Overcoming Gluttony

Know ye not that they which run in a race run all, but one receiveth the prize? So run, that ye may obtain. — read the full passage →

Whose end is destruction, whose God is their belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who mind earthly things.)

For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty: and drowsiness shall clothe a man with rags.

I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me.

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

For the kingdom of God is not meat and drink; but righteousness, and peace, and joy in the Holy Ghost.

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

But he knoweth the way that I take: when he hath tried me, I shall come forth as gold. — read the full passage →

For they that are after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh; but they that are after the Spirit the things of the Spirit. — read the full passage →

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

Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that ye should obey it in the lusts thereof. — read the full passage →

What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own? — read the full passage →

Surely I have behaved and quieted myself, as a child that is weaned of his mother: my soul is even as a weaned child.

Then Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except ye eat the flesh of the Son of man, and drink his blood, ye have no life in you.

I am that bread of life. — read the full passage →

Blessed 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!

Behold, what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of God: therefore the world knoweth us not, because it knew him not. — read the full passage →

Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage. — read the full passage →

If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God. — read the full passage →

What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own?

The elders which are among you I exhort, who am also an elder, and a witness of the sufferings of Christ, and also a partaker of the glory that shall be revealed: — read the full passage →

Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, to the strangers scattered throughout Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia, — read the full passage →

But speak thou the things which become sound doctrine: — read the full passage →

But of the times and the seasons, brethren, ye have no need that I write unto you. — read the full passage →

Then Peter said unto them, Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost. — read the full passage →

Whoso curseth his father or his mother, his lamp shall be put out in obscure darkness. — read the full passage →

O Lord, thou hast searched me, and known me. — read the full passage →

How sweet are thy words unto my taste! yea, sweeter than honey to my mouth!

And unto the angel of the church in Sardis write; These things saith he that hath the seven Spirits of God, and the seven stars; I know thy works, that thou hast a name that thou livest, and art dead. — read the full passage →

Unto the angel of the church of Ephesus write; These things saith he that holdeth the seven stars in his right hand, who walketh in the midst of the seven golden candlesticks; — read the full passage →

Wherefore laying aside all malice, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil speakings, — read the full passage →

For every kind of beasts, and of birds, and of serpents, and of things in the sea, is tamed, and hath been tamed of mankind: — read the full passage →

For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind. — read the full passage →

Despise not prophesyings. — read the full passage →

Having therefore these promises, dearly beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God. — read the full passage →

If any man’s work shall be burned, he shall suffer loss: but he himself shall be saved; yet so as by fire. — read the full passage →

Now when Jesus heard these things, he said unto him, Yet lackest thou one thing: sell all that thou hast, and distribute unto the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in heaven: and come, follow me. — read the full passage →

And he spake a parable unto them to this end, that men ought always to pray, and not to faint; — read the full passage →

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

Behold, I have refined thee, but not with silver; I have chosen thee in the furnace of affliction. — read the full passage →

The full soul loatheth an honeycomb; but to the hungry soul every bitter thing is sweet. — read the full passage →

As the hart panteth after the water brooks, so panteth my soul after thee, O God. — read the full passage →

Give ear to my words, O Lord, consider my meditation. — read the full passage →

Now as touching things offered unto idols, we know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffeth up, but charity edifieth. — read the full passage →

I know, and am persuaded by the Lord Jesus, that there is nothing unclean of itself: but to him that esteemeth any thing to be unclean, to him it is unclean.

Him that is weak in the faith receive ye, but not to doubtful disputations. — read the full passage →

I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service. — read the full passage →

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

Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me. — read the full passage →

When therefore the Lord knew how the Pharisees had heard that Jesus made and baptized more disciples than John, — read the full passage →

Hear ye this, O house of Jacob, which are called by the name of Israel, and are come forth out of the waters of Judah, which swear by the name of the Lord, and make mention of the God of Israel, but not in truth, nor in righteousness. — read the full passage →