(30) Fasting.

Prayer and fasting are good, but better than either is almsgiving accompanied by righteousness. (Tob 12:8)

except the tree of knowledge of good and bad. From that tree you shall not eat; (Gen 2:17)

Thus says the LORD of hosts: The fast days of the fourth, the fifth, the seventh, and the tenth months shall become occasions of joy and gladness, cheerful festivals for the house of Judah; only love faithfulness and peace. (Zech 8:19)

He replied: «While the child was living, I fasted and wept, thinking, ‘Perhaps the LORD will grant me the child’s life.’ (2 Sam 12:22)

I turned to the Lord God, pleading in earnest prayer, with fasting, sackcloth, and ashes. (Dan 9:3)

So we fasted, and prayed to our God for this, and our petition was granted. (Ezra 8:23)

Then Jesus was led by the Spirit into the desert to be tempted by the devil. He fasted for forty days and forty nights, and afterwards he was hungry. (Matt 4:1-2)

While they were worshiping the Lord and fasting, the holy Spirit said, «Set apart for me Barnabas and Saul for the work to which I have called them.» Then, completing their fasting and prayer, they laid hands on them and sent them off. (Acts 13:2-3)

They appointed presbyters for them in each church and, with prayer and fasting, commended them to the Lord in whom they had put their faith. (Acts 14:23)

they drew water and poured it out on the ground before the LORD, and they fasted that day, confessing, We have sinned against the LORD. (1 Sam 7:6)

when I had gone up the mountain to receive the stone tablets of the covenant which the LORD made with you. Meanwhile I stayed on the mountain forty days and forty nights without eating or drinking, (Deut 9:9)

Yet even now, says the LORD, return to me with your whole heart, with fasting, and weeping, and mourning; (Joel 2:12)