Top 30 Bible Verses about 21 Days Fasting

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?

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

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

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

As they ministered to the Lord and fasted, the Holy Spirit said, Now separate to Me Barnabas and Saul for the work to which I have called them.

I ate no pleasant food, no meat or wine came into my mouth, nor did I anoint myself at all, till three whole weeks were fulfilled.

But I discipline my body and bring it into subjection, lest, when I have preached to others, I myself should become disqualified.

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.

Being tempted for forty days by the devil. And in those days he ate nothing, and afterward, when they had ended, he was hungry.

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.

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.

Go, gather all the Jews who are present in Shushan, and fast for me; neither eat nor drink for three days, night or day. My maids and I will fast likewise.

I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me.

For bodily exercise profits a little, but godliness is profitable for all things, having promise of the life that now is and of that which is to come.

Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and He will lift you up.

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.

Then you shall call, and the LORD will answer; You shall cry, and He will say, Here I am.

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

And Jehoshaphat feared, and set himself to seek the LORD, and proclaimed a fast throughout all Judah.

Watch and pray, lest you enter into temptation. The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.

Then they said to Him, Why do the disciples of John fast often, and make prayers, and likewise those of the Pharisees, but Yours eat and drink?

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.

The LORD will guide you continually, And satisfy your soul in drought, And strengthen your bones; You shall be like a watered garden, And like a spring of water, whose waters do not fail.

In stripes, in imprisonments, in tumults, in labors, in sleeplessness, in fastings.

But He said to them, I have food to eat of which you do not know.

For the flesh lusts against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; and these are contrary to one another, so that you do not do the things that you wish.

And when He had fasted forty days and forty nights, afterward He was hungry.

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.

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