9 Bible Verses about Fasting Regularly
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and was a widow for 84 years. She did not leave the temple complex, serving God night and day with fasting and prayers.
For John the Baptist did not come eating bread or drinking wine, and you say, ‘He has a demon!’
By now much time had passed, and the voyage was already dangerous. Since the Fast was already over, Paul gave his advice
by asking the priests who were at the house of the Lord of Hosts as well as the prophets, “Should we mourn and fast in the fifth month as we have done these many years?”
“Ask all the people of the land and the priests: When you fasted and lamented in the fifth and in the seventh months for these 70 years, did you really fast for Me?
“The Lord of Hosts says this: The fast of the fourth month, the fast of the fifth, the fast of the seventh, and the fast of the tenth will become times of joy, gladness, and cheerful festivals for the house of Judah. Therefore, love truth and peace.”
so you must go and read from the scroll—which you wrote at my dictation—the words of the Lord in the hearing of the people at the temple of the Lord on a day of fasting. You must also read them in the hearing of all the Judeans who are coming from their cities.
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- Regularly (45 instances)