The Stomach

Be no longer a drinker of water only, but use a little wine for your stomach’s sake and your frequent infirmities.

knowing this first, that no prophecy of Scripture is of private interpretation.

He said to them, “Are you thus without understanding also? Don’t you perceive that whatever goes into the man from outside can’t defile him, — read the full passage →

Flee from youthful lusts; but pursue righteousness, faith, love, and peace with those who call on the Lord out of a pure heart.

Don’t be drunken with wine, in which is dissipation, but be filled with the Spirit,

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,

in all things showing yourself an example of good works; in your teaching showing integrity, seriousness, incorruptibility,

Beloved, I beg you as foreigners and pilgrims, to abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;

Be imitators of me, even as I also am of Christ. — read the full passage →

“Foods for the belly, and the belly for foods,” but God will bring to nothing both it and them. But the body is not for sexual immorality, but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body.

I went to the angel, telling him to give me the little book. He said to me, “Take it, and eat it up. It will make your stomach bitter, but in your mouth it will be as sweet as honey.”

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

Let us therefore, as many as are perfect, think this way. If in anything you think otherwise, God will also reveal that to you. — read the full passage →

But Jesus, perceiving their thoughts, answered them, “Why are you reasoning so in your hearts?

For this is the will of God: your sanctification, that you abstain from sexual immorality, — read the full passage →

Whether therefore you eat, or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.

Don’t you know that you are a temple of God, and that God’s Spirit lives in you? — read the full passage →

For he will be great in the sight of the Lord, and he will drink no wine nor strong drink. He will be filled with the Holy Spirit, even from his mother’s womb.

But sexual immorality, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not even be mentioned among you, as becomes saints;

envyings, murders, drunkenness, orgies, and things like these; of which I forewarn you, even as I also forewarned you, that those who practice such things will not inherit the Kingdom of God.

Now the works of the flesh are obvious, which are: adultery, sexual immorality, uncleanness, lustfulness,

nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor slanderers, nor extortionists, will inherit the Kingdom of God.

Let us walk properly, as in the day; not in reveling and drunkenness, not in sexual promiscuity and lustful acts, and not in strife and jealousy. — read the full passage →

Sanctify them in your truth. Your word is truth.