Thematic Bible: Restrained
Thematic Bible
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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