9 Bible Verses about Fasting Regularly

She had been a widow for eighty-four years); she was in the Temple at all times, worshipping with prayers and going without food, night and day.

For John came, taking no food or drink, and they say, He has an evil spirit.

For John the Baptist came, taking no food or drink, and you say, He has an evil spirit.

Twice in the week I go without food; I give a tenth of all I have.

And as a long time had gone by, and the journey was now full of danger, because it was late in the year, Paul put the position before them,

And to say to the priests of the house of the Lord of armies and to the prophets, Am I to go on weeping in the fifth month, separating myself as I have done in past years?

Say to all the people of the land and to the priests, When you went without food and gave yourselves to grief in the fifth and the seventh months for these seventy years, did you ever do it because of me?

This is what the Lord of armies has said: The times of going without food in the fourth month and in the fifth and the seventh and the tenth months, will be for the people of Judah times of joy and happy meetings; so be lovers of good faith and of peace.

So you are to go, reading there from the book, which you have taken down from my mouth, the words of the Lord, in the hearing of the people in the Lord's house, on a day when they go without food, and in the hearing of all the men of Judah who have come out from their towns.