Be Holy Podcast

Be holy today...

27 Don’t brag about tomorrow,    since you don’t know what the day will bring.
2 Let someone else praise you, not your own mouth—    a stranger, not your own lips.
3 A stone is heavy and sand is weighty,    but the resentment caused by a fool is even heavier.
4 Anger is cruel, and wrath is like a flood,    but jealousy is even more dangerous.
5 An open rebuke    is better than hidden love!
6 Wounds from a sincere friend    are better than many kisses from an enemy.
7 A person who is full refuses honey,    but even bitter food tastes sweet to the hungry.

Don‘t Sufficate the Holy Spirit

1 Thessalonians 5:19 ESV / 11 helpful votes
 
Do not quench the Spirit.
Ephesians 4:30 ESV / 10 helpful votes
 
And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, by whom you were sealed for the day of redemption.
Ephesians 5:18 ESV / 7 helpful votes
 
And do not get drunk with wine, for that is debauchery, but be filled with the Spirit,
Acts 7:51 ESV / 6 helpful votes
 
“You stiff-necked people, uncircumcised in heart and ears, you always resist the Holy Spirit. As your fathers did, so do you.
1 Corinthians 13:1-13 ESV / 5 helpful votes
 
If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. If I give away all I have, and if I deliver up my body to be burned, but have not love, I gain nothing. Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; ...
Galatians 5:16 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
But I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh.
Romans 12:2 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.
Romans 8:1-39 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus. For the law of the Spirit of life has set you free in Christ Jesus from the law of sin and death. For God has done what the law, weakened by the flesh, could not do. By sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin, he condemned sin in the flesh, in order that the righteous requirement of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not according to the flesh but according to the Spirit. For those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit set their minds on the things of the Spirit. ...
John 16:13 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
When the Spirit of truth comes, he will guide you into all the truth, for he will not speak on his own authority, but whatever he hears he will speak, and he will declare to you the things that are to come.
John 15:26 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
“But when the Helper comes, whom I will send to you from the Father, the Spirit of truth, who proceeds from the Father, he will bear witness about me.
John 14:26 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
But the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, he will teach you all things and bring to your remembrance all that I have said to you.
John 7:38 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
Whoever believes in me, as the Scripture has said, ‘Out of his heart will flow rivers of living water.’”
2 Peter 1:21 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
For no prophecy was ever produced by the will of man, but men spoke from God as they were carried along by the Holy Spirit.
Hebrews 10:29 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
How much worse punishment, do you think, will be deserved by the one who has spurned the Son of God, and has profaned the blood of the covenant by which he was sanctified, and has outraged the Spirit of grace?
Hebrews 9:14 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
How much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without blemish to God, purify our conscience from dead works to serve the living God.
2 Timothy 3:16-17 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness, that the man of God may be competent, equipped for every good work.
2 Timothy 1:6 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
For this reason I remind you to fan into flame the gift of God, which is in you through the laying on of my hands,
Ephesians 4:13 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
Until we all attain to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to mature manhood, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ,

Daily Principles that we can live by EVERYDAY...

Principles
 
2 Timothy 3:16 ESV / 12 helpful votes
 
All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness,
Hebrews 4:12 ESV / 11 helpful votes
 
For the word of God is living and active, sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing to the division of soul and of spirit, of joints and of marrow, and discerning the thoughts and intentions of the heart.
Colossians 3:5 ESV / 9 helpful votes
 
Put to death therefore what is earthly in you: sexual immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry.
Matthew 28:18-20 ESV / 9 helpful votes
 
And Jesus came and said to them, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you. And behold, I am with you always, to the end of the age.”
Galatians 5:19-21 ESV / 8 helpful votes
 
Now the works of the flesh are evident: sexual immorality, impurity, sensuality, idolatry, sorcery, enmity, strife, jealousy, fits of anger, rivalries, dissensions, divisions, envy, drunkenness, orgies, and things like these. I warn you, as I warned you before, that those who do such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.
Galatians 5:22-23 ESV / 7 helpful votes
 
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law.
2 Timothy 2:22 ESV / 5 helpful votes
 
So flee youthful passions and pursue righteousness, faith, love, and peace, along with those who call on the Lord from a pure heart.
Matthew 5:28 ESV / 5 helpful votes
 
But I say to you that everyone who looks at a woman with lustful intent has already committed adultery with her in his heart.
1 Corinthians 6:18 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
Flee from sexual immorality. Every other sin a person commits is outside the body, but the sexually immoral person sins against his own body.
Romans 12:17-21 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
Repay no one evil for evil, but give thought to do what is honorable in the sight of all. If possible, so far as it depends on you, live peaceably with all. Beloved, never avenge yourselves, but leave it to the wrath of God, for it is written, “Vengeance is mine, I will repay, says the Lord.” To the contrary, “if your enemy is hungry, feed him; if he is thirsty, give him something to drink; for by so doing you will heap burning coals on his head.” Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.

Continue to Encourage People...regardless of what they say or do...

2 Timothy 3:16 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness,
Romans 6:23 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Leviticus 18:22 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
You shall not lie with a male as with a woman; it is an abomination.
1 John 4:9 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
In this the love of God was made manifest among us, that God sent his only Son into the world, so that we might live through him.
1 Peter 1:22 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Having purified your souls by your obedience to the truth for a sincere brotherly love, love one another earnestly from a pure heart,
2 Thessalonians 1:8 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
In flaming fire, inflicting vengeance on those who do not know God and on those who do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus.
1 Corinthians 6:11 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
And such were some of you. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.
1 Corinthians 6:9 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who practice homosexuality,
1 Corinthians 1:10 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
I appeal to you, brothers, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that all of you agree, and that there be no divisions among you, but that you be united in the same mind and the same judgment.

USA is in the Bible...

Ephesians 4:32 ESV / 1,685 helpful votes
 
Be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, as God in Christ forgave you.
Luke 6:31 ESV / 1,256 helpful votes
 
And as you wish that others would do to you, do so to them.
Ephesians 4:29-32 ESV / 1,146 helpful votes
 
Let no corrupting talk come out of your mouths, but only such as is good for building up, as fits the occasion, that it may give grace to those who hear. And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, by whom you were sealed for the day of redemption. Let all bitterness and wrath and anger and clamor and slander be put away from you, along with all malice. Be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, as God in Christ forgave you.
John 15:12 ESV / 1,031 helpful votes
 
“This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you.
Matthew 7:12 ESV / 823 helpful votes
 
“So whatever you wish that others would do to you, do also to them, for this is the Law and the Prophets.
1 John 4:20-21 ESV / 671 helpful votes
 
If anyone says, “I love God,” and hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who does not love his brother whom he has seen cannot love God whom he has not seen. And this commandment we have from him: whoever loves God must also love his brother.
Romans 12:10 ESV / 620 helpful votes
 
Love one another with brotherly affection. Outdo one another in showing honor.
Proverbs 24:17 ESV / 523 helpful votes
 
Do not rejoice when your enemy falls, and let not your heart be glad when he stumbles,
Romans 15:1-2 ESV / 455 helpful votes
 
We who are strong have an obligation to bear with the failings of the weak, and not to please ourselves. Let each of us please his neighbor for his good, to build him up.

Faith Brings Joy Pt 2

1 Peter 1:8 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Though you have not seen him, you love him. Though you do not now see him, you believe in him and rejoice with joy that is inexpressible and filled with glory,
James 2:26 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
For as the body apart from the spirit is dead, so also faith apart from works is dead.
James 2:23 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
And the Scripture was fulfilled that says, “Abraham believed God, and it was counted to him as righteousness”—and he was called a friend of God.
James 2:21-23 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Was not Abraham our father justified by works when he offered up his son Isaac on the altar? You see that faith was active along with his works, and faith was completed by his works; and the Scripture was fulfilled that says, “Abraham believed God, and it was counted to him as righteousness”—and he was called a friend of God.
James 2:19 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
You believe that God is one; you do well. Even the demons believe—and shudder!
James 2:17 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
So also faith by itself, if it does not have works, is dead.
James 2:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
And one of you says to them, “Go in peace, be warmed and filled,” without giving them the things needed for the body, what good is that?
James 2:15 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
If a brother or sister is poorly clothed and lacking in daily food,
James 2:1-26 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
My brothers, show no partiality as you hold the faith in our Lord Jesus Christ, the Lord of glory. For if a man wearing a gold ring and fine clothing comes into your assembly, and a poor man in shabby clothing also comes in, and if you pay attention to the one who wears the fine clothing and say, “You sit here in a good place,” while you say to the poor man, “You stand over there,” or, “Sit down at my feet,” have you not then made distinctions among yourselves and become judges with evil thoughts? Listen, my beloved brothers, has not God chosen those who are poor in the world to be rich in faith and heirs of the kingdom, which he has promised to those who love him? ...
James 1:8 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
He is a double-minded man, unstable in all his ways.
Hebrews 13:15 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Through him then let us continually offer up a sacrifice of praise to God, that is, the fruit of lips that acknowledge his name.
Hebrews 12:14 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Strive for peace with everyone, and for the holiness without which no one will see the Lord.
Hebrews 11:31 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
By faith Rahab the prostitute did not perish with those who were disobedient, because she had given a friendly welcome to the spies.
Hebrews 11:17-38 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
By faith Abraham, when he was tested, offered up Isaac, and he who had received the promises was in the act of offering up his only son, of whom it was said, “Through Isaac shall your offspring be named.” He considered that God was able even to raise him from the dead, from which, figuratively speaking, he did receive him back. By faith Isaac invoked future blessings on Jacob and Esau. By faith Jacob, when dying, blessed each of the sons of Joseph, bowing in worship over the head of his staff. ...
Hebrews 11:1-40 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen. For by it the people of old received their commendation. By faith we understand that the universe was created by the word of God, so that what is seen was not made out of things that are visible. By faith Abel offered to God a more acceptable sacrifice than Cain, through which he was commended as righteous, God commending him by accepting his gifts. And through his faith, though he died, he still speaks. By faith Enoch was taken up so that he should not see death, and he was not found, because God had taken him. Now before he was taken he was commended as having pleased God. ...
Hebrews 10:35-39 ESV / 2 helpful votes
 
Therefore do not throw away your confidence, which has a great reward. For you have need of endurance, so that when you have done the will of God you may receive what is promised. For, “Yet a little while, and the coming one will come and will not delay; but my righteous one shall live by faith, and if he shrinks back, my soul has no pleasure in him.” But we are not of those who shrink back and are destroyed, but of those who have faith and preserve their souls.

Faith Brings Joy!!!

Hebrews 11:6 ESV / 7 helpful votes
 
And without faith it is impossible to please him, for whoever would draw near to God must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who seek him.
Ephesians 2:8 ESV / 6 helpful votes
 
For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God,
Hebrews 11:1 ESV / 5 helpful votes
 
Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen.
Romans 10:17 ESV / 5 helpful votes
 
So faith comes from hearing, and hearing through the word of Christ.
Romans 1:17 ESV / 5 helpful votes
 
For in it the righteousness of God is revealed from faith for faith, as it is written, “The righteous shall live by faith.”
James 2:18 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
But someone will say, “You have faith and I have works.” Show me your faith apart from your works, and I will show you my faith by my works.
James 2:14 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
What good is it, my brothers, if someone says he has faith but does not have works? Can that faith save him?
Ephesians 2:9 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
Not a result of works, so that no one may boast.
Galatians 5:6 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision counts for anything, but only faith working through love.
2 Corinthians 5:7 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
For we walk by faith, not by sight.
Romans 10:10 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
For with the heart one believes and is justified, and with the mouth one confesses and is saved.
Romans 4:3 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
For what does the Scripture say? “Abraham believed God, and it was counted to him as righteousness.”
John 5:24 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
Truly, truly, I say to you, whoever hears my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life. He does not come into judgment, but has passed from death to life.
John 3:16 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.
Matthew 21:22 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
And whatever you ask in prayer, you will receive, if you have faith.”
Genesis 15:6 ESV / 4 helpful votes
 
And he believed the Lord, and he counted it to him as righteousness.
1 John 5:15 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
And if we know that he hears us in whatever we ask, we know that we have the requests that we have asked of him.
1 John 5:14 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
And this is the confidence that we have toward him, that if we ask anything according to his will he hears us.
1 Peter 1:7 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
So that the tested genuineness of your faith—more precious than gold that perishes though it is tested by fire—may be found to result in praise and glory and honor at the revelation of Jesus Christ.
James 2:14-26 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
What good is it, my brothers, if someone says he has faith but does not have works? Can that faith save him? If a brother or sister is poorly clothed and lacking in daily food, and one of you says to them, “Go in peace, be warmed and filled,” without giving them the things needed for the body, what good is that? So also faith by itself, if it does not have works, is dead. But someone will say, “You have faith and I have works.” Show me your faith apart from your works, and I will show you my faith by my works. ...
Hebrews 13:8 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever.
Hebrews 11:3 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
By faith we understand that the universe was created by the word of God, so that what is seen was not made out of things that are visible.
Ephesians 2:8-9 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, not a result of works, so that no one may boast.
Galatians 2:20 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
I have been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me. And the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.
Romans 14:23 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
But whoever has doubts is condemned if he eats, because the eating is not from faith. For whatever does not proceed from faith is sin.
Romans 12:3 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
For by the grace given to me I say to everyone among you not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think, but to think with sober judgment, each according to the measure of faith that God has assigned.
Romans 1:22 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
Claiming to be wise, they became fools,
Mark 11:23 ESV / 3 helpful votes
 
Truly, I say to you, whoever says to this mountain, ‘Be taken up and thrown into the sea,’ and does not doubt in his heart, but believes that what he says will come to pass, it will be done for him.

Correcting Other Believers!

Correction
 
Hebrews 12:11 ESV / 197 helpful votes
 
For the moment all discipline seems painful rather than pleasant, but later it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness to those who have been trained by it.
Proverbs 12:1 ESV / 196 helpful votes
 
Whoever loves discipline loves knowledge, but he who hates reproof is stupid.
2 Timothy 3:16 ESV / 142 helpful votes
 
All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness,
Proverbs 15:32 ESV / 137 helpful votes
 
Whoever ignores instruction despises himself, but he who listens to reproof gains intelligence.
Proverbs 29:15 ESV / 102 helpful votes
 
The rod and reproof give wisdom, but a child left to himself brings shame to his mother.
Hebrews 12:5-11 ESV / 97 helpful votes
 
And have you forgotten the exhortation that addresses you as sons? “My son, do not regard lightly the discipline of the Lord, nor be weary when reproved by him. For the Lord disciplines the one he loves, and chastises every son whom he receives.” It is for discipline that you have to endure. God is treating you as sons. For what son is there whom his father does not discipline? If you are left without discipline, in which all have participated, then you are illegitimate children and not sons. Besides this, we have had earthly fathers who disciplined us and we respected them. Shall we not much more be subject to the Father of spirits and live? ...
Proverbs 8:33 ESV / 79 helpful votes
 
Hear instruction and be wise, and do not neglect it.
Proverbs 13:24 ESV / 65 helpful votes
 
Whoever spares the rod hates his son, but he who loves him is diligent to discipline him.
Proverbs 9:7-9 ESV / 64 helpful votes
 
Whoever corrects a scoffer gets himself abuse, and he who reproves a wicked man incurs injury. Do not reprove a scoffer, or he will hate you; reprove a wise man, and he will love you. Give instruction to a wise man, and he will be still wiser; teach a righteous man, and he will increase in learning.
2 Timothy 3:16-17 ESV / 63 helpful votes
 
All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness, that the man of God may be competent, equipped for every good work.
Proverbs 6:23 ESV / 61 helpful votes
 
For the commandment is a lamp and the teaching a light, and the reproofs of discipline are the way of life,
James 5:19-20 ESV / 53 helpful votes
 
My brothers, if anyone among you wanders from the truth and someone brings him back, let him know that whoever brings back a sinner from his wandering will save his soul from death and will cover a multitude of sins.

Fasting Pt 3

Ezra 8:23 ESV / 547 helpful votes
 
So we fasted and implored our God for this, and he listened to our entreaty.
Psalm 35:13 ESV / 542 helpful votes
 
But I, when they were sick— I wore sackcloth; I afflicted myself with fasting; I prayed with head bowed on my chest.
Acts 13:2 ESV / 513 helpful votes
 
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.”
Luke 18:12 ESV / 491 helpful votes
 
I fast twice a week; I give tithes of all that I get.’
Luke 2:37 ESV / 477 helpful votes
 
And then as a widow until she was eighty-four. She did not depart from the temple, worshiping with fasting and prayer night and day.
Ezra 8:21-23 ESV / 460 helpful votes
 
Then I proclaimed a fast there, at the river Ahava, that we might humble ourselves before our God, to seek from him a safe journey for ourselves, our children, and all our goods. For I was ashamed to ask the king for a band of soldiers and horsemen to protect us against the enemy on our way, since we had told the king, “The hand of our God is for good on all who seek him, and the power of his wrath is against all who forsake him.” So we fasted and implored our God for this, and he listened to our entreaty.
Esther 4:16 ESV / 432 helpful votes
 
“Go, gather all the Jews to be found in Susa, and hold a fast on my behalf, and do not eat or drink for three days, night or day. I and my young women will also fast as you do. Then I will go to the king, though it is against the law, and if I perish, I perish.”
Acts 13:3 ESV / 417 helpful votes
 
Then after fasting and praying they laid their hands on them and sent them off.
Daniel 9:3 ESV / 398 helpful votes
 
Then I turned my face to the Lord God, seeking him by prayer and pleas for mercy with fasting and sackcloth and ashes.
Exodus 34:28 ESV / 390 helpful votes
 
So he was there with the Lord forty days and forty nights. He neither ate bread nor drank water. And he wrote on the tablets the words of the covenant, the Ten Commandments.
Matthew 6:16 ESV / 381 helpful votes
 
“And when you fast, do not look gloomy like the hypocrites, for they disfigure their faces that their fasting may be seen by others. Truly, I say to you, they have received their reward.
Isaiah 58:1-14 ESV / 306 helpful votes
 
“Cry aloud; do not hold back; lift up your voice like a trumpet; declare to my people their transgression, to the house of Jacob their sins. Yet they seek me daily and delight to know my ways, as if they were a nation that did righteousness and did not forsake the judgment of their God; they ask of me righteous judgments; they delight to draw near to God. ‘Why have we fasted, and you see it not? Why have we humbled ourselves, and you take no knowledge of it?’ Behold, in the day of your fast you seek your own pleasure, and oppress all your workers. Behold, you fast only to quarrel and to fight and to hit with a wicked fist. Fasting like yours this day will not make your voice to be heard on high. Is such the fast that I choose, a day for a person to humble himself? Is it to bow down his head like a reed, and to spread sackcloth and ashes under him? Will you call this a fast, and a day acceptable to the Lord? ...
1 Corinthians 10:31 ESV / 265 helpful votes
 
So, whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.
Matthew 4:2 ESV / 263 helpful votes
 
And after fasting forty days and forty nights, he was hungry.
Acts 9:9 ESV / 244 helpful votes
 
And for three days he was without sight, and neither ate nor drank.
2 Samuel 1:12 ESV / 239 helpful votes
 
And they mourned and wept and fasted until evening for Saul and for Jonathan his son and for the people of the Lord and for the house of Israel, because they had fallen by the sword.
1 Corinthians 9:27 ESV / 237 helpful votes
 
But I discipline my body and keep it under control, lest after preaching to others I myself should be disqualified.
Judges 20:26 ESV / 224 helpful votes
 
Then all the people of Israel, the whole army, went up and came to Bethel and wept. They sat there before the Lord and fasted that day until evening, and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings before the Lord.
Mark 9:29 ESV / 217 helpful votes
 
And he said to them, “This kind cannot be driven out by anything but prayer.”
Ezra 8:21 ESV / 217 helpful votes
 
Then I proclaimed a fast there, at the river Ahava, that we might humble ourselves before our God, to seek from him a safe journey for ourselves, our children, and all our goods.
Joel 1:14 ESV / 207 helpful votes
 
Consecrate a fast; call a solemn assembly. Gather the elders and all the inhabitants of the land to the house of the Lord your God, and cry out to the Lord.
Isaiah 58:6-7 ESV / 207 helpful votes
 
“Is not this the fast that I choose: to loose the bonds of wickedness, to undo the straps of the yoke, to let the oppressed go free, and to break every yoke? Is it not to share your bread with the hungry and bring the homeless poor into your house; when you see the naked, to cover him, and not to hide yourself from your own flesh?
Matthew 9:15 ESV / 184 helpful votes
 
And Jesus said to them, “Can the wedding guests mourn as long as the bridegroom is with them? The days will come when the bridegroom is taken away from them, and then they will fast.
Matthew 9:14-15 ESV / 179 helpful votes
 
Then the disciples of John came to him, saying, “Why do we and the Pharisees fast, but your disciples do not fast?” And Jesus said to them, “Can the wedding guests mourn as long as the bridegroom is with them? The days will come when the bridegroom is taken away from them, and then they will fast.
Isaiah 58:3 ESV / 175 helpful votes
 
‘Why have we fasted, and you see it not? Why have we humbled ourselves, and you take no knowledge of it?’ Behold, in the day of your fast you seek your own pleasure, and oppress all your workers.
Ezra 10:6 ESV / 174 helpful votes
 
Then Ezra withdrew from before the house of God and went to the chamber of Jehohanan the son of Eliashib, where he spent the night, neither eating bread nor drinking water, for he was mourning over the faithlessness of the exiles.
1 Corinthians 7:1-5 ESV / 171 helpful votes
 
Now concerning the matters about which you wrote: “It is good for a man not to have sexual relations with a woman.” But because of the temptation to sexual immorality, each man should have his own wife and each woman her own husband. The husband should give to his wife her conjugal rights, and likewise the wife to her husband. For the wife does not have authority over her own body, but the husband does. Likewise the husband does not have authority over his own body, but the wife does. Do not deprive one another, except perhaps by agreement for a limited time, that you may devote yourselves to prayer; but then come together again, so that Satan may not tempt you because of your lack of self-control.

Fasting...How does GOD want it done?

Matthew 6:16-18 ESV / 2,088 helpful votes
 
“And when you fast, do not look gloomy like the hypocrites, for they disfigure their faces that their fasting may be seen by others. Truly, I say to you, they have received their reward. But when you fast, anoint your head and wash your face, that your fasting may not be seen by others but by your Father who is in secret. And your Father who sees in secret will reward you.
Isaiah 58:3-7 ESV / 1,207 helpful votes
 
‘Why have we fasted, and you see it not? Why have we humbled ourselves, and you take no knowledge of it?’ Behold, in the day of your fast you seek your own pleasure, and oppress all your workers. Behold, you fast only to quarrel and to fight and to hit with a wicked fist. Fasting like yours this day will not make your voice to be heard on high. Is such the fast that I choose, a day for a person to humble himself? Is it to bow down his head like a reed, and to spread sackcloth and ashes under him? Will you call this a fast, and a day acceptable to the Lord? “Is not this the fast that I choose: to loose the bonds of wickedness, to undo the straps of the yoke, to let the oppressed go free, and to break every yoke? Is it not to share your bread with the hungry and bring the homeless poor into your house; when you see the naked, to cover him, and not to hide yourself from your own flesh?
Joel 2:12 ESV / 1,106 helpful votes
 
“Yet even now,” declares the Lord, “return to me with all your heart, with fasting, with weeping, and with mourning;
Psalm 69:10 ESV / 887 helpful votes
 
When I wept and humbled my soul with fasting, it became my reproach.
Matthew 6:18 ESV / 821 helpful votes
 
That your fasting may not be seen by others but by your Father who is in secret. And your Father who sees in secret will reward you.
Daniel 10:3 ESV / 820 helpful votes
 
I ate no delicacies, no meat or wine entered my mouth, nor did I anoint myself at all, for the full three weeks.
Acts 14:23 ESV / 787 helpful votes
 
And when they had appointed elders for them in every church, with prayer and fasting they committed them to the Lord in whom they had believed.
Isaiah 58:6 ESV / 637 helpful votes
 
“Is not this the fast that I choose: to loose the bonds of wickedness, to undo the straps of the yoke, to let the oppressed go free, and to break every yoke?
Luke 4:2 ESV / 598 helpful votes
 
For forty days, being tempted by the devil. And he ate nothing during those days. And when they were ended, he was hungry.
1 Corinthians 7:5 ESV / 588 helpful votes
 
Do not deprive one another, except perhaps by agreement for a limited time, that you may devote yourselves to prayer; but then come together again, so that Satan may not tempt you because of your lack of self-control.
Nehemiah 1:4 ESV / 557 helpful votes
 
As soon as I heard these words I sat down and wept and mourned for days, and I continued fasting and praying before the God of heaven.
Matthew 4:4 ESV / 548 helpful votes
 
But he answered, “It is written, “‘Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that comes from the mouth of God.’”