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  1. Therefore also now, saith the LORD, turn ye even to me with all your heart, and with fasting, and with weeping, and with mourning:

  2. And I set my face unto the Lord God, to seek by prayer and supplications, with fasting, and sackcloth, and ashes:

  3. In weariness and painfulness, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness.

  4. And when they had ordained them elders in every church, and had prayed with fasting, they commended them to the Lord, on whom they believed.

  5. In stripes, in imprisonments, in tumults, in labours, in watchings, in fastings;

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  1. 16Moreover when ye fast, be not, as the hypocrites, of a sad countenance: for they disfigure their faces, that they may appear unto men to fast. Verily I say unto you, They have their reward.

    17But thou, when thou fastest, anoint thine head, and wash thy face;

    18That thou appear not unto men to fast, but unto thy Father which is in secret: and thy Father, which seeth in secret, shall reward thee openly.