Gaining Weight

Be not thou among quaffers of wine, Among gluttonous ones of flesh, — read the full passage →

Have ye not known that your body is a sanctuary of the Holy Spirit in you, which ye have from God? and ye are not your own, — read the full passage →

Whoso is keeping the law is an intelligent son, And a friend of gluttons, Doth cause his father to blush.

Honey thou hast found--eat thy sufficiency, Lest thou be satiated <FI>with<Fi> it, and hast vomited it.

And thou hast put a knife to thy throat, If thou <FI>art<Fi> a man of appetite.

for the bodily exercise is unto little profit, and the piety is to all things profitable, a promise having of the life that now is, and of that which is coming;

and have said unto the elders of his city, Our son--this one--is apostatizing and rebellious; he is not hearkening to our voice--a glutton and drunkard;

whose end <FI>is<Fi> destruction, whose god <FI>is<Fi> the belly, and whose glory <FI>is<Fi> in their shame, who the things on earth are minding.

The eating of much honey is not good, Nor a searching out of one's own honour--honour.

Lo, this hath been the iniquity of Sodom thy sister, Arrogancy, fulness of bread, and quiet ease, Have been to her and to her daughters, And the hand of the afflicted and needy She hath not strengthened.

for many walk of whom many times I told you--and now also weeping tell--the enemies of the cross of the Christ! — read the full passage →

And Jeshurun waxeth fat, and doth kick: Thou hast been fat--thou hast been thick, Thou hast been covered. And he leaveth God who made him, And dishonoureth the Rock of his salvation.

have ye not known that ye are a sanctuary of God, and the Spirit of God doth dwell in you? — read the full passage →

Happy art thou, O land, When thy king <FI>is<Fi> a son of freemen, And thy princes do eat in due season, For might, and not for drunkenness.

And Jehovah saith unto Samuel, `Look not unto his appearance, and unto the height of his stature, for I have rejected him; for <FI>it is<Fi> not as man seeth--for man looketh at the eyes, and Jehovah looketh at the heart.'

but I chastise my body, and bring <FI>it<Fi> into servitude, lest by any means, having preached to others--I myself may become disapproved.

And I say: In the Spirit walk ye, and the desire of the flesh ye may not complete;

`And take heed to yourselves, lest your hearts may be weighed down with surfeiting, and drunkenness, and anxieties of life, and suddenly that day may come on you,

Vanity and a lying word put far from me, Poverty or wealth give not to me, Cause me to eat the bread of my portion, — read the full passage →

A certain one of them, a prophet of their own, said--`Cretans! always liars, evil beasts, lazy bellies!'

No temptation hath taken you--except human; and God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above what ye are able, but He will make, with the temptation, also the outlet, for your being able to bear <FI>it<Fi> .

Whoso is proud in soul stirreth up contention, And whoso is trusting on Jehovah is made fat.

For all things I have strength, in Christ's strengthening me;

`Try, I pray thee, thy servants, ten days; and they give to us of the vegetables, and we eat, and water, and we drink; — read the full passage →

if any one the sanctuary of God doth waste, him shall God waste; for the sanctuary of God is holy, the which ye are.

When thou sittest to eat with a ruler, Thou considerest diligently that which <FI>is<Fi> before thee, — read the full passage →

The righteous is eating to the satiety of his soul, And the belly of the wicked lacketh!

A city broken down without walls, <FI>Is<Fi> a man without restraint over his spirit!

My sin I cause Thee to know, And mine iniquity I have not covered. I have said, `I confess concerning My transgressions to Jehovah,' And Thou--Thou hast taken away, The iniquity of my sin. Selah.

and at the end of ten days their appearance hath appeared better and fatter in flesh then any of the lads who are eating the king's portion of food.

every good giving, and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of the lights, with whom is no variation, or shadow of turning;

so then the faith <FI>is<Fi> by a report, and the report through a saying of God,

And this same also--all diligence having brought in besides, superadd in your faith the worthiness, and in the worthiness the knowledge, — read the full passage →

Whether, then, ye eat, or drink, or do anything, do all to the glory of God;

And Jesus said to them, `I am the bread of the life; he who is coming unto me may not hunger, and he who is believing in me may not thirst--at any time;

And they try God in their heart, To ask food for their lust. — read the full passage →

Their eye hath come out from fat. The imaginations of the heart transgressed;

if we may confess our sins, stedfast He is and righteous that He may forgive us the sins, and may cleanse us from every unrighteousness;

for the wages of the sin <FI>is<Fi> death, and the gift of God <FI>is<Fi> life age-during in Christ Jesus our Lord.

And ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God doth dwell in you; and if any one hath not the Spirit of Christ--this one is not His;

The soul of the slothful is desiring, and hath not. And the soul of the diligent is made fat.

<FI> Nun.<Fi> A lamp to my foot <FI>is<Fi> Thy word, And a light to my path.

And it cometh to pass, at the end of two years of days that Pharaoh is dreaming, and lo, he is standing by the River, — read the full passage →

And this know thou, that in the last days there shall come perilous times, — read the full passage →

Ministrants--in like manner grave, not double-tongued, not given to much wine, not given to filthy lucre,

I have known both to be abased, and I have known to abound; in everything and in all things I have been initiated, both to be full and to be hungry, both to abound and to be in want.

who shall transform the body of our humiliation to its becoming conformed to the body of his glory, according to the working of his power, even to subject to himself the all things.

For our citizenship is in the heavens, whence also a Saviour we await--the Lord Jesus Christ-- — read the full passage →

And the fruit of the Spirit is: Love, joy, peace, long-suffering, kindness, goodness, faith, — read the full passage →

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

for all did sin, and are come short of the glory of God--

work not for the food that is perishing, but for the food that is remaining to life age-during, which the Son of Man will give to you, for him did the Father seal--<FI> even<Fi> God.'

But he answering said, `It hath been written, Not upon bread alone doth man live, but upon every word coming forth from the mouth of God.'

`Try, I pray thee, thy servants, ten days; and they give to us of the vegetables, and we eat, and water, and we drink; — read the full passage →

And Daniel purposeth in his heart that he will not pollute himself with the king's portion of food, and with the wine of his drinking, and he seeketh of the chief of the eunuchs that he may not pollute himself. — read the full passage →

And the king doth appoint for them a rate, day by day, of the king's portion of food, and of the wine of his drinking, so as to nourish them three years, that at the end thereof they may stand before the king. — read the full passage →

The lost I seek, and the driven away bring back, And the broken I bind up, and the sick I strengthen, And the fat and the strong I destroy, I feed it with judgment.

They have been fat, they have shone, Yea, they have overpassed the acts of the evil, Judgment they have not judged, The judgment of the fatherless--and they prosper, And the judgment of the needy they have not judged.

Woe to thee, O land, when thy king <FI>is<Fi> a youth, And thy princes do eat in the morning. — read the full passage →

Eat not the bread of an evil eye, And have no desire to his dainties, — read the full passage →

A liberal soul is made fat, And whoso is watering, he also is watered.

Come, we are filled <FI>with<Fi> loves till the morning, We delight ourselves in loves.

And the anger of God hath gone up against them, And He slayeth among their fat ones, And youths of Israel He caused to bend.

Why do ye kick at My sacrifice, and at Mine offering which I commanded <FI>in<Fi> My habitation, and dost honour thy sons above Me, to make yourselves fat from the first part of every offering of Israel, of My people?

And they gather it morning by morning, each according to his eating; when the sun hath been warm, then it hath melted.