Fastings
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Greek
3521. nesteia -- fasting, a fast
... Word Origin from nesteuo Definition fasting, a fast NASB Word Usage fast (1), fasting
(2), fastings (1), hunger (1), without food (1). fasting. ...
//strongsnumbers.com/greek2/3521.htm - 6k
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Delight Thyself Rather in Fastings than in Feastings, Mindful of ...
... The Doubtful Letters Of Sulpitius Severus. Chapter XVIII. Delight thyself rather
in fastings than in feastings, mindful of that widow who did not? ...
/.../chapter xviii delight thyself rather.htm

How Peace of Mind Should be Sought.
... For this we must seek for solitude, for this we know that we ought to submit to
fastings, vigils, toils, bodily nakedness, reading, and all other virtues that ...
/.../cassian/the works of john cassian /chapter vii how peace of.htm

Concerning Lowliness of Mind.
... For this, even when conjoined with righteousness and fastings and tithes, fell behind;
while that, even when yoked with sin, out-stripped the Pharisee's pair ...
/.../chrysostom/on the priesthood/concerning lowliness of mind.htm

Of the Inconsistencies of the Psychics.
... at the bidding of a man's edict, and all unitedly, how is it that in our case you
set a brand upon the very unity also of our fastings, and xerophagies, and ...
/.../chapter xiii of the inconsistencies of.htm

Special Preparation for Baptism.
... "Those who are coming to Baptism," says Tertullian, "must be constantly engaged
in prayers, fastings, kneelings, and watchings, together with confession of all ...
/.../chapter iii special preparation for baptism.htm

Decrees of Fabian.
... Taken from the Decretal of Gratian. I. That the man who refuses to be reconciled
to his brother should be reduced by the severest fastings. [2876]. ...
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Spiritual Culture.
... As you value your soul, pray, and "pray without ceasing.". Fastings. ... On occasions
where great faith was required, fastings were recommended by the Savior. ...
//christianbookshelf.org/orr/the gospel day /chapter xi spiritual culture.htm

The Answer to the Effect that Bad Men Cannot Possess True ...
... that he might explain which follows what, and which gives birth to what, after some
others he proceeds as follows: "In watchings, in fastings, in chastity, in ...
/.../cassian/the conferences of john cassian/chapter xvi the answer to.htm

section 4
... of God, in much patience, in afflictions, in necessities, in distresses, in stripes,
in imprisonments, in tumults, in labours, in watchings, in fastings. ... ...
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On the Fast of the Ten Month, viii.
... for, pride strives for, luxury lusts after, is overcome by the solid force of this
virtue, who can fail to understand the aid which is given us by fastings? ...
/.../christianbookshelf.org/leo/writings of leo the great/sermon xix on the fast.htm

Thesaurus
Fastings (6 Occurrences)
...Fastings (6 Occurrences). ... (DBY YLT). 2 Corinthians 6:5 in beatings, in imprisonments,
in riots, in labors, in watchings, in fastings; (WEB KJV ASV DBY WBS YLT). ...
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Nights (27 Occurrences)
... Olives; (YLT). 2 Corinthians 6:5 in beatings, in imprisonments, in riots, in
labors, in watchings, in fastings; (See NIV). 2 Corinthians ...
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Watchings (3 Occurrences)
... Watchings (3 Occurrences). 2 Corinthians 6:5 in beatings, in imprisonments, in riots,
in labors, in watchings, in fastings; (WEB KJV ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT). ...
/w/watchings.htm - 7k

Fasting (34 Occurrences)
... Luke 2:37 and she had been a widow for about eighty-four years), who didn't depart
from the temple, worshipping with fastings and petitions night and day. ...
/f/fasting.htm - 23k

Vote (3 Occurrences)
... Acts 14:23 and having appointed to them by vote elders in every assembly, having
prayed with fastings, they commended them to the Lord in whom they had believed ...
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Nakedness (50 Occurrences)
... 2 Corinthians 11:27 in labor and travail, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst,
in fastings often, and in cold and nakedness. (WEB KJV ASV DBY WBS YLT). ...
/n/nakedness.htm - 26k

Labors (27 Occurrences)
... (WEB NAS NIV). 2 Corinthians 6:5 in beatings, in imprisonments, in riots,
in labors, in watchings, in fastings; (WEB ASV WBS NAS RSV). ...
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Lamenting (8 Occurrences)
... as Mordecai the Jew and Esther the queen had decreed, and as they had imposed upon
themselves and their descendants, in the matter of the fastings and their cry ...
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Laboriousness (1 Occurrence)
... 2 Corinthians 11:27 in laboriousness and painfulness, in watchings many times, in
hunger and thirst, in fastings many times, in cold and nakedness; (YLT). ...
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Lamentation (45 Occurrences)
... as Mordecai the Jew and Esther the queen had decreed, and as they had imposed upon
themselves and their descendants, in the matter of the fastings and their cry ...
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Fastings (6 Occurrences)

Luke 2:37
and she had been a widow for about eighty-four years), who didn't depart from the temple, worshipping with fastings and petitions night and day.
(WEB KJV ASV DBY WBS NAS)

Acts 14:23
And having chosen them elders in each assembly, having prayed with fastings, they committed them to the Lord, on whom they had believed.
(DBY YLT)

2 Corinthians 6:5
in beatings, in imprisonments, in riots, in labors, in watchings, in fastings;
(WEB KJV ASV DBY WBS YLT)

2 Corinthians 11:27
in labor and travail, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, and in cold and nakedness.
(WEB KJV WEY ASV DBY WBS YLT)

Esther 9:31
to confirm these days of Purim in their appointed times, as Mordecai the Jew and Esther the queen had decreed, and as they had imposed upon themselves and their descendants, in the matter of the fastings and their cry.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT)

Psalms 35:13
And I -- in their sickness my clothing 'is' sackcloth, I have humbled with fastings my soul, And my prayer unto my bosom returneth.
(YLT)

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Fastings

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