Top 30 Bible Verses about Fasting for Forgiveness

Is this not the fast that I have chosen: to loose the bonds of wickedness, to undo the heavy burdens, to let the oppressed go free, and that you break every yoke?

Moreover, when you fast, do not be like the hypocrites, with a sad countenance. For they disfigure their faces that they may appear to men to be fasting. Assuredly, I say to you, they have their reward.

Now, therefore, says the LORD, Turn to Me with all your heart, with fasting, with weeping, and with mourning.

But you, when you fast, anoint your head and wash your face,

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 will forgive their sin and heal their land.

But as for me, when they were sick, my clothing was sackcloth; I humbled myself with fasting; and my prayer would return to my own heart.

So we fasted and entreated our God for this, and He answered our prayer.

Then, having fasted and prayed, and laid hands on them, they sent them away.

Confess your trespasses to one another, and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The effective, fervent prayer of a righteous man avails much.

Why have we fasted, they say, and You have not seen? Why have we afflicted our souls, and You take no notice? In fact, in the day of your fast you find pleasure, and exploit all your laborers.

And Jesus said to them, Can the friends of the bridegroom mourn as long as the bridegroom is with them? But the days will come when the bridegroom will be taken away from them, and then they will fast.

And the tax collector, standing afar off, would not so much as raise his eyes to heaven, but beat his breast, saying, ‘God, be merciful to me a sinner!’

So He said to them, This kind can come out by nothing but prayer and fasting.

So it was, when I heard these words, that I sat down and wept, and mourned for many days; I was fasting and praying before the God of heaven.

When I wept and chastened my soul with fasting, that became my reproach.

However, this kind does not go out except by prayer and fasting.

If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

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?

This shall be a statute forever for you: In the seventh month, on the tenth day of the month, you shall afflict your souls, and do no work at all, whether a native of your own people or a stranger who dwells among you.

So that you do not appear to men to be fasting, but to your Father who is in the secret place; and your Father who sees in secret will reward you openly.

Whose end is destruction, whose god is their belly, and whose glory is in their shame—who set their mind on earthly things.

I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your reasonable service.

So the people of Nineveh believed God, proclaimed a fast, and put on sackcloth, from the greatest to the least of them.

Then I set my face toward the Lord God to make request by prayer and supplications, with fasting, sackcloth, and ashes.

Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they shall be filled.

So they gathered together at Mizpah, drew water, and poured it out before the LORD, and they fasted that day, and said there, We have sinned against the LORD. And Samuel judged the children of Israel at Mizpah.

Let us search out and examine our ways, and turn back to the LORD.

Speak to all the people of the land, and to the priests, saying: When you fasted and mourned in the fifth and seventh months during those seventy years, did you really fast for Me—for Me?

Let us therefore come boldly to the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy and find grace to help in time of need.

That if you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead, you will be saved.

The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.

You can make anything by writing.

Fasting is not about what we give up, but about what we gain in the process.

The greatest cause of atheism in the world today is Christians who acknowledge Jesus with their lips and walk out the door and deny him by their lifestyle.

In fasting, we can more clearly see our desires and needs, which leads us to a deeper understanding of forgiveness.