Bible Verses About Fasting

And Jesus said to them, `Can the sons of the bride-chamber mourn, so long as the bridegroom is with them? but days shall come when the bridegroom may be taken from them, and then they shall fast.

And they said unto him, `Wherefore do the disciples of John fast often, and make supplications--in like manner also those of the Pharisees--but thine do eat and drink?'

And he said unto them, `Are ye able to make the sons of the bride-chamber--in the bridegroom being with them--to fast?

but days will come, and, when the bridegroom may be taken away from them, then they shall fast in those days.'

And till the day was about to be, Paul was calling upon all to partake of nourishment, saying, `Fourteen days to-day, waiting, ye continue fasting, having taken nothing,

wherefore I call upon you to take nourishment, for this is for your safety, for of not one of you shall a hair from the head fall;'