9 Bible Verses about Fasting Regularly

And she was a widow of eighty-four years, who did not depart from the temple, serving God with fastings and prayers night and day.

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

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

I fast twice on the Sabbath, I give tithes of all that I possess.

And much time having been used up, and the voyage already being dangerous, because the Fast was now already past, Paul warned them,

to speak to the priests who belong to the house of Jehovah of Hosts, and to the prophets, saying, Should I weep in the fifth month, consecrating myself, as I have done these many years?

Speak to all the people of the land, and to the priests, saying, When you fasted and mourned in the fifth and seventh months, even those seventy years, did you truly fast to Me, even to Me?

So says Jehovah of Hosts: 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 for joy and gladness, and cheerful feasts. Therefore love truth and peace.

Therefore you go, and read in the roll which you have written from my mouth, the Words of Jehovah in the ears of the people in Jehovah's house on the fasting day. And also you shall read them in the ears of all Judah who come out of their cities.