5 Bible Verses about Fasting Regularly

She was very old; from girlhood she had lived seven years with a husband, and now had been a widow eighty years. She never left the temple, but continued to worship all day and all night with fastings and prayers.

For John came neither eating nor drinking with others, and yet they said, 'He has a demon.'

"For John the Baptist came eating no bread and drinking no wine, and yet you say, 'He has a demon!'

I fast two days in the week. I pay a tithe on everything I get.'

After considerable time had gone by, and navigation had become dangerous, and the fast was now over, Paul began to warn them