9 Bible Verses about Fasting Regularly

and then as a widow for 84 years. She never left the Temple, but continued to worship there night and day with times of fasting and prayer.

Because John didn't come eating or drinking, yet people say, "He has a demon!'

Because John the Baptist has come neither eating bread nor drinking wine, yet you say, "He has a demon!'

I fast twice a week, and I give a tenth of my entire income.'

Much time had been lost, and because navigation had become dangerous and the day of fasting had already past, Paul began to warn those on the ship,

and to speak to the priests assigned to the Temple of the LORD of the Heavenly Armies along with the prophets, asking, "Am I to go about mourning, denying myself throughout the fifth month, as I have these many years?"

"Talk to everyone in the land, as well as to the priests. Ask them, "When you were fasting and mourning during the fifth and seventh months for the past seventy years, were you really fasting for me?

"This is what the LORD of the Heavenly Armies says: "The fasts that occur in the fourth, fifth, seventh, and tenth months will be joyful and glad times for the house of Judah, replete with cheerful festivals. Therefore, love truth and peace.'"

You go and read the words of the LORD that you wrote at my dictation from the scroll. Read them to the people at the LORD's Temple on the fast day. Also read them to all the people of Judah who are coming from their towns.