Bible Verses about “being overweight”

“There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God [is] faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear [it].”

“¶ Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour:”

“But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith,”

“Meekness, temperance: against such there is no law.”

“¶ Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and [that] the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?”

“¶ Him that is weak in the faith receive ye, [but] not to doubtful disputations.”

“So then every one of us shall give account of himself to God.”

“[It is] good neither to eat flesh, nor to drink wine, nor [any thing] whereby thy brother stumbleth, or is offended, or is made weak.”

“If any man defile the temple of God, him shall God destroy; for the temple of God is holy, which [temple] ye are.”

“For one believeth that he may eat all things: another, who is weak, eateth herbs.”

“Let not him that eateth despise him that eateth not; and let not him which eateth not judge him that eateth: for God hath received him.”

“¶ Now the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that ye may abound in hope, through the power of the Holy Ghost.”

“I know, and am persuaded by the Lord Jesus, that [there is] nothing unclean of itself: but to him that esteemeth any thing to be unclean, to him [it is] unclean.”

“Let us not therefore judge one another any more: but judge this rather, that no man put a stumblingblock or an occasion to fall in [his] brother's way.”

“Who art thou that judgest another man's servant? to his own master he standeth or falleth. Yea, he shall be holden up: for God is able to make him stand.”

“But why dost thou judge thy brother? or why dost thou set at nought thy brother? for we shall all stand before the judgment seat of Christ.”

“For it is written, [As] I live, saith the Lord, every knee shall bow to me, and every tongue shall confess to God.”

“For whether we live, we live unto the Lord; and whether we die, we die unto the Lord: whether we live therefore, or die, we are the Lord's.”

“For the kingdom of God is not meat and drink; but righteousness, and peace, and joy in the Holy Ghost.”

“Let us therefore follow after the things which make for peace, and things wherewith one may edify another.”

“One man esteemeth one day above another: another esteemeth every day [alike]. Let every man be fully persuaded in his own mind.”

“He that regardeth the day, regardeth [it] unto the Lord; and he that regardeth not the day, to the Lord he doth not regard [it]. He that eateth, eateth to the Lord, for he giveth God thanks; and he that eateth not, to the Lord he eateth not, and giveth God thanks.”

“But if thy brother be grieved with [thy] meat, now walkest thou not charitably. Destroy not him with thy meat, for whom Christ died.”

“And he that doubteth is damned if he eat, because [he eateth] not of faith: for whatsoever [is] not of faith is sin.”

“For to this end Christ both died, and rose, and revived, that he might be Lord both of the dead and living.”

“Hast thou faith? have [it] to thyself before God. Happy [is] he that condemneth not himself in that thing which he alloweth.”

“Let not then your good be evil spoken of:”

“For none of us liveth to himself, and no man dieth to himself.”

“For meat destroy not the work of God. All things indeed [are] pure; but [it is] evil for that man who eateth with offence.”

“For he that in these things serveth Christ [is] acceptable to God, and approved of men.”

“For if we sin wilfully after that we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remaineth no more sacrifice for sins,”

“¶ Ye are of God, little children, and have overcome them: because greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world.”

“For whatsoever things were written aforetime were written for our learning, that we through patience and comfort of the scriptures might have hope.”

“¶ Wherefore gird up the loins of your mind, be sober, and hope to the end for the grace that is to be brought unto you at the revelation of Jesus Christ;”

“¶ We then that are strong ought to bear the infirmities of the weak, and not to please ourselves.”

“Let every one of us please [his] neighbour for [his] good to edification.”

“Whose end [is] destruction, whose God [is their] belly, and [whose] glory [is] in their shame, who mind earthly things.)”

“¶ Wherefore receive ye one another, as Christ also received us to the glory of God.”

“And put a knife to thy throat, if thou [be] a man given to appetite.”

“¶ All things are lawful for me, but all things are not expedient: all things are lawful for me, but all things edify not.”

“¶ Now the God of patience and consolation grant you to be likeminded one toward another according to Christ Jesus:”

“That ye may with one mind [and] one mouth glorify God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.”

“‹And seek not ye what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink, neither be ye of doubtful mind.›”

“One of themselves, [even] a prophet of their own, said, The Cretians [are] alway liars, evil beasts, slow bellies.”

“And that the Gentiles might glorify God for [his] mercy; as it is written, For this cause I will confess to thee among the Gentiles, and sing unto thy name.”

“For even Christ pleased not himself; but, as it is written, The reproaches of them that reproached thee fell on me.”

“¶ And I myself also am persuaded of you, my brethren, that ye also are full of goodness, filled with all knowledge, able also to admonish one another.”

“Whensoever I take my journey into Spain, I will come to you: for I trust to see you in my journey, and to be brought on my way thitherward by you, if first I be somewhat filled with your [company].”

“When therefore I have performed this, and have sealed to them this fruit, I will come by you into Spain.”

“¶ Now I beseech you, brethren, for the Lord Jesus Christ's sake, and for the love of the Spirit, that ye strive together with me in [your] prayers to God for me;”