Bible Quotations on Fasting & Detaching from Ego
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DETACH & RESIST
“And if thy right eye offend thee, pluck it out, and cast it from thee: for it is profitable for thee that one of thy members should perish, and not that thy whole body should be cast into hell.”–Matthew 5:29
“And if thy right hand offend thee, cut it off, and cast it from thee: for it is profitable for thee that one of thy members should perish, and not that thy whole body should be cast into hell.”–Matthew 5:30
“Wherefore if thy hand or thy foot offend thee, cut them off, and cast them from thee: it is better for thee to enter into life halt or maimed, rather than having two hands or two feet to be cast into everlasting fire.”–Matthew 18:8
“And if thine eye offend thee, pluck it out, and cast it from thee: it is better for thee to enter into life with one eye, rather than having two eyes to be cast into hell fire.”–Matthew 18:9
“And if thy hand offend thee, cut it off: it is better for thee to enter into life maimed, than having two hands to go into hell, into the fire that never shall be quenched:”–Mark 9:43
“And if thine eye offend thee, pluck it out: it is better for thee to enter into the kingdom of God with one eye, than having two eyes to be cast into hell fire:”–Mark 9:47
“Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry:”–Colossians 3:3
“Ye have not yet resisted unto blood, striving against sin.”–Hebrews 12:4
FASTING
“But as for me, when they were sick, my clothing was sackcloth: I humbled my soul with fasting; and my prayer returned into mine own bosom.”–Psalms 35:13
“My knees are weak through fasting; and my flesh faileth of fatness.”–Psalms 109:24
“And when he had fasted forty days and forty nights, he was afterward an hungred.”–Matthew 4:2
“Moreover 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. But thou, when thou fastest, anoint thine head, and wash thy face; That 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.”–Matthew 6:16-18
“Howbeit this kind goeth not out but by prayer and fasting.”–Matthew 17:21
“And he said unto them, This kind can come forth by nothing, but by prayer and fasting.”–Mark 9:29
“As they ministered to the Lord, and fasted, the Holy Ghost said, Separate me Barnabas and Saul for the work whereunto I have called them.”–Acts 13:2
“And when they had fasted and prayed, and laid their hands on them, they sent them away.”–Acts13:3
“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.”–Acts 14:23
