Overcoming Gluttony

Don’t you know that those who run in a race all run, but one receives the prize? Run like that, that you may win. — read the full passage →

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

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

I can do all things through Christ, who strengthens me.

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

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

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

But he knows the way that I take. When he has tried me, I shall come out like gold. — read the full passage →

For those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit, the things of the Spirit. — read the full passage →

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

Therefore don’t let sin reign in your mortal body, that you should obey it in its lusts. — read the full passage →

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 →

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 to them, “Most certainly I tell you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you don’t have life in yourselves.

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

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!

See how great a love the Father has bestowed on us, that we should be called children of God! For this cause the world doesn’t know us, because it didn’t know him. — read the full passage →

Stand firm therefore in the liberty by which Christ has made us free, and don’t be entangled again with a yoke of bondage. — 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 →

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,

I exhort the elders among you, as a fellow elder, and a witness of the sufferings of Christ, and who will also share in the glory that will be revealed. — read the full passage →

Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, to the chosen ones who are living as foreigners in the Dispersion in Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia, — read the full passage →

But say the things which fit sound doctrine, — read the full passage →

But concerning the times and the seasons, brothers, you have no need that anything be written to you. — read the full passage →

Peter said to them, “Repent, and be baptized, every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit. — read the full passage →

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

Yahweh, you have searched me, and you know me. — read the full passage →

How sweet are your promises to my taste, more than honey to my mouth!

“And to the angel of the assembly in Sardis write: “He who has the seven Spirits of God, and the seven stars says these things: “I know your works, that you have a reputation of being alive, but you are dead. — read the full passage →

“To the angel of the assembly in Ephesus write: “He who holds the seven stars in his right hand, he who walks among the seven golden lamp stands says these things: — read the full passage →

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

For every kind of animal, bird, creeping thing, and thing in the sea, is tamed, and has been tamed by mankind. — read the full passage →

For God didn’t give us a spirit of fear, but of power, love, and self-control. — read the full passage →

Don’t despise prophesies. — 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 is burned, he will suffer loss, but he himself will be saved, but as through fire. — read the full passage →

When Jesus heard these things, he said to him, “You still lack one thing. Sell all that you have, and distribute it to the poor. You will have treasure in heaven. Come, follow me.” — read the full passage →

He also spoke a parable to them that they must always pray, and not give up, — 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 →

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

A full soul loathes a honeycomb; but to a hungry soul, every bitter thing is sweet. — read the full passage →

As the deer pants for the water brooks, so my soul pants after you, God. — read the full passage →

Give ear to my words, Yahweh. Consider my meditation. — read the full passage →

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

I know, and am persuaded in the Lord Jesus, that nothing is unclean of itself; except that to him who considers anything to be unclean, to him it is unclean.

Now accept one who is weak in faith, but not for disputes over opinions. — read the full passage →

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. — read the full passage →

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

“Don’t let your heart be troubled. Believe in God. Believe also in me. — read the full passage →

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

“Hear this, house of Jacob, you who are called by the name of Israel, and have come out of the waters of Judah; who swear by Yahweh’s name, and make mention of the God of Israel, but not in truth, nor in righteousness — read the full passage →