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Eating Too Much Food
Proverbs 23:20 ESV / 124 helpful votes
Be not among drunkards or among gluttonous eaters of meat,
1 Corinthians 6:19-20 ESV / 59 helpful votes
Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, whom you have from God? You are not your own, for you were bought with a price. So glorify God in your body.
Philippians 3:19 ESV / 54 helpful votes
Their end is destruction, their god is their belly, and they glory in their shame, with minds set on earthly things.
Romans 14:15 ESV / 45 helpful votes
For if your brother is grieved by what you eat, you are no longer walking in love. By what you eat, do not destroy the one for whom Christ died.
Proverbs 23:2 ESV / 39 helpful votes
And put a knife to your throat if you are given to appetite.
1 Corinthians 6:12 ESV / 33 helpful votes
“All things are lawful for me,” but not all things are helpful. “All things are lawful for me,” but I will not be enslaved by anything.
Proverbs 23:20-21 ESV / 29 helpful votes
Be not among drunkards or among gluttonous eaters of meat, for the drunkard and the glutton will come to poverty, and slumber will clothe them with rags.
Galatians 5:13 ESV / 25 helpful votes
For you were called to freedom, brothers. Only do not use your freedom as an opportunity for the flesh, but through love serve one another.
Hebrews 4:15 ESV / 22 helpful votes
For we do not have a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses, but one who in every respect has been tempted as we are, yet without sin.
Matthew 16:19 ESV / 20 helpful votes
I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven, and whatever you bind on earth shall be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven.”
Matthew 4:2 ESV / 17 helpful votes
And after fasting forty days and forty nights, he was hungry.
Romans 14:23 ESV / 16 helpful votes
But whoever has doubts is condemned if he eats, because the eating is not from faith. For whatever does not proceed from faith is sin.
Isaiah 28:7 ESV / 13 helpful votes
These also reel with wine and stagger with strong drink; the priest and the prophet reel with strong drink, they are swallowed by wine, they stagger with strong drink, they reel in vision, they stumble in giving judgment.
Proverbs 20:1 ESV / 13 helpful votes
Wine is a mocker, strong drink a brawler, and whoever is led astray by it is not wise.
Ephesians 5:18 ESV / 12 helpful votes
And do not get drunk with wine, for that is debauchery, but be filled with the Spirit,
1 Corinthians 6:9-10 ESV / 12 helpful votes
Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who practice homosexuality, nor thieves, nor the greedy, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God.
1 Kings 19:8 ESV / 12 helpful votes
And he arose and ate and drank, and went in the strength of that food forty days and forty nights to Horeb, the mount of God.
Matthew 18:18 ESV / 11 helpful votes
Truly, I say to you, whatever you bind on earth shall be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven.
2 John 1:10 ESV / 10 helpful votes
If anyone comes to you and does not bring this teaching, do not receive him into your house or give him any greeting,
Daniel 10:1-3 ESV / 10 helpful votes
In the third year of Cyrus king of Persia a word was revealed to Daniel, who was named Belteshazzar. And the word was true, and it was a great conflict. And he understood the word and had understanding of the vision. In those days I, Daniel, was mourning for three weeks. I ate no delicacies, no meat or wine entered my mouth, nor did I anoint myself at all, for the full three weeks.
Ephesians 5:18-20 ESV / 9 helpful votes
And do not get drunk with wine, for that is debauchery, but be filled with the Spirit, addressing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody to the Lord with your heart, giving thanks always and for everything to God the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ,
1 Corinthians 7:5 ESV / 9 helpful votes
Do not deprive one another, except perhaps by agreement for a limited time, that you may devote yourselves to prayer; but then come together again, so that Satan may not tempt you because of your lack of self-control.
Matthew 23:2-4 ESV / 7 helpful votes
“The scribes and the Pharisees sit on Moses’ seat, so practice and observe whatever they tell you—but not what they do. For they preach, but do not practice. They tie up heavy burdens, hard to bear, and lay them on people’s shoulders, but they themselves are not willing to move them with their finger.
Proverbs 25:27 ESV / 6 helpful votes
It is not good to eat much honey, nor is it glorious to seek one’s own glory.
Numbers 6:2-3 ESV / 6 helpful votes
“Speak to the people of Israel and say to them, When either a man or a woman makes a special vow, the vow of a Nazirite, to separate himself to the Lord, he shall separate himself from wine and strong drink. He shall drink no vinegar made from wine or strong drink and shall not drink any juice of grapes or eat grapes, fresh or dried.
1 Corinthians 8:13 ESV / 5 helpful votes
Therefore, if food makes my brother stumble, I will never eat meat, lest I make my brother stumble.
1 Corinthians 8:9 ESV / 5 helpful votes
But take care that this right of yours does not somehow become a stumbling block to the weak.
Luke 16:16 ESV / 5 helpful votes
“The Law and the Prophets were until John; since then the good news of the kingdom of God is preached, and everyone forces his way into it.
John 17:9 ESV / 4 helpful votes
I am praying for them. I am not praying for the world but for those whom you have given me, for they are yours.
John 3:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful
“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.
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