Bible Verses about “overcoming gluttony”
Found 29 verses (ordered by relevance) about “overcoming gluttony” in the KJV version of the Bible
“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.”
“I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me.”
“¶ Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour:”
“For the kingdom of God is not meat and drink; but righteousness, and peace, and joy in the Holy Ghost.”
“¶ Know ye not that they which run in a race run all, but one receiveth the prize? So run, that ye may obtain.”
“And every man that striveth for the mastery is temperate in all things. Now they [do it] to obtain a corruptible crown; but we an incorruptible.”
“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 to be carnally minded [is] death; but to be spiritually minded [is] life and peace.”
“Because the carnal mind [is] enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be.”
“‹Blessed› [are] ‹they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled.›”
“I therefore so run, not as uncertainly; so fight I, not as one that beateth the air:”
“Then Jesus said unto them, ‹Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except ye eat the flesh of the Son of man, and drink his blood, ye have no life in you.›”
“‹This is the bread which cometh down from heaven, that a man may eat thereof, and not die.›”
“For they that are after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh; but they that are after the Spirit the things of the Spirit.”
“‹I am the living bread which came down from heaven: if any man eat of this bread, he shall live for ever: and the bread that I will give is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world.›”
“So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God.”
“For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty: and drowsiness shall clothe [a man] with rags.”
“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.”
“‹I am that bread of life.›”
“‹Your fathers did eat manna in the wilderness, and are dead.›”
“Neither yield ye your members [as] instruments of unrighteousness unto sin: but yield yourselves unto God, as those that are alive from the dead, and your members [as] instruments of righteousness unto God.”
“Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that ye should obey it in the lusts thereof.”
“Surely I have behaved and quieted myself, as a child that is weaned of his mother: my soul [is] even as a weaned child.”
“Neither have I gone back from the commandment of his lips; I have esteemed the words of his mouth more than my necessary [food].”
“But he knoweth the way that I take: [when] he hath tried me, I shall come forth as gold.”
“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!”
“My foot hath held his steps, his way have I kept, and not declined.”