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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.

Now when much time was spent, and when sailing was now dangerous, because the fast was now already past, Paul admonished them,

Defraud ye not one the other, except it be with consent for a time, that ye may give yourselves to fasting and prayer; and come together again, that Satan tempt you not for your incontinency.

In stripes, in imprisonments, in tumults, in labours, in watchings, in fastings;

In weariness and painfulness, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness.

And she was a widow of about fourscore and four years, which departed not from the temple, but served God with fastings and prayers night and day.

And he said unto them, This kind can come forth by nothing, but by prayer and fasting.

Howbeit this kind goeth not out but by prayer and fasting.