Gluttony

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.

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

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

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

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

For the quaffer and glutton become poor, And drowsiness clotheth with rags.

And they try God in their heart, To ask food for their lust.

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

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 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;

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 →

but put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and for the flesh take no forethought--for desires.

All things are lawful to me, but all things are not profitable; all things are lawful to me, but I--I will not be under authority by any;

Be not thou among quaffers of wine, Among gluttonous ones of flesh,

And I say: In the Spirit walk ye, and the desire of the flesh ye may not complete; — read the full passage →

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

the Son of Man came eating and drinking, and they say, Lo, a man, a glutton, and a wine-drinker, a friend of tax-gatherers and sinners, and wisdom was justified of her children.'

be subject, then, to God; stand up against the devil, and he will flee from you;

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,

I call upon you, therefore, brethren, through the compassions of God, to present your bodies a sacrifice--living, sanctified, acceptable to God--your intelligent service;

the Son of Man came eating and drinking, and ye say, Lo, a man, a glutton, and a wine drinker, a friend of tax-gatherers and sinners;

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

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.

because all that <FI>is<Fi> in the world--the desire of the flesh, and the desire of the eyes, and the ostentation of the life--is not of the Father, but of the world,

Put to death, then, your members that <FI>are<Fi> upon the earth--whoredom, uncleanness, passion, evil desire, and the covetousness, which is idolatry--

`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,

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

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.'

for God did not give us a spirit of fear, but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind;

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.

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

And manifest also are the works of the flesh, which are: Adultery, whoredom, uncleanness, lasciviousness, — read the full passage →

Who are lying down on beds of ivory, And are spread out on their couches, And are eating lambs from the flock, And calves from the midst of the stall, — read the full passage →

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; — read the full passage →

Be sober, vigilant, because your opponent the devil, as a roaring lion, doth walk about, seeking whom he may swallow up,

`Because of this I say to you, be not anxious for your life, what ye may eat, and what ye may drink, nor for your body, what ye may put on. Is not the life more than the nourishment, and the body than the clothing? — read the full passage →

if after the manner of a man with wild beasts I fought in Ephesus, what the advantage to me if the dead do not rise? let us eat and drink, for to-morrow we die!

and they rise early on the morrow, and cause burnt-offerings to ascend, and bring nigh peace-offerings; and the people sit down to eat and to drink, and rise up to play.

And lo, joy and gladness, slaying of oxen, And slaughtering of sheep, Eating of flesh, and drinking of wine, Eat and drink, for to-morrow we die.

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

`And if that servant may say in his heart, My lord doth delay to come, and may begin to beat the men-servants and the maid-servants, to eat also, and to drink, and to be drunken;

and each one is tempted, by his own desires being led away and enticed,

Neither become ye idolaters, as certain of them, as it hath been written, `The people sat down to eat and to drink, and stood up to play;'

the life is more than the nourishment, and the body than the clothing.

Belshazzar the king hath made a great feast to a thousand of his great men, and before the thousand he is drinking wine;

Having, then, these promises, beloved, may we cleanse ourselves from every pollution of flesh and spirit, perfecting sanctification in the fear of God;

`Happy those hungering and thirsting for righteousness--because they shall be filled.

lest any one be a fornicator, or a profane person, as Esau, who in exchange for one morsel of food did sell his birthright, — read the full passage →

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. — read the full passage →

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

Jesus saith to them, `My food is, that I may do the will of Him who sent me, and may finish His work;

and Esau saith unto Jacob, `Let me eat, I pray thee, some of this red red thing, for I <FI>am<Fi> weary;' therefore hath <FI>one<Fi> called his name Edom <FI>Red<Fi> ; — read the full passage →

And the rabble who <FI>are<Fi> in its midst have lusted greatly, and the sons of Israel also turn back and weep, and say, `Who doth give us flesh?

Be not led astray; God is not mocked; for what a man may sow--that also he shall reap, — read the full passage →

and He said to me, `Sufficient for thee is My grace, for My power in infirmity is perfected;' most gladly, therefore, will I rather boast in my infirmities, that the power of the Christ may rest on me:

If thou dost turn from the sabbath thy foot, Doing thine own pleasure on My holy day, And hast cried to the sabbath, `A delight,' To the holy of Jehovah, `Honoured,' And hast honoured it, without doing thine own ways, Without finding thine own pleasure, And speaking a word. — read the full passage →

and the sons of Eli <FI>are<Fi> sons of worthlessness, they have not known Jehovah. — read the full passage →

let your forbearance be known to all men; the Lord <FI>is<Fi> near;

The humble do eat and are satisfied, Praise Jehovah do those seeking Him, Your heart doth live for ever.

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

but according as He who did call you <FI>is<Fi> holy, ye also, become holy in all behaviour,

for sufficient to us <FI>is<Fi> the past time of life the will of the nations to have wrought, having walked in lasciviousnesses, desires, excesses of wines, revellings, drinking-bouts, and unlawful idolatries,

for whoever the whole law shall keep, and shall stumble in one <FI>point<Fi> , he hath become guilty of all;

And he bringeth him down, and lo, they are spread out over the face of all the earth, eating, and drinking, and feasting, with all the great spoil which they have taken out of the land of the Philistines, and out of the land of Judah.

And they add still to sin against Him, To provoke the Most High in the dry place. — read the full passage →

for from within, out of the heart of men, the evil reasonings do come forth, adulteries, whoredoms, murders, — read the full passage →

And having taken bread, having given thanks, he brake and gave to them, saying, `This is my body, that for you is being given, this do ye--to remembrance of me.'

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

and be not conformed to this age, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, for your proving what <FI>is<Fi> the will of God--the good, and acceptable, and perfect.

and ye <FI>are<Fi> a choice race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people acquired, that the excellences ye may shew forth of Him who out of darkness did call you to His wondrous light;

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. — read the full passage →

And it cometh to pass, in the fourth year of Darius the king hath a word of Jehovah been unto Zechariah, in the fourth of the ninth month, in Chisleu. — read the full passage →

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;

`Woe to you, Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because ye make clean the outside of the cup and the plate, and within they are full of rapine and incontinence.

If a man doth beget a hundred, and live many years, and is great, because they are the days of his years, and his soul is not satisfied from the goodness, and also he hath not had a grave, I have said, `Better than he <FI>is<Fi> the untimely birth.' — read the full passage →

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

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

And this declaring, I give no praise, because not for the better, but for the worse ye come together; — read the full passage →

Lo, ye are trusting for yourselves On the words of falsehood, so as not to profit. — read the full passage →

And the people rise all that day, and all the night, and all the day after, and gather the quails--he who hath least hath gathered ten homers--and they spread them out for themselves round about the camp. — read the full passage →

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

For we--wilfully sinning after the receiving the full knowledge of the truth--no more for sins doth there remain a sacrifice, — read the full passage →

have ye not known that the unrighteous the reign of God shall not inherit? be not led astray; neither whoremongers, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor sodomites, — read the full passage →

Ho, every thirsty one, come ye to the waters, And he who hath no money, Come ye, buy and eat, yea, come, buy Without money and without price, wine and milk. — read the full passage →

for even when we were with you, this we did command you, that if any one is not willing to work, neither let him eat,

so, then, each of us concerning himself shall give reckoning to God; — read the full passage →

The righteousness of the upright delivereth them, And in mischief the treacherous are captured. — read the full passage →

For the turning of the simple slayeth them, And the security of the foolish destroyeth them.

`But thou, fasting, anoint thy head, and wash thy face, — read the full passage →

Iron by iron is sharpened, And a man sharpens the face of his friend. — read the full passage →

Whoso is despising the Word is destroyed for it, And whoso is fearing the Command is repayed. — read the full passage →

and we exhort you, brethren, admonish the disorderly, comfort the feeble-minded, support the infirm, be patient unto all; — read the full passage →

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

For three things hath earth been troubled, And for four--it is not able to bear: — read the full passage →

When the scorner is punished, the simple becometh wise, And in giving understanding to the wise He receiveth knowledge. — read the full passage →

`Take heed of the scribes, who are wishing to walk in long robes, and are loving salutations in the markets, and first seats in the synagogues, and first couches in the suppers, — read the full passage →

And there is a word of Jehovah unto me, saying, — read the full passage →

A name is chosen rather than much wealth, Than silver and than gold--good grace. — read the full passage →

These six hath Jehovah hated, Yea, seven <FI>are<Fi> abominations to His soul. — read the full passage →