Bible Verses About Fasting: Rejected
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Therefore also now, saith the LORD, turn ye even to me with all your heart, and with fasting, and with weeping, and with mourning:
And I set my face unto the Lord God, to seek by prayer and supplications, with fasting, and sackcloth, and ashes:
In weariness and painfulness, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness.
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.
In stripes, in imprisonments, in tumults, in labours, in watchings, in fastings;
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Wherefore have we fasted, say they, and thou seest not? wherefore have we afflicted our soul, and thou takest no knowledge? Behold, in the day of your fast ye find pleasure, and exact all your labours.
When they fast, I will not hear their cry; and when they offer burnt offering and an oblation, I will not accept them: but I will consume them by the sword, and by the famine, and by the pestilence.