16 Bible Verses about overeating

Hast thou found honey? eat so much as is sufficient for thee, lest thou be filled therewith, and vomit it.

When thou sittest to eat with a ruler, consider diligently what is before thee:

For in eating every one taketh before other his own supper: and one is hungry, and another is drunken.

And put a knife to thy throat, if thou be a man given to appetite.

And take heed to yourselves, lest at any time your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting, and drunkenness, and cares of this life, and so that day come upon you unawares.

But when thou art bidden, go and sit down in the lowest room; that when he that bade thee cometh, he may say unto thee, Friend, go up higher: then shalt thou have worship in the presence of them that sit at meat with thee.

For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty: and drowsiness shall clothe a man with rags.

Behold, this was the iniquity of thy sister Sodom, pride, fulness of bread, and abundance of idleness was in her and in her daughters, neither did she strengthen the hand of the poor and needy.

It is not good to eat much honey: so for men to search their own glory is not glory.

Be not among winebibbers; among riotous eaters of flesh:

And seek not ye what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink, neither be ye of doubtful mind.

For as in the days that were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark,

So the king died, and was brought to Samaria; and they buried the king in Samaria.

If any of them that believe not bid you to a feast, and ye be disposed to go; whatsoever is set before you, eat, asking no question for conscience sake.

And the land is defiled: therefore I do visit the iniquity thereof upon it, and the land itself vomiteth out her inhabitants.

Dearly beloved, I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;