16 Bible Verses about overeating

Honey thou hast found -- eat thy sufficiency, Lest thou be satiated with it, and hast vomited it.

When thou sittest to eat with a ruler, Thou considerest diligently that which is before thee,

for each his own supper doth take before in the eating, and one is hungry, and another is drunk;

And thou hast put a knife to thy throat, If thou art a man of appetite.

'And take heed to yourselves, lest your hearts may be weighed down with surfeiting, and drunkenness, and anxieties of life, and suddenly that day may come on you,

'But, when thou mayest be called, having gone on, recline in the last place, that when he who called thee may come, he may say to thee, Friend, come up higher; then thou shalt have glory before those reclining with thee;

For the quaffer and glutton become poor, And drowsiness clotheth with rags.

Lo, this hath been the iniquity of Sodom thy sister, Arrogancy, fulness of bread, and quiet ease, Have been to her and to her daughters, And the hand of the afflicted and needy She hath not strengthened.

The eating of much honey is not good, Nor a searching out of one's own honour -- honour.

Be not thou among quaffers of wine, Among gluttonous ones of flesh,

And ye -- seek not what ye may eat, or what ye may drink, and be not in suspense,

for as they were, in the days before the flood, eating, and drinking, marrying, and giving in marriage, till the day Noah entered into the ark,

And the king dieth, and cometh into Samaria, and they bury the king in Samaria;

and if any one of the unbelieving do call you, and ye wish to go, all that is set before you eat, nothing inquiring, because of the conscience;

and the land is defiled, and I charge its iniquity upon it, and the land vomiteth out its inhabitants:

Beloved, I call upon you, as strangers and sojourners, to keep from the fleshly desires, that war against the soul,