Bible Verses about “obesity”

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

“Whether therefore ye eat, or drink, or whatsoever ye do, do all to the glory of God.”

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

“[This] I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh.”

“Beloved, I wish above all things that thou mayest prosper and be in health, even as thy soul prospereth.”

“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.”

“And they that are Christ's have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts.”

“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 take heed to yourselves, lest at any time your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting, and drunkenness, and cares of this life, and› [so] ‹that day come upon you unawares.›”

“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.”

“¶ Hast thou found honey? eat so much as is sufficient for thee, lest thou be filled therewith, and vomit it.”

“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.”

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

“¶ 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:”

“Remove far from me vanity and lies: give me neither poverty nor riches; feed me with food convenient for me:”