16 Bible Verses about overeating

If you have honey, take only as much as is enough for you; for fear that, being full of it, you may not be able to keep it down.

When you take your seat at the feast with a ruler, give thought with care to what is before you;

For when you take your food, everyone takes his meal before the other; and one has not enough food, and another is the worse for drink.

And put a knife to your throat, if you have a strong desire for food.

But give attention to yourselves, for fear that your hearts become over-full of the pleasures of food and wine, and the cares of this life, and that day may come on you suddenly, and take you as in a net:

But when you come, go and take the lowest seat, so that when the giver of the feast comes, he may say to you, Friend, come up higher; and then you will have honour in the eyes of all the others who are there.

For those who take delight in drink and feasting will come to be in need; and through love of sleep a man will be poorly clothed

Truly, this was the sin of your sister Sodom: pride, a full measure of food, and the comforts of wealth in peace, were seen in her and her daughters, and she gave no help to the poor or to those in need.

It is not good to take much honey: so he who is not looking for honour will be honoured.

Do not be among those who give themselves to wine-drinking, or among those who make themselves full with meat:

And do not give overmuch thought to your food and drink, and let not your mind be full of doubts.

Because as in those days before the overflowing of the waters, they were feasting and taking wives and getting married, till the day when Noah went into the ark,

And they came to Samaria, and put the king's body to rest in Samaria.

If a Gentile makes a feast for you, and you are pleased to go as a guest, take whatever is put before you, without question of right or wrong.

And the land itself has become unclean; so that I have sent on it the reward of its wrongdoing, and the land itself puts out those who are living in it.

My loved ones, I make this request with all my heart, that, as those for whom this world is a strange country, you will keep yourselves from the desires of the flesh which make war against the soul;