Thematic Bible: Appetites
Thematic Bible
Appetites » The power of appetite
We remember the fish that we ate in Egypt for nothing; the cucumbers, and the melons, and the leeks, and the onions, and the garlic;
A man's belly is satisfied with the fruit of his mouth; with the increase of his lips is he satisfied.
and put a knife to thy throat, if thou be a man given to appetite.
'They have smitten me, and I am not sore; they have beaten me, and I knew it not. When shall I awake? I will seek it yet again.''
All the labour of man is for his mouth, and yet the appetite is not filled.
It shall even be as when the hungry dreameth, and, behold, he eateth; and he awaketh, and his soul is empty; or as when the thirsty dreameth, and, behold, he drinketh; and he awaketh, and, behold, he is faint, and his soul craveth: so shall the multitude of all the nations be that war against mount Zion.
Come, say they, I will fetch wine, and we will fill ourselves with strong drink; and to-morrow shall be as this day, and much more abundant.
Appetites » Restrained
Be not among winebibbers, among riotous eaters of flesh.
But I buffet my body, and lead it captive, lest after having preached to others I should be myself rejected.
And he said to his disciples, For this cause I say unto you, Be not careful for life, what ye shall eat, nor for the body, what ye shall put on.
But take heed to yourselves lest possibly your hearts be laden with surfeiting and drinking and cares of life, and that day come upon you suddenly unawares;
When thou sittest to eat with a ruler, consider well who is before thee; and put a knife to thy throat, if thou be a man given to appetite.
Hast thou found honey? Eat so much as is sufficient for thee, lest thou be surfeited therewith, and vomit it.
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- Bad Dreams
- Beating Oneself
- Being Positive
- Being Unsatisfied
- Body
- Candy
- Care
- Castaways
- Christ Speaking To Disciples
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- Conduct, Proper
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- Diets
- Dissipation
- Do Not Be Anxious
- Do Not Get Drunk
- Drunkenness
- Etiquette
- Excess
- Extravagance
- Fake Friends
- False Confidence
- Famine Coming
- Famine Will Come
- Feeling Lost
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- Fishes
- Free Of Charge
- Frugality
- Fruit
- Gluttony
- God Trapping
- Harvest
- Health
- Heavy Burdens
- Honey
- Hurt
- Insensibility
- Instruction About Clothes
- Knifes
- Knives
- Leisure, Nature And Purpose Of
- Licentiousness
- Like A Dream
- Lips
- Living Souls
- Looking Backward
- Lust
- Making Slaves
- Ministers, Should Be
- More Than Enough
- Mortification
- Motivation
- Mouths
- Not Mixing
- Not With People
- Not Worrying
- Obesity
- Overcoming
- Overload
- Overweight
- People Remembering
- Physical Hunger
- Powers Of Speech
- Prohibition
- Provision For The Body
- Race
- Rest, Physical
- Sanctification, Means And Results
- Seeking Food
- Self Delusion
- Self Denial
- Self Discipline
- Self Indulgence
- Sin, Causes Of
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- Strong Drink
- Suddenly
- Taking Care Of Your Body
- Temporal Blessings
- Vegetables
- Wake Up!
- Wine
- Working For Food
- Worry
- Worrying
- Worrying About The Future
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- Anxious
- Beer
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