Thematic Bible: Restrained
Thematic Bible
Appetites » Restrained
Keep no company with winebibbers and riotous eaters of flesh;
but I tame my body and bring it into subjection, lest after that I have preached to others, I myself should be a castaway.
And he spake unto his disciples, "Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat: Neither for your body, what ye shall put on.
Take heed to yourselves, lest your hearts be overcome with surfeiting and drunkenness, and cares of this world: and that, that day come on you unawares.
When thou sittest at the table to eat with a lord, order thyself mannerly with the things that are set before thee. Measure thine appetite:
If thou findest honey, eat so much as is sufficient for thee; lest thou be overfull, and parbreak it out again.
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- Asceticism, Types
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- Body
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- Care
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- Christ Speaking To Disciples
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- Conduct, Proper
- Diets
- Dissipation
- Do Not Be Anxious
- Do Not Get Drunk
- Drunkenness
- Excess
- Extravagance
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- God Trapping
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- Heavy Burdens
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- Instruction About Clothes
- Leisure, Nature And Purpose Of
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- Making Slaves
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- Mortification
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- Not Worrying
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- Overload
- Overweight
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