16 Bible Verses about overeating
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If you have found honey, eat only enough for you, lest you have your fill of it and vomit it.
When you sit down to eat with a ruler, observe carefully what is before you,
For in eating, each one goes ahead with his own meal. One goes hungry, another gets drunk.
"But watch yourselves lest your hearts be weighed down with dissipation and drunkenness and cares of this life, and that day come upon you suddenly like a trap.
But when you are invited, go and sit in the lowest place, so that when your host comes he may say to you, 'Friend, move up higher.' Then you will be honored in the presence of all who sit at table with you.
for the drunkard and the glutton will come to poverty, and slumber will clothe them with rags
Behold, this was the guilt of your sister Sodom: she and her daughters had pride, excess of food, and prosperous ease, but did not aid the poor and needy.
It is not good to eat much honey, nor is it glorious to seek one's own glory.
And do not seek what you are to eat and what you are to drink, nor be worried.
For as in those days before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day when Noah entered the ark,
If one of the unbelievers invites you to dinner and you are disposed to go, eat whatever is set before you without raising any question on the ground of conscience.
and the land became unclean, so that I punished its iniquity, and the land vomited out its inhabitants.
Beloved, I urge you as sojourners and exiles to abstain from the passions of the flesh, which wage war against your soul.