Bible Verses about “gluttony”
The Bible contains 15 verses about gluttony 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.”
“Whether therefore ye eat, or drink, or whatsoever ye do, do all to the glory of God.”
“¶ Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and [that] the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?”
“But put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make not provision for the flesh, to [fulfil] the lusts [thereof].”
“If any man defile the temple of God, him shall God destroy; for the temple of God is holy, which [temple] ye are.”
“¶ All things are lawful unto me, but all things are not expedient: all things are lawful for me, but I will not be brought under the power of any.”
“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:”
“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.”
“¶ 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:”
“And they tempted God in their heart by asking meat for their lust.”