Bible Verses about “being fat”
The Bible contains 47 verses about being fat across both Old and New Testaments. These scriptures offer guidance and inspiration for your spiritual journey.
“And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what [is] that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.”
“¶ I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, [which is] your reasonable service.”
“¶ And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which [is] upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which [is] the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat.”
“If any man defile the temple of God, him shall God destroy; for the temple of God is holy, which [temple] ye are.”
“Beloved, I wish above all things that thou mayest prosper and be in health, even as thy soul prospereth.”
“Prove thy servants, I beseech thee, ten days; and let them give us pulse to eat, and water to drink.”
“¶ Ye [are] the children of the LORD your God: ye shall not cut yourselves, nor make any baldness between your eyes for the dead.”
“Whose end [is] destruction, whose God [is their] belly, and [whose] glory [is] in their shame, who mind earthly things.)”
“And the swine, because it divideth the hoof, yet cheweth not the cud, it [is] unclean unto you: ye shall not eat of their flesh, nor touch their dead carcase.”
“These ye shall eat of all that [are] in the waters: all that have fins and scales shall ye eat:”
“The hart, and the roebuck, and the fallow deer, and the wild goat, and the pygarg, and the wild ox, and the chamois.”
“Ye shall not eat [of] any thing that dieth of itself: thou shalt give it unto the stranger that [is] in thy gates, that he may eat it; or thou mayest sell it unto an alien: for thou [art] an holy people unto the LORD thy God. Thou shalt not seethe a kid in his mother's milk.”
“Nevertheless these ye shall not eat of them that chew the cud, or of them that divide the cloven hoof; [as] the camel, and the hare, and the coney: for they chew the cud, but divide not the hoof; [therefore] they [are] unclean unto you.”
“And whatsoever hath not fins and scales ye may not eat; it [is] unclean unto you.”
“And every raven after his kind,”
“And the owl, and the night hawk, and the cuckow, and the hawk after his kind,”
“The little owl, and the great owl, and the swan,”
“And every creeping thing that flieth [is] unclean unto you: they shall not be eaten.”
“Thou shalt not eat any abominable thing.”
“These [are] the beasts which ye shall eat: the ox, the sheep, and the goat,”
“And every beast that parteth the hoof, and cleaveth the cleft into two claws, [and] cheweth the cud among the beasts, that ye shall eat.”
“[Of] all clean birds ye shall eat.”
“But these [are they] of which ye shall not eat: the eagle, and the ossifrage, and the ospray,”
“And the glede, and the kite, and the vulture after his kind,”
“And the pelican, and the gier eagle, and the cormorant,”
“And the stork, and the heron after her kind, and the lapwing, and the bat.”
“[But of] all clean fowls ye may eat.”
“And the Levite, (because he hath no part nor inheritance with thee,) and the stranger, and the fatherless, and the widow, which [are] within thy gates, shall come, and shall eat and be satisfied; that the LORD thy God may bless thee in all the work of thine hand which thou doest.”
“At the end of three years thou shalt bring forth all the tithe of thine increase the same year, and shalt lay [it] up within thy gates:”
“For thou [art] an holy people unto the LORD thy God, and the LORD hath chosen thee to be a peculiar people unto himself, above all the nations that [are] upon the earth.”
“And thou shalt bestow that money for whatsoever thy soul lusteth after, for oxen, or for sheep, or for wine, or for strong drink, or for whatsoever thy soul desireth: and thou shalt eat there before the LORD thy God, and thou shalt rejoice, thou, and thine household,”
“For our conversation is in heaven; from whence also we look for the Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ:”
“¶ Thou shalt truly tithe all the increase of thy seed, that the field bringeth forth year by year.”
“Then shalt thou turn [it] into money, and bind up the money in thine hand, and shalt go unto the place which the LORD thy God shall choose:”
“And thou shalt eat before the LORD thy God, in the place which he shall choose to place his name there, the tithe of thy corn, of thy wine, and of thine oil, and the firstlings of thy herds and of thy flocks; that thou mayest learn to fear the LORD thy God always.”
“And if the way be too long for thee, so that thou art not able to carry it; [or] if the place be too far from thee, which the LORD thy God shall choose to set his name there, when the LORD thy God hath blessed thee:”
“And the Levite that [is] within thy gates; thou shalt not forsake him; for he hath no part nor inheritance with thee.”
“Wherefore do ye spend money for [that which is] not bread? and your labour for [that which] satisfieth not? hearken diligently unto me, and eat ye [that which is] good, and let your soul delight itself in fatness.”
“[It shall be] a perpetual statute for your generations throughout all your dwellings, that ye eat neither fat nor blood.”
“¶ Ho, every one that thirsteth, come ye to the waters, and he that hath no money; come ye, buy, and eat; yea, come, buy wine and milk without money and without price.”
“(For many walk, of whom I have told you often, and now tell you even weeping, [that they are] the enemies of the cross of Christ:”
“Incline your ear, and come unto me: hear, and your soul shall live; and I will make an everlasting covenant with you, [even] the sure mercies of David.”
“Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, Ye shall eat no manner of fat, of ox, or of sheep, or of goat.”
“¶ But Jeshurun waxed fat, and kicked: thou art waxen fat, thou art grown thick, thou art covered [with fatness]; then he forsook God [which] made him, and lightly esteemed the Rock of his salvation.”
“Better [is] the sight of the eyes than the wandering of the desire: this [is] also vanity and vexation of spirit.”
“‹The Son of man is come eating and drinking; and ye say, Behold a gluttonous man, and a winebibber, a friend of publicans and sinners!›”
“Because he covereth his face with his fatness, and maketh collops of fat on [his] flanks.”