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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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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?

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.

Luke 7:18
The disciples of John told him about all these things.

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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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.

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.’ ”

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.”

Romans 10:2
For I testify about them that they have a zeal for God, but not according to knowledge.

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Matthew 4:12
Now when Jesus heard that John was delivered up, he withdrew into Galilee.

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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.”

Matthew 11:18
For John came neither eating nor drinking, and they say, ‘He has a demon.’

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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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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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.

1 Thessalonians 4:3
For this is the will of God: your sanctification, that you abstain from sexual immorality,

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