Overcoming Gluttony

have ye not known that those running in a race--all indeed run, but one doth receive the prize? so run ye, that ye may obtain; — read the full passage →

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.

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

For all things I have strength, in Christ's strengthening me;

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

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

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

For He hath known the way with me, He hath tried me--as gold I go forth. — read the full passage →

For those who are according to the flesh, the things of the flesh do mind; and those according to the Spirit, the things of the Spirit; — read the full passage →

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

Let not then the sin reign in your mortal body, to obey it in its desires; — read the full passage →

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 →

Have I not compared, and kept silent my soul, As a weaned one by its mother? As a weaned one by me <FI>is<Fi> my soul.

Jesus, therefore, said to them, `Verily, verily, I say to you, If ye may not eat the flesh of the Son of Man, and may not drink his blood, ye have no life in yourselves;

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

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.

See ye what love the Father hath given to us, that children of God we may be called; because of this the world doth not know us, because it did not know Him; — read the full passage →

In the freedom, then, with which Christ did make you free--stand ye, and be not held fast again by a yoke of servitude; — 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 →

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,

Elders who <FI>are<Fi> among you, I exhort, who <FI>am<Fi> a fellow-elder, and a witness of the sufferings of the Christ, and of the glory about to be revealed a partaker, — read the full passage →

Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, to the choice sojourners of the dispersion of Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia, — read the full passage →

And thou--be speaking what doth become the sound teaching; — read the full passage →

And concerning the times and the seasons, brethren, ye have no need of my writing to you, — read the full passage →

and Peter said unto them, `Reform, and be baptized each of you on the name of Jesus Christ, to remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit, — read the full passage →

Whoso is vilifying his father and his mother, Extinguished is his lamp in blackness of darkness. — read the full passage →

To the Overseer. --A Psalm by David. Jehovah, Thou hast searched me, and knowest. — read the full passage →

How sweet to my palate hath been Thy saying, Above honey to my mouth.

And to the messenger of the assembly in Sardis write: These things saith he who is having the Seven Spirits of God, and the seven stars: I have known thy works, and that thou hast the name that thou dost live, and thou art dead; — read the full passage →

`To the messenger of the Ephesian assembly write: These things saith he who is holding the seven stars in his right hand, who is walking in the midst of the seven lamp-stands--the golden: — read the full passage →

Having put aside, then, all evil, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envyings, and all evil speakings, — read the full passage →

For every nature, both of beasts and of fowls, both of creeping things and things of the sea, is subdued, and hath been subdued, by the human nature, — read the full passage →

for God did not give us a spirit of fear, but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind; — read the full passage →

prophesyings despise not; — read the full passage →

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

if of any the work is burned up, he shall suffer loss; and himself shall be saved, but so as through fire. — read the full passage →

and having heard these things, Jesus said to him, `Yet one thing to thee is lacking; all things--as many as thou hast--sell, and distribute to the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in heaven, and come, be following me;' — read the full passage →

And he spake also a simile to them, that it behoveth <FI>us<Fi> always to pray, and not to faint, — 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 →

Lo, I have refined thee, and not with silver, I have chosen thee in a furnace of affliction. — read the full passage →

A satiated soul treadeth down a honeycomb, And <FI>to<Fi> a hungry soul every bitter thing <FI>is<Fi> sweet. — read the full passage →

To the Overseer. --An Instruction. By sons of Korah. As a hart doth pant for streams of water, So my soul panteth toward Thee, O God. — read the full passage →

To the Overseer, `Concerning the Inheritances.' --A Psalm of David. My sayings hear, O Jehovah, Consider my meditation. — read the full passage →

And concerning the things sacrificed to idols, we have known that we all have knowledge: knowledge puffeth up, but love buildeth up; — read the full passage →

I have known, and am persuaded, in the Lord Jesus, that nothing <FI>is<Fi> unclean of itself, except to him who is reckoning anything to be unclean--to that one <FI>it is<Fi> unclean;

And him who is weak in the faith receive ye--not to determinations of reasonings; — read the full passage →

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; — read the full passage →

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

`Let not your heart be troubled, believe in God, also in me believe; — read the full passage →

When therefore the Lord knew that the Pharisees heard that Jesus more disciples doth make and baptize than John, — read the full passage →

Hear ye this, O house of Jacob, Who are called by the name of Israel, And from the waters of Judah came out, Who are swearing by the name of Jehovah, And of the God of Israel make mention, Not in truth nor in righteousness. — read the full passage →