9 Bible Verses about Fasting Regularly

and this woman was a widow to eighty-four years), who did not depart from the temple, serving with fastings and supplications night and day.

For John came neither eating nor drinking, and they say, He has a demon.

For John the immerser has come neither eating bread nor drinking wine, and ye say, He has a demon.

I fast twice per Sabbath. I tithe all things, as many as I acquire.

And considerable time having past, and the voyage now being dangerous, also because the Fast was now past, Paul urged,

[and] to speak to the priests of the house of LORD of hosts, and to the prophets, saying, Should I weep in the fifth month, separating myself, as I have done these so many years?

Speak to all the people of the land, and to the priests, saying, When ye fasted and mourned in the fifth and in the seventh [month], even these seventy years, did ye at all fast to me, even to me?

Thus says LORD of hosts: The fast of the fourth [month], and the fast of the fifth, and the fast of the seventh, and the fast of the tenth, shall be to the house of Judah, joy and gladness, and cheerful feasts. Therefore love truth

Therefore go thou, and read in the roll, which thou have written from my mouth, the words of LORD in the ears of the people in LORD's house upon the fast-day. And also thou shall read them in the ears of all Judah who come out of t