16 Bible Verses about overeating
Most Relevant Verses
Honey having found, eat to suffice thee, lest thou loathe it, and vomit it forth.
When thou sittest to eat with a ruler, thou shall consider well, what is before thee;
For, each one, taketh beforehand, his own supper, in your eating, and, one, indeed, is hungry, whereas, another, is drinking to excess.
But be taking heed unto yourselves, lest once your hearts be made heavy - with debauch and drunkenness and anxieties about livelihood, and that day come upon you suddenly,
But, whensoever thou hast been invited, pass on and fall back into the last place, that, whensoever he that hath invited thee shall come, he may say unto thee - Friend! come close up, higher. Then, shalt thou have honour before all who are reclining together with thee.
For, the tippler and the glutton, shall come to poverty, and, rags, shall Slumber put on!
Lo! this became the iniquity of Sodom thy sister, - Pride, fulness of bread, and careless security came to her and to her daughters, And the hand of the oppressed and the needy, she strengthened not.
To eat honey in abundance, is not good, nor is, searching out their own honour, an honourable thing.
Do not be among them who tipple with wine, - among them who are gluttons;
Ye, therefore, be not seeking what ye shall eat and what ye shall drink, and be not held in suspense;
For, as they were in those days that were before the flood, feeding and drinking, marrying and being given in marriage, - until the day Noah entered into the ark;
So the king died, and was brought into Samaria, - and they buried the king, in Samaria.
If one of them who believe not invite you, and ye are disposed to go, whatsoever is set before you, eat, - asking no question, for conscience sake.
Therefore hath the land become unclean, and I have visited the iniquity thereof upon it, - and the land hath vomited her inhabitants.
Beloved! I exhort you, as sojourners and pilgrims, to abstain from fleshly covetings, such as take the field against the soul;
