9 Bible Verses about Fasting Regularly

and she was a widow eighty-four years, who departed not from the temple, serving night and day with fastings and prayers.

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

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

I fast two meals every sabbath; I give tithes of all that I possess.

Now when much time was spent, and when sailing was now dangerous, because the fast was now already past, Paul admonished them,

and to speak unto the priests which were in the house of the LORD of the hosts and to the prophets, saying, Should we weep in the fifth month? Should we do abstinence as we have done these so many years?

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

Thus hath the LORD of the hosts said, 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 the truth and peace.

therefore go thou, and read from the roll, which thou hast written from my mouth, the words of the LORD in the ears of the people in the LORD's house upon the day of fasting: and also in the ears of all Judah that come out of their cities. Thou shalt read them