Matthew 9:14
Then John’s disciples came to him, saying, “Why do we and the Pharisees fast often, but your disciples don’t fast?”
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Matthew 9:14
Then John’s disciples came to him, saying, “Why do we and the Pharisees fast often, but your disciples don’t fast?”
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Matthew 9:15
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.
Matthew 9:16
No one puts a piece of unshrunk cloth on an old garment; for the patch would tear away from the garment, and a worse hole is made.
Matthew 9:17
Neither do people put new wine into old wine skins, or else the skins would burst, and the wine be spilled, and the skins ruined. No, they put new wine into fresh wine skins, and both are preserved.”
Mark 2:18
John’s disciples and the Pharisees were fasting, and they came and asked him, “Why do John’s disciples and the disciples of the Pharisees fast, but your disciples don’t fast?”
Mark 2:19
Jesus said to them, “Can the groomsmen fast while the bridegroom is with them? As long as they have the bridegroom with them, they can’t fast.
Mark 2:20
But the days will come when the bridegroom will be taken away from them, and then they will fast in that day.
Mark 2:21
No one sews a piece of unshrunk cloth on an old garment, or else the patch shrinks and the new tears away from the old, and a worse hole is made.
Mark 2:22
No one puts new wine into old wineskins; or else the new wine will burst the skins, and the wine pours out, and the skins will be destroyed; but they put new wine into fresh wineskins.”
Luke 5:33
They said to him, “Why do John’s disciples often fast and pray, likewise also the disciples of the Pharisees, but yours eat and drink?”
Luke 5:34
He said to them, “Can you make the friends of the bridegroom fast while the bridegroom is with them?
Luke 5:35
But the days will come when the bridegroom will be taken away from them. Then they will fast in those days.”
Luke 5:36
He also told a parable to them. “No one puts a piece from a new garment on an old garment, or else he will tear the new, and also the piece from the new will not match the old.
Luke 5:37
No one puts new wine into old wine skins, or else the new wine will burst the skins, and it will be spilled and the skins will be destroyed.
Luke 5:38
But new wine must be put into fresh wine skins, and both are preserved.
Luke 5:39
No man having drunk old wine immediately desires new, for he says, ‘The old is better.’ ”
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Luke 18:12
I fast twice a week. I give tithes of all that I get.’
Matthew 6:16
“Moreover when you fast, don’t be like the hypocrites, with sad faces. For they disfigure their faces that they may be seen by men to be fasting. Most certainly I tell you, they have received their reward.
Isaiah 58:3
‘Why have we fasted,’ they say, ‘and you don’t see? Why have we afflicted our soul, and you don’t notice?’ “Behold, in the day of your fast you find pleasure, and oppress all your laborers.
Psalms 35:13
But as for me, when they were sick, my clothing was sackcloth. I afflicted my soul with fasting. My prayer returned into my own bosom.
Isaiah 58:5
Is this the fast that I have chosen? A day for a man to humble his soul? Is it to bow down his head like a reed, and to spread sackcloth and ashes under himself? Will you call this a fast, and an acceptable day to Yahweh?
Zechariah 7:6
When you eat and when you drink, don’t you eat for yourselves and drink for yourselves?
Matthew 6:1
“Be careful that you don’t do your charitable giving before men, to be seen by them, or else you have no reward from your Father who is in heaven.
Matthew 6:5
“When you pray, you shall not be as the hypocrites, for they love to stand and pray in the synagogues and in the corners of the streets, that they may be seen by men. Most certainly, I tell you, they have received their reward.
Luke 11:1
When he finished praying in a certain place, one of his disciples said to him, “Lord, teach us to pray, just as John also taught his disciples.”
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Matthew 11:2
Now when John heard in the prison the works of Christ, he sent two of his disciples
John 3:25
Therefore a dispute arose on the part of John’s disciples with some Jews about purification.
Matthew 14:12
His disciples came, took the body, and buried it. Then they went and told Jesus.
Matthew 4:12
Now when Jesus heard that John was delivered up, he withdrew into Galilee.
Luke 7:18
The disciples of John told him about all these things.
John 4:1
Therefore when the Lord knew that the Pharisees had heard that Jesus was making and baptizing more disciples than John
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Matthew 9:11
When the Pharisees saw it, they said to his disciples, “Why does your teacher eat with tax collectors and sinners?”
Matthew 11:18
For John came neither eating nor drinking, and they say, ‘He has a demon.’
Matthew 11:19
The Son of Man came eating and drinking, and they say, ‘Behold, a gluttonous man and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners!’ But wisdom is justified by her children.”
Matthew 7:1
“Don’t judge, so that you won’t be judged.
Matthew 9:34
But the Pharisees said, “By the prince of the demons, he casts out demons.”
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Matthew 3:4
Now John himself wore clothing made of camel’s hair with a leather belt around his waist. His food was locusts and wild honey.
1 Thessalonians 4:3
For this is the will of God: your sanctification, that you abstain from sexual immorality,
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Matthew 15:2
“Why do your disciples disobey the tradition of the elders? For they don’t wash their hands when they eat bread.”
Matthew 15:7
You hypocrites! Well did Isaiah prophesy of you, saying,
Matthew 15:8
‘These people draw near to me with their mouth, and honor me with their lips; but their heart is far from me.
Matthew 15:9
And they worship me in vain, teaching as doctrine rules made by men.’ ”
Romans 10:2
For I testify about them that they have a zeal for God, but not according to knowledge.
Colossians 2:23
These things indeed appear like wisdom in self-imposed worship, humility, and severity to the body, but aren’t of any value against the indulgence of the flesh.
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Daniel 9:3
I set my face to the Lord God, to seek by prayer and petitions, with fasting and sackcloth and ashes.
Luke 2:37
and she had been a widow for about eighty-four years), who didn’t depart from the temple, worshiping with fastings and petitions night and day.
Acts 10:30
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 13:2
As they served the Lord and fasted, the Holy Spirit said, “Separate Barnabas and Saul for me, for the work to which I have called them.”
Acts 13:3
Then, when they had fasted and prayed and laid their hands on them, they sent them away.
1 Corinthians 7:5
Don’t deprive one another, unless it is by consent for a season, that you may give yourselves to fasting and prayer, and may be together again, that Satan doesn’t tempt you because of your lack of self-control.
2 Corinthians 6:5
in beatings, in imprisonments, in riots, in labors, in watchings, in fastings,
2 Corinthians 11:27
in labor and travail, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, and in cold and nakedness.
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