9 Bible Verses about Fasting Regularly

And she a widow of about eighty-four years, who departed not from the temple, with fastings and supplications serving night and day.

For John came neither eating nor drinking, and they say, He has an evil spirit.

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

I fast twice of the Sabbath; I pay tithes of all I possess.

And a suitable time having intervened, and sailing being already dangerous, for the fast had already passed by, Paul advised,

To speak to the priests which were to the house of Jehovah of armies, and to the prophets, saying, Should I weep in the fifth month, separating myself according as I did, how many the years?

Say to all the people of the land, and to the priests, saying, When ye fasted and mourned in the fifth and in the seventh, and this seventy years, fasting, fasted ye to me, me?

Thus said Jehovah of armies: The fast of the fourth, 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 for joy and for gladness, and for good appointments; and love ye truth and peace.

And go thou and read in the roll which thou wrotest from my mouth, the words of Jehovah in the ears of the people in the house of Jehovah in the day of fasting: and also in the ears of all Judah coming from their cities thou shalt read them.