Bible Verses about “being overweight”

“No temptation has taken you except what is common to man. God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted above what you are able, but will with the temptation also make the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it.”

“Be sober and self-controlled. Be watchful. Your adversary, the devil, walks around like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour.”

“But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faith,”

“gentleness, and self-control. Against such things there is no law.”

“Don't you know that you are a temple of God, and that God's Spirit lives in you?”

“Now accept one who is weak in faith, but not for disputes over opinions.”

“So then each one of us will give account of himself to God.”

“It is good to not eat meat, drink wine, nor do anything by which your brother stumbles, is offended, or is made weak.”

“If anyone destroys the temple of God, God will destroy him; for God's temple is holy, which you are.”

“One man has faith to eat all things, but he who is weak eats only vegetables.”

“Don't let him who eats despise him who doesn't eat. Don't let him who doesn't eat judge him who eats, for God has accepted him.”

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

“I know, and am persuaded in the Lord Jesus, that nothing is unclean of itself; except that to him who considers anything to be unclean, to him it is unclean.”

“Therefore let's not judge one another any more, but judge this rather, that no man put a stumbling block in his brother's way, or an occasion for falling.”

“Who are you who judge another's servant? To his own lord he stands or falls. Yes, he will be made to stand, for God has power to make him stand.”

“But you, why do you judge your brother? Or you again, why do you despise your brother? For we will all stand before the judgment seat of Christ.”

“For it is written, "'As I live,' says the Lord, 'to me every knee will bow. Every tongue will confess to God.'"”

“For if we live, we live to the Lord. Or if we die, we die to the Lord. If therefore we live or die, we are the Lord's.”

“for the Kingdom of God is not eating and drinking, but righteousness, peace, and joy in the Holy Spirit.”

“So then, let us follow after things which make for peace, and things by which we may build one another up.”

“One man esteems one day as more important. Another esteems every day alike. Let each man be fully assured in his own mind.”

“He who observes the day, observes it to the Lord; and he who does not observe the day, to the Lord he does not observe it. He who eats, eats to the Lord, for he gives God thanks. He who doesn't eat, to the Lord he doesn't eat, and gives God thanks.”

“Yet if because of food your brother is grieved, you walk no longer in love. Don't destroy with your food him for whom Christ died.”

“But he who doubts is condemned if he eats, because it isn't of faith; and whatever is not of faith is sin.”

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

“Do you have faith? Have it to yourself before God. Happy is he who doesn't judge himself in that which he approves.”

“Then don't let your good be slandered,”

“For none of us lives to himself, and none dies to himself.”

“Don't overthrow God's work for food's sake. All things indeed are clean, however it is evil for that man who creates a stumbling block by eating.”

“For he who serves Christ in these things is acceptable to God and approved by men.”

“For if we sin willfully after we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remains no more a sacrifice for sins,”

“You are of God, little children, and have overcome them; because greater is he who is in you than he who is in the world.”

“For whatever things were written before were written for our learning, that through patience and through encouragement of the Scriptures we might have hope.”

“Therefore, prepare your minds for action, be sober and set your hope fully on the grace that will be brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ--”

“Now we who are strong ought to bear the weaknesses of the weak, and not to please ourselves.”

“Let each one of us please his neighbor for that which is good, to be building him up.”

“whose end is destruction, whose god is the belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who think about earthly things.”

“Therefore accept one another, even as Christ also accepted you, to the glory of God.”

“put a knife to your throat, if you are a man given to appetite.”

“"All things are lawful for me," but not all things are profitable. "All things are lawful for me," but not all things build up.”

“Now the God of patience and of encouragement grant you to be of the same mind one with another according to Christ Jesus,”

“that with one accord you may with one mouth glorify the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.”

“Don't seek what you will eat or what you will drink; neither be anxious.”

“One of them, a prophet of their own, said, "Cretans are always liars, evil beasts, and idle gluttons."”

“and that the Gentiles might glorify God for his mercy. As it is written, "Therefore will I give praise to you among the Gentiles, and sing to your name."”

“For even Christ didn't please himself. But, as it is written, "The reproaches of those who reproached you fell on me."”

“I myself am also persuaded about you, my brothers, that you yourselves are full of goodness, filled with all knowledge, able also to admonish others.”

“whenever I journey to Spain, I will come to you. For I hope to see you on my journey, and to be helped on my way there by you, if first I may enjoy your company for a while.”

“When therefore I have accomplished this, and have sealed to them this fruit, I will go on by way of you to Spain.”

“Now I beg you, brothers, by our Lord Jesus Christ, and by the love of the Spirit, that you strive together with me in your prayers to God for me,”