Bible Verses about “gaining weight”
The Bible contains 19 verses about gaining weight across both Old and New Testaments. These scriptures offer guidance and inspiration for your spiritual journey.
“What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost [which is] in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own?”
“For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's.”
“But the LORD said unto Samuel, Look not on his countenance, or on the height of his stature; because I have refused him: for [the LORD seeth] not as man seeth; for man looketh on the outward appearance, but the LORD looketh on the heart.”
“¶ Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and [that] the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?”
“If any man defile the temple of God, him shall God destroy; for the temple of God is holy, which [temple] ye are.”
“For bodily exercise profiteth little: but godliness is profitable unto all things, having promise of the life that now is, and of that which is to come.”
“But I keep under my body, and bring [it] into subjection: lest that by any means, when I have preached to others, I myself should be a castaway.”
“For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty: and drowsiness shall clothe [a man] with rags.”
“Be not among winebibbers; among riotous eaters of flesh:”
“¶ Whoso keepeth the law [is] a wise son: but he that is a companion of riotous [men] shameth his father.”
“Whose end [is] destruction, whose God [is their] belly, and [whose] glory [is] in their shame, who mind earthly things.)”
“And put a knife to thy throat, if thou [be] a man given to appetite.”
“And they shall say unto the elders of his city, This our son [is] stubborn and rebellious, he will not obey our voice; [he is] a glutton, and a drunkard.”
“¶ [It is] not good to eat much honey: so [for men] to search their own glory [is not] glory.”
“Behold, this was the iniquity of thy sister Sodom, pride, fulness of bread, and abundance of idleness was in her and in her daughters, neither did she strengthen the hand of the poor and needy.”
“¶ Hast thou found honey? eat so much as is sufficient for thee, lest thou be filled therewith, and vomit it.”
“(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:”
“¶ 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.”
“Blessed [art] thou, O land, when thy king [is] the son of nobles, and thy princes eat in due season, for strength, and not for drunkenness!”