16 Bible Verses about overeating

Have you found honey? eat only as much as is sufficient for you, lest you be filled with it, and vomit it.

When you sit to eat with a ruler, consider diligently what is before you:

For in eating every one takes first his own supper: and one is hungry, and another is drunken.

And put a knife to your throat, if you are a man given to appetite.

And take heed to yourselves, lest at any time your hearts be weighed down with carousing, and drunkenness, and cares of this life, and so that day come upon you unawares.

But when you are bidden, go and sit down in the lowest place; that when he that bade you come, he may say unto you, Friend, go up higher: then shall you have honor in the presence of them that sit at table with you.

For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty: and drowsiness shall clothe a man with rags.

Behold, this was the iniquity of your sister Sodom, pride, fullness of food, and abundance of idleness was in her and in her daughters, neither did she strengthen the hand of the poor and needy.

It is not good to eat much honey: so for men to search out their own glory is not glory.

Be not among winebibbers; among gluttonous eaters of meat:

And seek you not what you shall eat, or what you shall drink, neither be of anxious mind.

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

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

If any of them that believe not bid you to a feast, and you be disposed to go; whatsoever is set before you, eat, asking no question for conscience's sake.

And the land is defiled: therefore I do visit the iniquity thereof upon it, and the land itself vomits out its inhabitants.

Dearly beloved, I beseech you as aliens and exiles, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;