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.
“Or don't you know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit which is in you, which you have from God? You are not your own,”
“for you were bought with a price. Therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God's.”
“But Yahweh said to Samuel, "Don't look on his face, or on the height of his stature; because I have rejected him: for [Yahweh sees] not as man sees; for man looks at the outward appearance, but Yahweh looks at the heart."”
“Don't you know that you are a temple of God, and that God's Spirit lives in you?”
“If anyone destroys the temple of God, God will destroy him; for God's temple is holy, which you are.”
“For bodily exercise has some value, but godliness has value in all things, having the promise of the life which is now, and of that which is to come.”
“but I beat my body and bring it into submission, lest by any means, after I have preached to others, I myself should be rejected.”
“for the drunkard and the glutton shall become poor; and drowsiness clothes them in rags.”
“Don't be among ones drinking too much wine, or those who gorge themselves on meat:”
“Whoever keeps the law is a wise son; but he who is a companion of gluttons shames his father.”
“whose end is destruction, whose god is the belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who think about earthly things.”
“put a knife to your throat, if you are a man given to appetite.”
“and they shall tell 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; nor is it honorable to seek one's own honor.”
“Behold, this was the iniquity of your sister Sodom: pride, fullness of bread, and prosperous ease was in her and in her daughters; neither did she strengthen the hand of the poor and needy.”
“Have you found honey? Eat as much as is sufficient for you, lest you eat too much, and vomit it.”
“For many walk, of whom I told you often, and now tell you even weeping, as the enemies of the cross of Christ,”
“But Jeshurun grew fat, and kicked. You have grown fat. You have grown thick. You have become sleek. Then he forsook God who made him, and lightly esteemed the Rock of his salvation.”
“Happy are you, land, when your king is the son of nobles, and your princes eat in due season, for strength, and not for drunkenness!”