9 Bible Verses about Fasting Regularly

and herself [as] a widow up to eighty-four years) who did not depart from the temple with fastings and prayers, serving night and day.

For John came neither eating nor drinking, and they say, 'He has a demon!'

For John the Baptist has come not eating bread or drinking wine, and you say, 'He has a demon!'

I fast twice a week; I give a tenth of all that I get.'

And [because] considerable time had passed and the voyage was now dangerous because even the Fast was already over, Paul strongly recommended,

saying to the {priests of the house of Yahweh of hosts} and to the prophets, "Should I mourn in the fifth month and keep myself separate as I have done for these many years?"

"Say to all the people of the land and to the priests: 'When you fasted and lamented in the fifth and seventh months for these seventy years, did you really fast for me?

"Thus says Yahweh of hosts: 'The fast of the fourth [month], the fifth [month], the seventh [month], and the tenth [month] will be for the house of Judah jubilation and joy and merry festivals; therefore love truth and peace.'

So you must go and you shall read aloud from the scroll that you have written from my mouth the words of Yahweh in the hearing of the people [in] the temple of Yahweh on a day of fast, and also you shall read aloud in the hearing of all those of Judah who came from their towns.