9 Bible Verses about Fasting Regularly

and then as a widow until she was eighty-four. She did not depart from the temple, worshiping with fasting and prayer night and day.

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 give tithes of all that I get.'

Since much time had passed, and the voyage was now dangerous because even the Fast was already over, Paul advised them,

saying to the priests of the house of the LORD of hosts and the prophets, "Should I weep and abstain in the fifth month, as I have done for so many years?"

"Say to all the people of the land and the priests, When you fasted and mourned in the fifth month and in the seventh, for these seventy years, was it for me that you fasted?

"Thus says the 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 seasons of joy and gladness and cheerful feasts. Therefore love truth and peace.

so you are to go, and on a day of fasting in the hearing of all the people in the LORD's house you shall read the words of the LORD from the scroll that you have written at my dictation. You shall read them also in the hearing of all the men of Judah who come out of their cities.