Bible Verses about โgluttonyโ
The Bible contains 15 verses about gluttony across both Old and New Testaments. These scriptures offer guidance and inspiration for your spiritual journey.
โOr 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,โ
โfor you were bought with a price. Therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God's.โ
โWhether therefore you eat, or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.โ
โDon't you know that you are a temple of God, and that God's Spirit lives in you?โ
โBut put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh, for its lusts.โ
โIf anyone destroys the temple of God, God will destroy him; for God's temple is holy, which you are.โ
โ"All things are lawful for me," but not all things are expedient. "All things are lawful for me," but I will not be brought under the power of anything.โ
โfor the drunkard and the glutton shall become poor; and drowsiness clothes them in rags.โ
โDon't be among ones drinking too much wine, or those who gorge themselves on meat:โ
โwhose end is destruction, whose god is the belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who think about earthly things.โ
โput a knife to your throat, if you are a man given to appetite.โ
โand 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."โ
โHave you found honey? Eat as much as is sufficient for you, lest you eat too much, and vomit it.โ
โFor many walk, of whom I told you often, and now tell you even weeping, as the enemies of the cross of Christ,โ
โThey tempted God in their heart by asking food according to their desire.โ
