and will heal their land.”
- Psalm 40:6 – “Sacrifice and offering you did not desire— but my ears you have opened — burnt offerings and sin offerings you did not require.”
- Nehemiah 9:1 – “On the twenty-fourth day of the same month, the Israelites gathered together, fasting and wearing sackcloth and putting dust on their heads.”
- Esther 4:3 – “In every province to which the edict and order of the king came, there was great mourning among the Jews, with fasting, weeping, and wailing. Many lay in sackcloth and ashes.”
- Jeremiah 14:12 – “Although they fast, I will not listen to their cry; though they offer burnt offerings and grain offerings, I will not accept them. Instead, I will destroy them with the sword, famine, and plague.”
- Leviticus 19:5 – “‘When you sacrifice a fellowship offering to the Lord, sacrifice it in such a way that it will be accepted on your behalf.”
- 1 Samuel 7:6 – “When they had assembled at Mizpah, they drew water and poured it out before the Lord. On that day they fasted and there they confessed, ‘We have sinned against the Lord.'”
- Joel 1:14 – “Declare a holy fast; call a sacred assembly. Summon the elders and all who live in the land to the house of your God, and cry out to the Lord.”
- Jeremiah 36:6-9 – “You go to the house of the Lord on a day of fasting and read to the people from the scroll the words of the Lord that you wrote as I dictated. Read them to all the people of Judah who come in from their towns.”
Fasting for Mourning and Lamentation
- 2 Samuel 1:12 – “They mourned and wept and fasted till evening for Saul and his son Jonathan, and for the army of the Lord and the nation of Israel, because they had fallen by the sword.”
- 1 Chronicles 10:12 – “All the valiant men arose and took the body of Saul and the bodies of his sons; they brought them to Jabesh and buried their bones under the oak in Jabesh, and they fasted seven days.”
- Nehemiah 1:4 – “When I heard about the wall of Jerusalem being broken down and its gates being burned with fire, I sat down and wept. For some days, I mourned and fasted and prayed before the God of heaven.”
- Leviticus 9:4 – “Also a bull and a ram for a fellowship offering to sacrifice before the Lord, together with a grain offering mixed with oil. For today the Lord will appear to you.'”
- 1 Kings 19:8 – “So he got up and ate and drank. Strengthened by that food, he traveled forty days and forty nights until he reached Horeb, the mountain of God.”
- Ezra 10:6 – “Then Ezra withdrew from before the house of God and went to the room of Jehohanan son of Eliashib. While he was there, he ate no food and drank no water, because he continued to mourn over the unfaithfulness of the exiles.”
- 1 Samuel 31:13 – “Then they took their bones and buried them under a tamarisk tree at Jabesh, and they fasted seven days.”
- Zechariah 7:5 – “Ask all the people of the land and the priests, ‘When you fasted and mourned in the fifth and seventh months for the past seventy years, was it really for me that you fasted?'”
- Leviticus 22:21 – “When anyone brings from the herd or flock a fellowship offering to the Lord to fulfill a special vow or as a freewill offering, it must be without defect or blemish to be acceptable.”
Fasting for Spiritual Warfare
- Matthew 17:21 – “However, this kind does not go out except by prayer and fasting.”
- Mark 9:29 – “He replied, ‘This kind can come out only by prayer and fasting.'”
- Ephesians 6:12 – “For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms.”
- Daniel 10:3 – “I ate no choice food; no meat or wine touched my lips, and I used no lotions at all until the three weeks were over.”
- 2 Corinthians 10:3-5 – “For though we live in the world, we do not wage war as the world does. The weapons we fight with are not the weapons of the world. On the contrary, they have divine power to demolish strongholds.”
- Deuteronomy 33:19 – “They will summon peoples to the mountain and there offer the sacrifices of righteousness; they will feast on the abundance of the seas, on the treasures hidden in the sand.”
- Ezra 8:23 – “So we fasted and petitioned our God about this, and he answered our prayer.”
- 1 Peter 5:8-9 – “Be alert and of sober mind. Your enemy the devil prowls around like a roaring lion looking for someone to devour. Resist him, standing firm in the faith, because you know that the family of believers throughout the world is undergoing the same kind of sufferings.”
Fasting for Repentance and Renewal
- Joel 2:15-16 – “Blow the trumpet in Zion, declare a holy fast, call a sacred assembly. Gather the people, consecrate the assembly; bring together the elders, gather the children, those nursing at the breast. Let the bridegroom leave his room and the bride her chamber.”
- Isaiah 58:5 – “Is it a fast that I have chosen, a day for a man to afflict his soul? Is it to bow down his head like a bulrush, and to spread out sackcloth and ashes? Would you call this a fast, and an acceptable day to the Lord?”
- Zechariah 12:12-14 – “The land will mourn, each clan by itself, with their wives by themselves: the clan of the house of David and their wives, the clan of the house of Nathan and their wives, the clan of the house of Levi and their wives, the clan of Shimei and their wives, and all the rest of the clans and their wives.”
- Malachi 3:7 – “Ever since the time of your ancestors you have turned away from my decrees and have not kept them. Return to me, and I will return to you,” says the Lord Almighty. “But you ask, ‘How are we to return?’”
- 1 Chronicles 21:24 – “But King David replied to Araunah, ‘No, I insist on paying the full price. I will not take for the Lord what is yours, or sacrifice a burnt offering that costs me nothing.'”
- 1 Kings 21:27-29 – “When Ahab heard these words, he tore his clothes, put on sackcloth and fasted. He lay in sackcloth and went around meekly. Then the word of the Lord came to Elijah the Tishbite: ‘Have you noticed how Ahab has humbled himself before me? Because he has humbled himself, I will not bring this disaster in his lifetime; I will bring it on his house in the days of his son.’”
- Nehemiah 9:1-2 – “On the twenty-fourth day of the same month, the Israelites gathered together, fasting and wearing sackcloth and putting dust on their heads. Those of Israelite descent had separated themselves from all foreigners. They stood in their places and confessed their sins and the wickedness of their fathers.”
- Daniel 9:3-5 – “So I turned to the Lord God and pleaded with him in prayer and petition, in fasting, and in sackcloth and ashes. I prayed to the Lord my God and confessed: ‘Lord, the great and awesome God, who keeps his covenant of love with those who love him and keep his commandments, we have sinned and done wrong.’”
- Matthew 6:18 – “So that it will not be obvious to others that you are fasting, but only to your Father, who is unseen; and your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you.”
- Malachi 1:11 – “My name will be great among the nations, from where the sun rises to where it sets. In every place incense and pure offerings will be brought to me, because my name will be great among the nations,” says the Lord Almighty.”
Fasting for Spiritual Insight and Understanding
- Daniel 10:2-3 – “At that time I, Daniel, mourned for three weeks. I ate no choice food; no meat or wine touched my lips; and I used no lotions at all until the three weeks were over.”
- Ezra 8:21-23 – “There, by the Ahava Canal, I proclaimed a fast, so that we might humble ourselves before our God and ask him for a safe journey for us and our children, with all our possessions.”
- Acts 10:30-31 – “Cornelius answered: ‘Four days ago I was in my house praying at this hour, at three in the afternoon. Suddenly a man in shining clothes stood before me and said, ‘Cornelius, God has heard your prayer and remembered your gifts to the poor.’”
- Psalm 119:147 – “I rise before dawn and cry for help; I have put my hope in your word.”
- Proverbs 8:17 – “I love those who love me, and those who seek me find me.”
- Isaiah 58:6-11 – “Is not this the kind of fasting I have chosen: to loose the chains of injustice and untie the cords of the yoke, to set the oppressed free and break every yoke? Is it not to share your food with the hungry and to provide the poor wanderer with shelter—when you see the naked, to clothe them, and not to turn away from your own flesh and blood? Then your light will break forth like the dawn, and your healing will quickly appear; then your righteousness will go before you, and the glory of the Lord will be your rear guard.”
- Luke 2:37 – “And then was a widow until she was eighty-four. She never left the temple but worshiped night and day, fasting and praying.”
- Acts 13:2 – “While 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.’”
- Colossians 4:2 – “Devote yourselves to prayer, being watchful and thankful.”
Fasting as a Sign of Humility
- Ezra 8:21 – “There, by the Ahava Canal, I proclaimed a fast, so that we might humble ourselves before our God and ask him for a safe journey for us and our children, with all our possessions.”
- Numbers 6:17 – “He is to present the ram as a sacrifice of fellowship offering to the Lord, together with the basket of unleavened bread. The priest shall also offer its grain offering and its drink offering.”
- Leviticus 16:29-31 – “This is to be a lasting ordinance for you: On the tenth day of the seventh month you must deny yourselves and not do any work—whether native-born or a foreigner residing among you—because on this day atonement will be made for you, to cleanse you. Then, before the Lord, you will be clean from all your sins.”
- 2 Corinthians 6:5 – “in beatings, imprisonments and riots; in hard work, sleepless nights and hunger;”
- 1 Samuel 2:17 – “This sin of the young men was very great in the Lord’s sight, for they were treating the Lord’s offering with contempt.”
- Romans 12:1 – “Therefore, I urge you, brothers and sisters, in view of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God—this is your true and proper worship.”
- Acts 20:22-24 – “And now, compelled by the Spirit, I am going to Jerusalem, not knowing what will happen to me there. I only know that in every city the Holy Spirit warns me that prison and hardships are facing me. However, I consider my life worth nothing to me; my only aim is to finish the race and complete the task the Lord Jesus has given me—the task of testifying to the good news of God’s grace.”
- James 4:6-10 – “But he gives us more grace. That is why Scripture says: ‘God opposes the proud but shows favor to the humble.’ Submit yourselves, then, to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. Come near to God and he will come near to you. Wash your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded. Grieve, mourn and wail. Change your laughter to mourning and your joy to gloom. Humble yourselves before the Lord, and he will lift you up.”
- 1 Peter 5:6-7 – “Humble yourselves, therefore, under God’s mighty hand, that he may lift you up in due time. Cast all your anxiety on him because he cares for you.”
Fasting to Enhance Prayer
- Numbers 15:8 – “When you prepare a young bull as a burnt offering or sacrifice, for a special vow or a fellowship offering to the Lord,”
- Acts 1:14 – “They all joined together constantly in prayer, along with the women and Mary the mother of Jesus, and with his brothers.”
- Colossians 4:2 – “Devote yourselves to prayer, being watchful and thankful.”
- Ephesians 6:18 – “And pray in the Spirit on all occasions with all kinds of prayers and requests. With this in mind, be alert and always keep on praying for all the Lord’s people.”
- Philippians 4:6-7 – “Do not be anxious about anything, but in every situation, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God. And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.”
- Leviticus 7:15 – “The meat of their fellowship offering of thanksgiving must be eaten on the day it is offered; they must leave none of it till morning.”
- Daniel 9:3 – “So I turned to the Lord God and pleaded with him in prayer and petition, in fasting, and in sackcloth and ashes.”
- Numbers 15:3 – “and you present to the Lord food offerings from the herd or the flock, as an aroma pleasing to the Lord—whether burnt offerings or sacrifices, for special vows or freewill offerings or festival offerings.”
- Acts 13:3 – “So after they had fasted and prayed, they placed their hands on them and sent them off.”
- 1 Timothy 2:1-2 – “I urge, then, first of all, that petitions, prayers, intercession and thanksgiving be made for all people— for kings and all those in authority, that we may live peaceful and quiet lives in all godliness and holiness.”
Fasting for Spiritual Breakthrough
- Isaiah 58:8 – “Then your light will break forth like the dawn, and your healing will quickly appear; then your righteousness will go before you, and the glory of the Lord will be your rear guard.”
- Ezra 9:5 – “Then, at the evening sacrifice, I rose from my self-abasement, with my tunic and cloak torn, and fell on my knees with my hands spread out to the Lord my God.”
- Ezra 10:1-2 – “While Ezra was praying and confessing, weeping and throwing himself down before the house of God, a large crowd of Israelites—men, women, and children—gathered around him. They too wept bitterly.”
- Nehemiah 9:1-3 – “On the twenty-fourth day of the same month, the Israelites gathered together, fasting and wearing sackcloth and putting dust on their heads. Those of Israelite descent had separated themselves from all foreigners. They stood in their places and confessed their sins and the sins of their ancestors. They stood where they were and read from the Book of the Law of the Lord their God for a quarter of the day, and spent another quarter in confession and in worshiping the Lord their God.”
- Daniel 9:18-19 – “Give ear, O God, and hear; open your eyes and see the desolation of the city that bears your name. We do not make requests of you because we are righteous, but because of your great mercy. Lord, listen! Lord, forgive! Lord, hear and act! For your sake, my God, do not delay, because your city and your people bear your Name.”
- Acts 9:9 – “For three days he was blind, and did not eat or drink anything.”
- Isaiah 58:6 – “Is not this the kind of fasting I have chosen: to loose the chains of injustice and untie the cords of the yoke, to set the oppressed free and break every yoke?”
- Mark 2:20 – “But the time will come when the bridegroom will be taken from them, and on that day they will fast.”
- Zechariah 8:19 – “This is what the Lord Almighty says: ‘The fasts of the fourth, fifth, seventh, and tenth months will become joyful and glad occasions and happy festivals for Judah. Therefore, love truth and peace.'”
Fasting for Purification and Sanctification
- Leviticus 6:20 – “This is the offering Aaron and his sons are to bring to the Lord on the day he is anointed: a tenth of an ephah of the finest flour as a regular grain offering, half of it in the morning and half in the evening.”
- Leviticus 23:27 – “Also on the tenth day of this seventh month there shall be a Day of Atonement. It shall be a holy convocation for you; you shall afflict your souls, and offer an offering made by fire to the Lord.”
- Numbers 29:7 – “On the tenth day of this seventh month hold a sacred assembly. You must deny yourselves and do no work.”
- Micah 6:8 – “He has shown you, O mortal, what is good. And what does the Lord require of you? To act justly and to love mercy and to walk humbly with your God.”
- Psalm 51:7-10 – “Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean; wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow. Let me hear joy and gladness; let the bones you have crushed rejoice. Hide your face from my sins and blot out all my iniquity. Create in me a pure heart, O God, and renew a steadfast spirit within me.”
- Isaiah 1:16-18 – “Wash and make yourselves clean. Take your evil deeds out of my sight; stop doing wrong. Learn to do right; seek justice. Defend the oppressed. Take up the cause of the fatherless; plead the case of the widow. Come now, let us settle the matter,’ says the Lord. ‘Though your sins are like scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they are red as crimson, they shall be like wool.'”
- Jeremiah 36:6-7 – “You go to the house of the Lord on a day of fasting and read to the people from the scroll the words of the Lord that you wrote as I dictated. Read them to all the people of Judah who come in from their towns.”
- Acts 15:8-9 – “God, who knows the heart, showed that he accepted them by giving the Holy Spirit to them, just as he did to us. He did not discriminate between us and them, for he purified their hearts by faith.”
- James 4:8 – “Come near to God and he will come near to you. Wash your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded.”
- 1 Peter 1:22 – “Now that you have purified yourselves by obeying the truth so that you have sincere love for each other, love one another deeply, from the heart.”
Conclusion
In wrapping up our journey through these 145 fasting Scriptures, we’ve seen how fasting deeply connects us with our spiritual path. These verses light the way to a more devoted relationship with God, showcasing fasting’s powerful role in transformation. Let these verses inspire and strengthen your faith, drawing you closer to the essence of belief with each reading.