Being Fat

If anyone destroys the temple of God, God will destroy him; for God’s temple is holy, which you are.

For many walk, of whom I told you often, and now tell you even weeping, as the enemies of the cross of Christ, — read the full passage →

Therefore I urge you, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service. — read the full passage →

Beloved, I pray that you may prosper in all things and be healthy, even as your soul prospers.

The Son of Man has come eating and drinking, and you say, ‘Behold, a gluttonous man, and a drunkard; a friend of tax collectors and sinners!’

Be no longer a drinker of water only, but use a little wine for your stomach’s sake and your frequent infirmities.

The thief only comes to steal, kill, and destroy. I came that they may have life, and may have it abundantly.

“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you clean the outside of the cup and of the platter, but within they are full of extortion and unrighteousness.

Don’t be drunken with wine, in which is dissipation, but be filled with the Spirit, — read the full passage →

Don’t you know that you are a temple of God, and that God’s Spirit lives in you? — read the full passage →

“Don’t judge, so that you won’t be judged. — read the full passage →

For he will be great in the sight of the Lord, and he will drink no wine nor strong drink. He will be filled with the Holy Spirit, even from his mother’s womb.

Don’t you know that those who run in a race all run, but one receives the prize? Run like that, that you may win. — read the full passage →

For bodily exercise has some value, but godliness has value in all things, having the promise of the life which is now, and of that which is to come.

casting all your worries on him, because he cares for you.

For we have spent enough of our past time doing the desire of the Gentiles, and having walked in lewdness, lusts, drunken binges, orgies, carousings, and abominable idolatries. — read the full passage →

Beloved, I beg you as foreigners and pilgrims, to abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;

that each one of you know how to possess himself of his own vessel in sanctification and honor, — read the full passage →

Immediately Jesus made the disciples get into the boat, and to go ahead of him to the other side, while he sent the multitudes away. — read the full passage →

having been buried with him in baptism, in which you were also raised with him through faith in the working of God, who raised him from the dead. — read the full passage →

For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared before that we would walk in them.

Or don’t you know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit which is in you, which you have from God? You are not your own, — read the full passage →

Most certainly I tell you, he who believes in me, the works that I do, he will do also; and he will do greater works than these, because I am going to my Father. — read the full passage →

“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you tithe mint, dill, and cumin, and have left undone the weightier matters of the law: justice, mercy, and faith. But you ought to have done these, and not to have left the other undone. — read the full passage →

But he answered, “It is written, ‘Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds out of the mouth of God.’”

Seeing you have purified your souls in your obedience to the truth through the Spirit in sincere brotherly affection, love one another from the heart fervently:

Can a fig tree, my brothers, yield olives, or a vine figs? Thus no spring yields both salt water and fresh water. — read the full passage →

Therefore let us also, seeing we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, lay aside every weight and the sin which so easily entangles us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us, — read the full passage →

But sexual immorality, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not even be mentioned among you, as becomes saints;

I am the vine. You are the branches. He who remains in me, and I in him, the same bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing.

“Beware of the scribes, who like to walk in long robes, and love greetings in the marketplaces, the best seats in the synagogues, and the best places at feasts; — read the full passage →

Now faith is assurance of things hoped for, proof of things not seen. — read the full passage →

Neither be idolaters, as some of them were. As it is written, “The people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to play.” — read the full passage →

Woe to you, you who are full now, for you will be hungry. Woe to you who laugh now, for you will mourn and weep.

He answered them, “He who has two coats, let him give to him who has none. He who has food, let him do likewise.” — read the full passage →

“To the angel of the assembly in Ephesus write: “He who holds the seven stars in his right hand, he who walks among the seven golden lamp stands says these things: — read the full passage →

Finally, brothers, whatever things are true, whatever things are honorable, whatever things are just, whatever things are pure, whatever things are lovely, whatever things are of good report; if there is any virtue, and if there is any praise, think about these things.

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faith, — read the full passage →