Gaining Weight

Be not among winebibbers; among riotous eaters of flesh: — read the full passage →

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 →

Whoso keepeth the law is a wise son: but he that is a companion of riotous men 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 profiteth little: but godliness is profitable unto all things, having promise of the life that 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 destruction, whose God is their belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who mind earthly things.)

It is not good to eat much honey: so for men to search their own glory is not glory.

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

(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 →

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.

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

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

But I keep under my body, and bring it into subjection: lest that by any means, when I have preached to others, I myself should be a castaway.

This I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh.

And take heed to yourselves, lest at any time your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting, and drunkenness, and cares of this life, and so that day come upon you unawares.

Remove far from me vanity and lies: give me neither poverty nor riches; feed me with food convenient for me: — read the full passage →

One of themselves, even a prophet of their own, said, The Cretians are alway liars, evil beasts, slow bellies.

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

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

I can do all things through Christ which 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 defile the temple of God, him shall God destroy; for the temple of God is holy, which temple ye are.

When thou sittest to eat with a ruler, consider diligently what 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 that hath no rule over his own spirit is like a city that is broken down, and without walls.

I acknowledged my sin unto thee, and mine iniquity have I not hid. I said, I will confess my transgressions unto the Lord; and thou forgavest the iniquity of my sin. Selah.

And at the end of ten days their countenances appeared fairer and fatter in flesh than all the children which did eat the portion of the king’s meat.

Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning.

So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.

And beside this, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge; — read the full passage →

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

And Jesus said unto them, I am the bread of life: he that cometh to me shall never hunger; and he that believeth on me shall never thirst.

And they tempted God in their heart by asking meat for their lust. — 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 just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

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

But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you. Now if any man have 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 a 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 →

This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come. — read the full passage →

Likewise must the deacons be grave, not doubletongued, not given to much wine, not greedy of filthy lucre;

I know both how to be abased, and I know how to abound: every where and in all things I am instructed both to be full and to be hungry, both to abound and to suffer need.

Who shall change our vile body, that it may be fashioned like unto his glorious body, according to the working whereby he is able even to subdue all things unto himself.

For our conversation is in heaven; from whence also we look for the Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ: — read the full passage →

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

For the kingdom of God is not meat and drink; but righteousness, and peace, and joy in the Holy Ghost.

For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;

Labour not for the meat which perisheth, but for that meat which endureth unto everlasting life, which the Son of man shall give unto you: for him hath God the Father 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 portion of the king’s meat, 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 them a daily provision of the king’s meat, and of the wine which he drank: so nourishing them three years, that at the end thereof they might stand before the king. — read the full passage →

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.

They are waxen fat, they shine: yea, they overpass the deeds of the wicked: they judge not the cause, the cause of the fatherless, yet they 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 dainty meats: — 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.

The wrath of God came upon them, and slew the fattest of them, and smote down the chosen men of Israel.

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

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