Gluttony

whose end is destruction, whose god is the belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who think about earthly things.

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

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

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

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

for the drunkard and the glutton shall become poor; and drowsiness clothes them in rags.

They tempted God in their heart by asking food according to their desire.

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

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 →

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.”

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 →

But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh, for its lusts.

“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 anything.

Don’t be among ones drinking too much wine, or those who gorge themselves on meat:

But I say, walk by the Spirit, and you won’t fulfill the lust of the flesh. — read the full passage →

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

The Son of Man came eating and drinking, and they say, ‘Behold, a gluttonous man and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners!’ But wisdom is justified by her children.”

Be subject therefore to God. But resist the devil, and he will flee from you.

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,

Therefore I urge you, brothers, 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 has come eating and drinking, and you say, ‘Behold, a gluttonous man, and a drunkard; a friend of tax collectors and sinners!’

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

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!

For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, isn’t the Father’s, but is the world’s.

Put to death therefore your members which are on the earth: sexual immorality, uncleanness, depraved passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry;

“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.

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

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.’”

For God didn’t give us a spirit of fear, but of power, love, and self-control.

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.

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

Now the works of the flesh are obvious, which are: adultery, sexual immorality, uncleanness, lustfulness, — read the full passage →

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

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.” — read the full passage →

Be sober and self-controlled. Be watchful. Your adversary, the devil, walks around like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour.

Therefore I tell you, don’t be anxious for your life: what you will eat, or what you will drink; nor yet for your body, what you will wear. Isn’t life more than food, and the body more than clothing? — read the full passage →

If I fought with animals at Ephesus for human purposes, what does it profit me? If the dead are not raised, then “let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die.”

They rose up early on the next day, 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, killing cattle and killing sheep, eating flesh and drinking wine: “Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we will die.”

Listen, my son, and be wise, and keep your heart on the right path! — read the full passage →

But if that servant says in his heart, ‘My lord delays his coming,’ and begins to beat the menservants and the maidservants, and to eat and drink, and to be drunken,

But each one is tempted, when he is drawn away by his own lust, and enticed.

Neither be idolaters, as some of them were. As it is written, “The people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to play.”

Life is more than food, and the body is more than clothing.

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 those who hunger and thirst after righteousness, for they shall be filled.

lest there be any sexually immoral person, or profane person, like Esau, who sold his birthright for one meal. — read the full passage →

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. — read the full passage →

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

Jesus said to them, “My food is to do the will of him who sent me, and to accomplish his work.

Esau said to Jacob, “Please feed me with that same red stew, for I am famished.” Therefore his name was called Edom. — read the full passage →

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

Don’t be deceived. God is not mocked, for whatever a man sows, that he will also reap. — read the full passage →

He has said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Most gladly therefore I will rather glory in my weaknesses, that the power of Christ may rest on me.

“If you turn away your foot from the Sabbath, from doing your pleasure on my holy day; and call the Sabbath a delight, and the holy of Yahweh honorable; and shall honor it, not doing your own ways, nor finding your own pleasure, nor speaking your own words: — read the full passage →

Now the sons of Eli were base men; they didn’t know Yahweh. — read the full passage →

Let your gentleness be known to all men. The Lord is at hand.

The humble shall eat and be satisfied. They shall praise Yahweh who seek after him. Let your hearts live forever.

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

but just as he who called you is holy, you yourselves also be holy in all of your behavior;

For we have spent enough of our past time doing the desire of the Gentiles, and having walked in lewdness, lusts, drunken binges, orgies, carousings, and abominable idolatries.

For whoever keeps the whole law, and yet stumbles in one point, he has become guilty of all.

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

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

For from within, out of the hearts of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, sexual sins, murders, thefts, — read the full passage →

He took bread, and when he had given thanks, he broke it, and gave to them, saying, “This is my body which is given for you. Do this in memory of me.”

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

Don’t be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what is the good, well-pleasing, and perfect will of God.

But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession, that you may proclaim the excellence of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light:

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

In the fourth year of king Darius, Yahweh’s word came to Zechariah in the fourth day of the ninth month, the month of Chislev. — read the full passage →

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.

“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you clean the outside of the cup and of the platter, but within they are full of extortion and unrighteousness.

If a man fathers a hundred children, and lives many years, so that the days of his years are many, but his soul is not filled with good, and moreover he has no burial; I say, that a stillborn child is better than he: — read the full passage →

If then you 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 will come. — read the full passage →

But in giving you this command, I don’t praise you, that you come together not for the better but for the worse. — read the full passage →

Behold, you trust in lying words, that can’t profit. — read the full passage →

The people rose up all that day, and all the night, and all the next day, and gathered the quails. He who gathered least gathered ten homers; and they spread them all abroad for themselves around the camp. — read the full passage →

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

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

Or don’t you know that the unrighteous will not inherit the Kingdom of God? Don’t be deceived. Neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor male prostitutes, nor homosexuals, — read the full passage →

“Come, everyone who thirsts, to the waters! Come, he who has no money, buy, and eat! Yes, come, buy wine and milk without money and without price. — read the full passage →

For even when we were with you, we commanded you this: “If anyone will not work, neither let him eat.”

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

The righteousness of the upright shall deliver them, but the unfaithful will be trapped by evil desires. — read the full passage →

For the backsliding of the simple will kill them. The careless ease of fools will destroy them.

But you, when you fast, anoint your head, and wash your face; — read the full passage →

Iron sharpens iron; so a man sharpens his friend’s countenance. — read the full passage →

Whoever despises instruction will pay for it, but he who respects a command will be rewarded. — read the full passage →

We exhort you, brothers, admonish the disorderly, encourage the faint-hearted, support the weak, be patient 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 tremble, and under four, it can’t bear up: — read the full passage →

When the mocker is punished, the simple gains wisdom. When the wise is instructed, he receives knowledge. — read the full passage →

“Beware of the scribes, who like to walk in long robes, and love greetings in the marketplaces, the best seats in the synagogues, and the best places at feasts; — read the full passage →

Yahweh’s word came to me, saying, — read the full passage →

A good name is more desirable than great riches, and loving favor is better than silver and gold. — read the full passage →

There are six things which Yahweh hates; yes, seven which are an abomination to him: — read the full passage →