16 Bible Verses about overeating
Most Relevant Verses
Have you found honey? Eat only what you need,
That you not have it in excess and vomit it.
When you sit down to dine with a ruler,
Consider carefully what is before you,
for in your eating each one takes his own supper first; and one is hungry and another is drunk.
“Be on guard, so that your hearts will not be weighted down with dissipation and drunkenness and the worries of life, and that day will not come on you suddenly like a trap;
But when you are invited, go and recline at the last place, so that when the one who has invited you comes, he may say to you, ‘Friend, move up higher’; then you will have honor in the sight of all who are at the table with you.
For the heavy drinker and the glutton will come to poverty,
And drowsiness will clothe one with rags.
Behold, this was the guilt of your sister Sodom: she and her daughters had arrogance, abundant food and careless ease, but she did not help the poor and needy.
It is not good to eat much honey,
Nor is it glory to search out one’s own glory.
Do not be with heavy drinkers of wine,
Or with gluttonous eaters of meat;
And do not seek what you will eat and what you will drink, and do not keep worrying.
For as in those days before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noah entered the ark,
If one of the unbelievers invites you and you want to go, eat anything that is set before you without asking questions for conscience’ sake.
For the land has become defiled, therefore I have brought its punishment upon it, so the land has spewed out its inhabitants.
Beloved, I urge you as aliens and strangers to abstain from fleshly lusts which wage war against the soul.