Gluttony

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

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

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

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

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

For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty; And drowsiness will clothea manwith rags.

And they tempted God in their heart By asking food according to their desire.

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

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 →

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.

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 →

But put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make not provision for the flesh, to fulfil the lusts thereof.

All things are lawful for me; but not all things are expedient. All things are lawful for me; but I will not be brought under the power of any.

Be not among winebibbers, Among gluttonous eaters of flesh:

But I say, Walk by the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh. — read the full passage →

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

The Son of man came eating and drinking, and they say, Behold, a gluttonous man and a winebibber, a friend of publicans and sinners! And wisdom is justified by her works.

Be subject therefore unto God; but resist the devil, and he will flee from you.

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;

I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service.

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!

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

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!

For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh and the lust of the eyes and the vainglory of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world.

Put to death therefore your members which are upon the earth: fornication, uncleanness, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry;

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:

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, — 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.

For God gave us not a spirit of fearfulness; but of power and love and discipline.

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.

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

Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these: fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, — read the full passage →

that lie upon beds of ivory, and stretch themselves upon their couches, and eat the lambs out of the flock, and the calves out of the midst of the stall; — 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. — read the full passage →

Be sober, be watchful: your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour:

Therefore I say unto you, Be not anxious for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life more than the food, and the body than the raiment? — read the full passage →

If after the manner of men I fought with beasts at Ephesus, what doth it profit me? If the dead are not raised, let us eat and drink, for to-morrow we die.

And they rose up early on the morrow, and offered burnt-offerings, and brought peace-offerings; and the people sat down to eat and to drink, and rose up to play.

and, behold, joy and gladness, slaying oxen and killing sheep, eating flesh and drinking wine: Let us eat and drink, for to-morrow we shall die.

Hear thou, my son, and be wise, And guide thy heart in the way. — read the full passage →

But if that servant shall say in his heart, My lord delayeth his coming; and shall begin to beat the menservants and the maidservants, and to eat and drink, and to be drunken;

but each man is tempted, when he is drawn away by his own lust, and enticed.

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.

For the life is more than the food, and the body than the raiment.

Belshazzar the king made a great feast to a thousand of his lords, and drank wine before the thousand.

Having therefore these promises, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all defilement of flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.

Blessed are they that hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled.

lest there be any fornicator, or profane person, as Esau, who for one mess of meat sold his own birthright. — read the full passage →

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. — read the full passage →

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

Jesus saith unto them, My meat is to do the will of him that sent me, and to accomplish his work.

and Esau said to Jacob, Feed me, I pray thee, with that same red pottage; for I am faint: therefore was his name called Edom. — read the full passage →

And the mixed multitude that was among them lusted exceedingly: and the children of Israel also wept again, and said, Who shall give us flesh to eat?

Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap. — read the full passage →

And he hath said unto me, My grace is sufficient for thee: for my power is made perfect in weakness. Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my weaknesses, that the power of Christ may rest upon me.

If thou turn away thy foot from the sabbath, from doing thy pleasure on my holy day; and call the sabbath a delight, and the holy of Jehovah honorable; and shalt honor it, not doing thine own ways, nor finding thine own pleasure, nor speaking thine own words: — read the full passage →

Now the sons of Eli were base men; they knew not Jehovah. — read the full passage →

Let your forbearance be known unto all men. The Lord is at hand.

The meek shall eat and be satisfied; They shall praise Jehovah that seek after him: Let your heart live for ever.

ye also, as living stones, are built up a spiritual house, to be a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.

but like as he who called you is holy, be ye yourselves also holy in all manner of living;

For the time past may suffice to have wrought the desire of the Gentiles, and to have walked in lasciviousness, lusts, winebibbings, revellings, carousings, and abominable idolatries:

For whosoever shall keep the whole law, and yet stumble in one point, he is become guilty of all.

And when he had brought him down, behold, they were spread abroad over all the ground, eating and drinking, and dancing, because of all the great spoil that they had taken out of the land of the Philistines, and out of the land of Judah.

Yet went they on still to sin against him, To rebel against the Most High in the desert. — read the full passage →

For from within, out of the heart of men, evil thoughts proceed, fornications, thefts, murders, adulteries, — read the full passage →

And he took bread, and when he had given thanks, he brake it, and gave to them, saying, This is my body which is given for you: this do in remembrance of me.

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

And be not fashioned according to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is the good and acceptable and perfect will of God.

But ye are an elect race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession, that ye may show forth the excellencies of him who called you out of darkness into his marvellous light:

whose end is perdition, whose god is the belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who mind earthly things. — read the full passage →

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

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.

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

If a man beget a hundred children, and live many years, so that the days of his years are many, but his soul be not filled with good, and moreover he have no burial; I say, that an untimely birth is better than he: — read the full passage →

If then ye were raised together with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated on the right hand of God. — read the full passage →

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

But in giving you this charge, I praise you not, that ye come together not for the better but for the worse. — read the full passage →

Behold, ye trust in lying words, that cannot profit. — read the full passage →

And the people rose up all that day, and all the night, and all the next day, and gathered the quails: he that gathered least gathered ten homers: and they spread them all abroad for themselves round about the camp. — read the full passage →

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

For if we sin wilfully after that we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remaineth no more a sacrifice for sins, — read the full passage →

Or know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with men, — 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 even when we were with you, this we commanded you, If any will not work, neither let him eat.

So then each one of us shall give account of himself to God. — read the full passage →

The righteousness of the upright shall deliver them; But the treacherous shall be taken in their own iniquity. — read the full passage →

For the backsliding of the simple shall slay them, And the careless ease of fools shall destroy them.

But thou, when thou fastest, anoint thy head, and wash thy face; — read the full passage →

Iron sharpeneth iron; So a man sharpeneth the countenance of his friend. — read the full passage →

Whoso despiseth the word bringeth destruction on himself; But he that feareth the commandment shall be rewarded. — read the full passage →

And we exhort you, brethren, admonish the disorderly, encourage the fainthearted, support the weak, be longsuffering toward all. — read the full passage →

What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound? — 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. — read the full passage →

For three things the earth doth tremble, And for four, whichit cannot bear: — read the full passage →

When the scoffer is punished, the simple is made wise; And when the wise is instructed, he receiveth knowledge. — read the full passage →

Beware of the scribes, who desire to walk in long robes, and love salutations in the marketplaces, and chief seats in the synagogues, and chief places at feasts; — read the full passage →

And the word of Jehovah came to me, saying, — read the full passage →

Agoodname is rather to be chosen than great riches, And loving favor rather than silver and gold. — read the full passage →

There are six things which Jehovah hateth; Yea, seven which are an abomination unto him: — read the full passage →