9 Bible Verses about Fasting Regularly

and then as a widow to the age of eighty-four. She never left the temple, serving night and day with fastings and prayers.

For John came neither eating nor drinking, and they say, ‘He has a demon!’

For John the Baptist has come eating no bread and drinking no wine, and you say, ‘He has a demon!’

I fast twice a week; I pay tithes of all that I get.’

When considerable time had passed and the voyage was now dangerous, since even the fast was already over, Paul began to admonish them,

speaking to the priests who belong to the house of the Lord of hosts, and to the prophets, saying, “Shall I weep in the fifth month and abstain, as I have done these many years?”

“Say to all the people of the land and to the priests, ‘When you fasted and mourned in the fifth and seventh months these seventy years, was it actually for Me that you fasted?

“Thus says the Lord of hosts, ‘The fast of the fourth, the fast of the fifth, the fast of the seventh and the fast of the tenth months will become joy, gladness, and cheerful feasts for the house of Judah; so love truth and peace.’

So you go and read from the scroll which you have written at my dictation the words of the Lord to the people in the Lord’s house on a fast day. And also you shall read them to all the people of Judah who come from their cities.