Gaining Weight

Be not among winebibbers, Among gluttonous eaters of flesh: — read the full passage →

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

Whoso keepeth the law is a wise son; But he that is a companion of gluttons shameth his father.

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

And put a knife to thy throat, If thou be a man given to appetite.

for bodily exercise is profitable for a little; but godliness is profitable for all things, having promise of the life which now is, and of that which is to come.

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.

whose end is perdition, whose god is the belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who mind earthly things.

It is not good to eat much honey; Sofor mento search out their own glory is grievous.

Behold, this was the iniquity of thy sister Sodom: pride, fulness of bread, and prosperous ease was in her and in her daughters; neither did she strengthen the hand of the poor and needy.

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

But Jeshurun waxed fat, and kicked: Thou art waxed fat, thou art grown thick, thou art become sleek; Then he forsook God who made him, And lightly esteemed the Rock of his salvation.

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

Happy art thou, O land, when thy king is the son of nobles, and thy princes eat in due season, for strength, and not for drunkenness!

But Jehovah said unto Samuel, Look not on his countenance, or on the height of his stature; because I have rejected him: for Jehovah seeth not as man seeth; for man looketh on the outward appearance, but Jehovah looketh on the heart.

but I buffet my body, and bring it into bondage: lest by any means, after that I have preached to others, I myself should be rejected.

But I say, Walk by the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh.

But take heed to yourselves, lest haply your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting, and drunkenness, and cares of this life, and that day come on you suddenly as a snare:

Remove far from me falsehood and lies; Give me neither poverty nor riches; Feed me with the food that is needful for me: — read the full passage →

One of themselves, a prophet of their own, said, Cretans are always liars, evil beasts, idle gluttons.

There hath no temptation taken you but such as man can bear: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation make also the way of escape, that ye may be able to endure it.

He that is of a greedy spirit stirreth up strife; But he that putteth his trust in Jehovah shall be made fat.

I can do all things in him that strengtheneth me.

Prove thy servants, I beseech thee, ten days; and let them give us pulse to eat, and water to drink. — read the full passage →

If any man destroyeth the temple of God, him shall God destroy; for the temple of God is holy, and such are ye.

When thou sittest to eat with a ruler, Consider diligently him that is before thee; — read the full passage →

The righteous eateth to the satisfying of his soul; But the belly of the wicked shall want.

He whose spirit is without restraint Islikea city that is broken down and without walls.

I acknowledged my sin unto thee, And mine iniquity did I not hide: I said, I will confess my transgressions unto Jehovah; And thou forgavest the iniquity of my sin. [Selah

And at the end of ten days their countenances appeared fairer, and they were fatter in flesh, than all the youths that did eat of the king’s dainties.

Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom can be no variation, neither shadow that is cast by turning.

So belief cometh of hearing, and hearing by the word of Christ.

Yea, and for this very cause adding on your part all diligence, in your faith supply virtue; and in your virtue knowledge; — read the full passage →

Whether therefore ye eat, or drink, or whatsoever ye do, do all to the glory of God.

Jesus said unto them, I am the bread of life: he that cometh to me shall not hunger, and he that believeth on me shall never thirst.

And they tempted God in their heart By asking food according to their desire. — read the full passage →

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

If we confess our sins, he is faithful and righteous to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

For the wages of sin is death; but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

But ye are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you. But if any man hath not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his.

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

Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, And light unto my path.

And it came to pass at the end of two full years, that Pharaoh dreamed: and, behold, he stood by the river. — read the full passage →

But know this, that in the last days grievous times shall come. — read the full passage →

Deacons in like manner must be grave, not double-tongued, not given to much wine, not greedy of filthy lucre;

I know how to be abased, and I know also how to abound: in everything and in all things have I learned the secret both to be filled and to be hungry, both to abound and to be in want.

who shall fashion anew the body of our humiliation, that it may be conformed to the body of his glory, according to the working whereby he is able even to subject all things unto himself.

For our citizenship is in heaven; whence also we wait for a Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ: — read the full passage →

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

for the kingdom of God is not eating and drinking, but righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit.

for all have sinned, and fall short of the glory of God;

Work not for the food which perisheth, but for the food which abideth unto eternal life, which the Son of man shall give unto you: for him the Father, even God, hath sealed.

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.

Prove thy servants, I beseech thee, ten days; and let them give us pulse to eat, and water to drink. — read the full passage →

But Daniel purposed in his heart that he would not defile himself with the king’s dainties, nor with the wine which he drank: therefore he requested of the prince of the eunuchs that he might not defile himself. — read the full passage →

And the king appointed for them a daily portion of the king’s dainties, and of the wine which he drank, and that they should be nourished three years; that at the end thereof they should stand before the king. — read the full passage →

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

They are waxed fat, they shine: yea, they overpass in deeds of wickedness; they plead not the cause, the cause of the fatherless, that they may prosper; and the right of the needy do they not judge.

Woe to thee, O land, when thy king is a child, and thy princes eat in the morning! — read the full passage →

Eat thou not the bread of him that hath an evil eye, Neither desire thou his dainties: — read the full passage →

The liberal soul shall be made fat; And he that watereth shall be watered also himself.

Come, let us take our fill of love until the morning; Let us solace ourselves with loves.

When the anger of God went up against them, And slew of the fattest of them, And smote down the young men of Israel.

Wherefore kick ye at my sacrifice and at mine offering, which I have commanded in my habitation, and honorest thy sons above me, to make yourselves fat with the chiefest of all the offerings of Israel my people?

And they gathered it morning by morning, every man according to his eating: and when the sun waxed hot, it melted.