Reference: Belly
Easton
the seat of the carnal affections (Tit 1:12; Php 3:19; Ro 16:18). The word is used symbolically for the heart (Pr 18:8; 20:27; 22:18, marg.). The "belly of hell" signifies the grave or underworld (Jon 2:2).
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The words of one who says evil of his neighbour secretly are like sweet food, and go down into the inner parts of the stomach.
The Lord keeps watch over the spirit of man, searching all the deepest parts of the body.
For it is a delight to keep them in your heart, to have them ready on your lips.
In my trouble I was crying to the Lord, and he gave me an answer; out of the deepest underworld I sent up a cry, and you gave ear to my voice.
For such people are not servants of the Lord Christ, but of their stomachs; and by their smooth and well-said words the hearts of those who have no knowledge of evil are tricked.
Whose end is destruction, whose god is the stomach, and whose glory is in their shame, whose minds are fixed on the things of the earth.
One of their prophets has said, The men of Crete are ever false, evil beasts, lovers of food, hating work.
Watsons
BELLY is used in Scripture for gluttony, Tit 1:12; Philipians 3:16; Ro 16:18. For the heart, or the secrets of the mind, Pr 20:27,30; 22:18. The "belly of hell" signifies the grave, or some imminent danger, or deep distress, Jon 2:2; Ecclus. 2:5.
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The Lord keeps watch over the spirit of man, searching all the deepest parts of the body.
By the wounds of the rod evil is taken away, and blows make clean the deepest parts of the body.
For it is a delight to keep them in your heart, to have them ready on your lips.
In my trouble I was crying to the Lord, and he gave me an answer; out of the deepest underworld I sent up a cry, and you gave ear to my voice.
For such people are not servants of the Lord Christ, but of their stomachs; and by their smooth and well-said words the hearts of those who have no knowledge of evil are tricked.
One of their prophets has said, The men of Crete are ever false, evil beasts, lovers of food, hating work.