Bible Verses about “overcoming gluttony”
The Bible contains 29 verses about overcoming gluttony 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.”
“I can do all things through Christ, who strengthens me.”
“Be sober and self-controlled. Be watchful. Your adversary, the devil, walks around like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour.”
“for the Kingdom of God is not eating and drinking, but righteousness, peace, and joy in the Holy Spirit.”
“Don't you know that those who run in a race all run, but one receives the prize? Run like that, that you may win.”
“Every man who strives in the games exercises self-control in all things. Now they do it to receive a corruptible crown, but we an incorruptible.”
“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 mind of the flesh is death, but the mind of the Spirit is life and peace;”
“because the mind of the flesh is hostile towards God; for it is not subject to God's law, neither indeed can it be.”
“Blessed are those who hunger and thirst after righteousness, for they shall be filled.”
“I therefore run like that, as not uncertainly. I fight like that, as not beating the air,”
“Jesus therefore said to them, "Most certainly I tell you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you don't have life in yourselves.”
“This is the bread which comes down out of heaven, that anyone may eat of it and not die.”
“For those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit, the things of the Spirit.”
“I am the living bread which came down out of heaven. If anyone eats of this bread, he will live forever. Yes, the bread which I will give for the life of the world is my flesh."”
“Those who are in the flesh can't please God.”
“for the drunkard and the glutton shall become poor; and drowsiness clothes them in rags.”
“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.”
“I am the bread of life.”
“Your fathers ate the manna in the wilderness, and they died.”
“Neither present your members to sin as instruments of unrighteousness, but present yourselves to God, as alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness to God.”
“Therefore don't let sin reign in your mortal body, that you should obey it in its lusts.”
“Surely I have stilled and quieted my soul, like a weaned child with his mother, like a weaned child is my soul within me.”
“I haven't gone back from the commandment of his lips. I have treasured up the words of his mouth more than my necessary food.”
“But he knows the way that I take. When he has tried me, I shall come forth like gold.”
“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!”
“My foot has held fast to his steps. I have kept his way, and not turned aside.”