16 Bible Verses about overeating
Most Relevant Verses
If you find honey, eat only what you need;
otherwise, you’ll get sick from it and vomit.
When you sit down to dine with a ruler,
consider carefully what is before you,
For at the meal, each one eats his own supper ahead of others. So one person is hungry while another gets drunk!
and put a knife to your throat
if you have a big appetite;
“Be on your guard, so that your minds are not dulled from carousing, drunkenness, and worries of life, or that day will come on you unexpectedly
“But when you are invited, go and recline in the lowest place, so that when the one who invited you comes, he will say to you, ‘Friend, move up higher.’ You will then be honored in the presence of all the other guests.
For the drunkard and the glutton will become poor,
and grogginess will clothe them in rags.
Now this was the iniquity of your sister Sodom: she and her daughters had pride, plenty of food, and comfortable security, but didn’t support the poor and needy.
Don’t associate with those who drink too much wine
or with those who gorge themselves on meat.
Don’t keep striving for what you should eat and what you should drink, and don’t be anxious.
For in those days before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day Noah boarded the ark.
If one of the unbelievers invites you over and you want to go, eat everything that is set before you, without raising questions of conscience.
The land has become defiled, so I am punishing it for its sin, and the land will vomit out its inhabitants.
Dear friends, I urge you as strangers and temporary residents to abstain from fleshly desires that war against you.