16 Bible Verses about overeating

Hast thou found honey? Eat so much as is sufficient for thee, lest thou be surfeited therewith, and vomit it.

When thou sittest to eat with a ruler, consider well who is before thee;

For each one in eating takes his own supper before others, and one is hungry and another drinks to excess.

and put a knife to thy throat, if thou be a man given to appetite.

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;

But when thou hast been invited, go and put thyself down in the last place, that when he who has invited thee comes, he may say to thee, Friend, go up higher: then shalt thou have honour before all that are lying at table with thee;

For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty; and drowsiness clotheth with rags.

Behold, this was the iniquity of thy sister Sodom: pride, fulness of bread, and careless ease was in her and in her daughters, but she did not strengthen the hand of the poor and needy.

It is not good to eat much honey; and to search into weighty matters is itself a weight.

Be not among winebibbers, among riotous eaters of flesh.

And ye, seek not what ye shall eat or what ye shall drink, and be not in anxiety;

For as they were in the days which were before the flood, eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day on which Noe entered into the ark,

And the king died, and was brought to Samaria; and they buried the king in Samaria.

But if any one of the unbelievers invite you, and ye are minded to go, all that is set before you eat, making no inquiry for conscience sake.

And the land hath become unclean; and I visit the iniquity thereof upon it, and the land vomiteth out its inhabitants.

Beloved, I exhort you, as strangers and sojourners, to abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;