16 Bible Verses about overeating

Hast thou found honey? eat so much as is sufficient for thee, lest thou be filled with it, and vomit it.

When thou sittest to eat with a ruler, consider diligently what is before thee:

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

And put a knife to thy throat, if thou art a man given to appetite.

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

But when thou art invited, go and sit down in the lowest room; that when he that invited thee cometh, he may say to thee, Friend, go up higher: then shalt thou have honor in the presence of them that sit at table with thee.

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

Behold, this was the iniquity of thy sister Sodom, pride, fullness of bread, 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 their own glory is not glory.

Be not among wine-bibbers; among riotous eaters of flesh:

And seek ye not what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink, neither be ye of doubtful 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 invites you to a feast, and ye are disposed to go; whatever is set before you, eat, asking no question on account of conscience.

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

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