Overcoming Gluttony

Know ye not that they that run in a race run all, but one receiveth the prize? Even so run; that ye may attain. — read the full passage →

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

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

I can do all things in him that strengtheneth me.

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

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

Be sober, be watchful: 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 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 that hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled.

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

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 →

Surely I have stilled and quieted my soul; Like a weaned child with his mother, Like a weaned child is my soul within me.

Jesus therefore 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 not life in yourselves.

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

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!

Behold what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called children of God; and such we are. For this cause the world knoweth us not, because it knew him not. — read the full passage →

For freedom did Christ set us free: stand fast therefore, and be not entangled again in a yoke of bondage. — 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 →

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;

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

Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, to the elect who are sojourners of the Dispersion in Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia, — read the full passage →

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

But concerning the times and the seasons, brethren, ye have no need that aught be written unto you. — read the full passage →

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

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

O Jehovah, thou hast searched me, and knownme. — read the full passage →

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

And to 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 thou art dead. — read the full passage →

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

Putting away therefore all wickedness, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil speakings, — read the full passage →

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

For God gave us not a spirit of fearfulness; but of power and love and discipline. — read the full passage →

despise not prophesyings; — read the full passage →

Having therefore these promises, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all defilement of 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 through fire. — read the full passage →

And when Jesus heard it, he said unto him, One thing thou lackest yet: 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 the end that they 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 Jehovah came unto Zechariah in the fourth day of the ninth month, even in Chislev. — read the full passage →

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

The full soul loatheth a 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 Jehovah, Consider my meditation. — read the full passage →

Now concerning things sacrificed to idols: We know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffeth up, but love edifieth. — read the full passage →

I know, and am persuaded in the Lord Jesus, that nothing is unclean of itself: save that to him who accounteth anything to be unclean, to him it is unclean.

But him that is weak in faith receive ye, yet not for decision of scruples. — read the full passage →

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. — 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: believe in God, believe also in me. — read the full passage →

When therefore the Lord knew that the Pharisees had heard that Jesus was making and baptizing more disciples than John — read the full passage →

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