9 Bible Verses about Fasting Regularly

And she had been a widow about four score and four years of age, which went never out of the temple, but served God there with fasting and prayer night and day.

For John came, neither eating nor drinking, and they say, he hath the devil.

For John Baptist came unto you neither eating bread, nor drinking wine, and ye say, 'He hath the devil.'

I fast twice in the week. I give tithe of all that I possess.'

When much time was spent and sailing was now jeopardous, because also that we had overlong fasted, Paul put them in remembrance,

and that they should say unto the priests which were in the house of the LORD of Hosts, and to the prophets, "Should I weep in the fifth month, and abstain, as I have done now certain years?"

"Speak unto all the people of the land, and to the priests, and say, 'When ye fasted and mourned in the fifth and seventh month, now this seventy years, did ye fast unto me?

"Thus sayeth the LORD of Hosts: The fast of the fourth month, the fast of the fifth, the fast of the seventh, and the fast of the tenth, shall be joy and gladness, and prosperous high feasts unto the house of Judah: Only, love the truth and peace.

therefore go thou thither, and read the book, that thou hast written at my mouth: Namely, the words of the LORD, and read them in the LORD's house upon the fasting day: that the people, whole Judah, and all they that come out of the cities, may hear.