Gaining Weight

Don’t be among ones drinking too much wine, or those who gorge themselves on meat: — read the full passage →

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 →

Whoever keeps the law is a wise son; but he who is a companion of gluttons shames his father.

Have you found honey? Eat as much as is sufficient for you, lest you eat too much, and vomit it.

put a knife to your throat, if you are a man given to appetite.

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.

They shall tell 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 the belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who think about earthly things.

It is not good to eat much honey; nor is it honorable to seek one’s own honor.

Behold, this was the iniquity of your sister Sodom: pride, fullness 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, as the enemies of the cross of Christ, — read the full passage →

But Jeshurun grew fat, and kicked. You have grown fat. You have grown thick. You have become sleek. Then he abandoned God who made him, and rejected the Rock of his salvation.

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

Happy are you, land, when your king is the son of nobles, and your princes eat in due season, for strength, and not for drunkenness!

But Yahweh said to Samuel, “Don’t look on his face, or on the height of his stature; because I have rejected him: for I see not as man sees; for man looks at the outward appearance, but Yahweh looks at the heart.”

but I beat my body and bring it into submission, lest by any means, after I have preached to others, I myself should be rejected.

But I say, walk by the Spirit, and you won’t fulfill the lust of the flesh.

“So be careful, or your hearts will be loaded down with carousing, drunkenness, and cares of this life, and that day will come on you suddenly.

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 them, a prophet of their own, said, “Cretans are always liars, evil beasts, and idle gluttons.”

No temptation has taken you except what is common to man. God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted above what you are able, but will with the temptation also make the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it.

One who is greedy stirs up strife; but one who trusts in Yahweh will prosper.

I can do all things through Christ, who strengthens me.

Test your servants, I beg you, ten days; and let them give us vegetables to eat, and water to drink. — read the full passage →

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

When you sit to eat with a ruler, consider diligently what is before you; — read the full passage →

The righteous one eats to the satisfying of his soul, but the belly of the wicked goes hungry.

Like a city that is broken down and without walls is a man whose spirit is without restraint.

I acknowledged my sin to you. I didn’t hide my iniquity. I said, I will confess my transgressions to Yahweh, and you forgave the iniquity of my sin. Selah.

At the end of ten days their faces appeared fairer, and they were fatter in flesh, than all the youths who ate 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, nor turning shadow.

So faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.

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

Whether therefore you eat, or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.

Jesus said to them, “I am the bread of life. He who comes to me will not be hungry, and he who believes in me will never be thirsty.

They tempted God in their heart by asking food according to their desire. — read the full passage →

Their eyes bulge with fat. Their minds pass the limits of conceit.

If we confess our sins, he is faithful and righteous to forgive us the 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 you are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if it is so that the Spirit of God dwells in you. But if any man doesn’t have the Spirit of Christ, he is not his.

The soul of the sluggard desires, and has nothing, but the desire of the diligent shall be fully satisfied.

Your word is a lamp to my feet, and a light for my path.

At the end of two full years, Pharaoh dreamed: and behold, he stood by the river. — read the full passage →

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

Servants, in the same way, must be reverent, not double-tongued, not addicted to much wine, not greedy for money;

I know how to be humbled, and I know also how to abound. In everything and in all things I have learned the secret both to be filled and to be hungry, both to abound and to be in need.

who will change the body of our humiliation to be conformed to the body of his glory, according to the working by which he is able even to subject all things to himself.

For our citizenship is in heaven, from where we also wait for a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ; — read the full passage →

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

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

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

Don’t work for the food which perishes, but for the food which remains to eternal life, which the Son of Man will give to you. For God the Father has sealed him.”

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.’”

Test your servants, I beg you, ten days; and let them give us vegetables 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 →

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 its end 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 have grown fat. They shine; yes, they excel in deeds of wickedness. They don’t plead the cause, the cause of the fatherless, that they may prosper; and they don’t judge the right of the needy.

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

Don’t eat the food of him who has a stingy eye, and don’t crave his delicacies: — read the full passage →

The liberal soul shall be made fat. He who waters shall be watered also himself.

Come, let’s take our fill of loving until the morning. Let’s solace ourselves with loving.

when the anger of God went up against them, killed some of their fattest, and struck down the young men of Israel.

Why do you kick at my sacrifice and at my offering, which I have commanded in my habitation, and honor your sons above me, to make yourselves fat with the best of all the offerings of Israel my people?’

They gathered it morning by morning, everyone according to his eating. When the sun grew hot, it melted.