Being Fat

Better is the sight of the eyes than the wandering of the desire: this is also vanity and vexation of spirit.

If any man defile the temple of God, him shall God destroy; for the temple of God is holy, which temple ye are.

(For many walk, of whom I have told you often, and now tell you even weeping, that they are the enemies of the cross of Christ: — read the full passage →

I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service. — read the full passage →

Prove thy servants, I beseech thee, ten days; and let them give us pulse to eat, and water to drink.

And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat.

Beloved, I wish above all things that thou mayest prosper and be in health, even as thy soul prospereth.

It shall be a perpetual statute for your generations throughout all your dwellings, that ye eat neither fat nor blood.

But Jeshurun waxed fat, and kicked: thou art waxen fat, thou art grown thick, thou art covered with fatness; then he forsook God which made him, and lightly esteemed the Rock of his salvation.

Ho, every one that thirsteth, come ye to the waters, and he that hath no money; come ye, buy, and eat; yea, come, buy wine and milk without money and without price. — read the full passage →

The Son of man is come eating and drinking; and ye say, Behold a gluttonous man, and a winebibber, a friend of publicans and sinners!

Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, Ye shall eat no manner of fat, of ox, or of sheep, or of goat.

Because he covereth his face with his fatness, and maketh collops of fat on his flanks.

Ye are the children of the Lord your God: ye shall not cut yourselves, nor make any baldness between your eyes for the dead. — read the full passage →

Drink no longer water, but use a little wine for thy stomach’s sake and thine often infirmities.

The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly.

Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye make clean the outside of the cup and of the platter, but within they are full of extortion and excess.

And he brought the present unto Eglon king of Moab: and Eglon was a very fat man.

And be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess; but be filled with the Spirit; — read the full passage →

And Isaac his father answered and said unto him, Behold, thy dwelling shall be the fatness of the earth, and of the dew of heaven from above;

Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you? — read the full passage →

Judge not, that ye be not judged. — read the full passage →

In the first year of Darius the son of Ahasuerus, of the seed of the Medes, which was made king over the realm of the Chaldeans; — read the full passage →

There is treasure to be desired and oil in the dwelling of the wise; but a foolish man spendeth it up.

Their eyes stand out with fatness: they have more than heart could wish.

For he shall be great in the sight of the Lord, and shall drink neither wine nor strong drink; and he shall be filled with the Holy Ghost, even from his mother’s womb.

And take your father and your households, and come unto me: and I will give you the good of the land of Egypt, and ye shall eat the fat of the land.

Know ye not that they which run in a race run all, but one receiveth the prize? So run, that ye may obtain. — read the full passage →

He giveth power to the faint; and to them that have no might he increaseth strength.

For bodily exercise profiteth little: but godliness is profitable unto all things, having promise of the life that now is, and of that which is to come.

Casting all your care upon him; for he careth for you.

For the time past of our life may suffice us to have wrought the will of the Gentiles, when we walked in lasciviousness, lusts, excess of wine, revellings, banquetings, and abominable idolatries: — read the full passage →

Dearly beloved, I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;

That every one of you should know how to possess his vessel in sanctification and honour; — read the full passage →

And straightway Jesus constrained his disciples to get into a ship, and to go before him unto the other side, while he sent the multitudes away. — read the full passage →

In the third year of the reign of Jehoiakim king of Judah came Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon unto Jerusalem, and besieged it. — read the full passage →

The sword of the Lord is filled with blood, it is made fat with fatness, and with the blood of lambs and goats, with the fat of the kidneys of rams: for the Lord hath a sacrifice in Bozrah, and a great slaughter in the land of Idumea.

I will seek that which was lost, and bring again that which was driven away, and will bind up that which was broken, and will strengthen that which was sick: but I will destroy the fat and the strong; I will feed them with judgment.

And the Lord spake unto Moses and to Aaron, saying unto them, — read the full passage →

Buried with him in baptism, wherein also ye are risen with him through the faith of the operation of God, who hath raised him from the dead. — read the full passage →

For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them.

What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own? — read the full passage →

Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater works than these shall he do; because I go unto my Father. — read the full passage →

Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye pay tithe of mint and anise and cummin, and have omitted the weightier matters of the law, judgment, mercy, and faith: these ought ye to have done, and not to leave the other undone. — read the full passage →

But he answered and said, It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God.

And the Lord shall guide thee continually, and satisfy thy soul in drought, and make fat thy bones: and thou shalt be like a watered garden, and like a spring of water, whose waters fail not.

When thou sittest to eat with a ruler, consider diligently what is before thee: — read the full passage →

Moreover all these curses shall come upon thee, and shall pursue thee, and overtake thee, till thou be destroyed; because thou hearkenedst not unto the voice of the Lord thy God, to keep his commandments and his statutes which he commanded thee: — read the full passage →

Seeing ye have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit unto unfeigned love of the brethren, see that ye love one another with a pure heart fervently:

Can the fig tree, my brethren, bear olive berries? either a vine, figs? so can no fountain both yield salt water and fresh. — read the full passage →

Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us, — read the full passage →

But fornication, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not be once named among you, as becometh saints;

And the priest shall burn them upon the altar: it is the food of the offering made by fire for a sweet savour: all the fat is the Lord’s.

I am the vine, ye are the branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing.

Beware of the scribes, which desire to walk in long robes, and love greetings in the markets, and the highest seats in the synagogues, and the chief rooms at feasts; — read the full passage →

He that is of a proud heart stirreth up strife: but he that putteth his trust in the Lord shall be made fat.

Whoso keepeth his mouth and his tongue keepeth his soul from troubles. — read the full passage →

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

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

Woe unto you that are full! for ye shall hunger. Woe unto you that laugh now! for ye shall mourn and weep.

He answereth and saith unto them, He that hath two coats, let him impart to him that hath none; and he that hath meat, let him do likewise. — read the full passage →

And it came to pass in the fourth year of king Darius, that the word of the Lord came unto Zechariah in the fourth day of the ninth month, even in Chisleu; — read the full passage →

I ate no pleasant bread, neither came flesh nor wine in my mouth, neither did I anoint myself at all, till three whole weeks were fulfilled. — read the full passage →

As a cage is full of birds, so are their houses full of deceit: therefore they are become great, and waxen rich. — read the full passage →

Ho, every one that thirsteth, come ye to the waters, and he that hath no money; come ye, buy, and eat; yea, come, buy wine and milk without money and without price. — read the full passage →

For, behold, the Lord, the Lord of hosts, doth take away from Jerusalem and from Judah the stay and the staff, the whole stay of bread, and the whole stay of water, — read the full passage →

Surely the serpent will bite without enchantment; and a babbler is no better. — read the full passage →

Whoso keepeth the law is a wise son: but he that is a companion of riotous men shameth his father.

The full soul loatheth an honeycomb; but to the hungry soul every bitter thing is sweet.

Hast thou found honey? eat so much as is sufficient for thee, lest thou be filled therewith, and vomit it.

He that loveth pleasure shall be a poor man: he that loveth wine and oil shall not be rich.

The light of the righteous rejoiceth: but the lamp of the wicked shall be put out. — read the full passage →

The soul of the sluggard desireth, and hath nothing: but the soul of the diligent shall be made fat.

The liberal soul shall be made fat: and he that watereth shall be watered also himself.

The righteous shall flourish like the palm tree: he shall grow like a cedar in Lebanon. — read the full passage →

For he established a testimony in Jacob, and appointed a law in Israel, which he commanded our fathers, that they should make them known to their children: — read the full passage →

Hear this, all ye people; give ear, all ye inhabitants of the world: — read the full passage →

Fret not thyself because of evildoers, neither be thou envious against the workers of iniquity. — read the full passage →

And Samuel died; and all the Israelites were gathered together, and lamented him, and buried him in his house at Ramah. And David arose, and went down to the wilderness of Paran. — read the full passage →

And the messenger answered and said, Israel is fled before the Philistines, and there hath been also a great slaughter among the people, and thy two sons also, Hophni and Phinehas, are dead, and the ark of God is taken. — read the full passage →

Now these are the nations which the Lord left, to prove Israel by them, even as many of Israel as had not known all the wars of Canaan; — read the full passage →

If one be found slain in the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee to possess it, lying in the field, and it be not known who hath slain him: — read the full passage →

And when ye reap the harvest of your land, thou shalt not make clean riddance of the corners of thy field when thou reapest, neither shalt thou gather any gleaning of thy harvest: thou shalt leave them unto the poor, and to the stranger: I am the Lord your God. — read the full passage →

After these things the word of the Lord came unto Abram in a vision, saying, Fear not, Abram: I am thy shield, and thy exceeding great reward.

Unto the angel of the church of Ephesus write; These things saith he that holdeth the seven stars in his right hand, who walketh in the midst of the seven golden candlesticks; — read the full passage →

Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things.

To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven:

O Lord, thou hast searched me, and known me. — read the full passage →

And they shall say unto the elders of his city, This our son is stubborn and rebellious, he will not obey our voice; he is a glutton, and a drunkard.

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

And Abel, he also brought of the firstlings of his flock and of the fat thereof. And the Lord had respect unto Abel and to his offering: