9 Bible Verses about Stomachs
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"Food is meant for the stomach, and the stomach for food"? Yes, but God will soon put an end both to the one and to the other. The body, however, exists not for immorality, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body;
"For just as Jonah was three days and three nights in the sea-monster's belly, so the Son of man will be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.
"Are even you without understanding?" he said. "Do you not perceive that nothing whatever from without can defile a man by entering him, because it does not go into his heart, but into his belly, and passes away, ejected from him?" By these words he pronounced all foods clean.
"Do you not know how all that goes into the mouth passes into the stomach and is afterward evacuated;
"And he was longing to be filled with the husks which the swine were eating, but no one gave him any.
Do not continue to drink nothing but water, but take a little wine for your stomach's sake, and your frequent attacks of illness.
And I went to the angel and told him to give me the little book. And he said to me. "Take it, and eat it up; it will make your belly bitter, but in your mouth it will be as sweet as honey." I took the little book out of the hand of the angel, and ate it up, and it was in my mouth sweet like honey; but when I had eaten it, my belly was made bitter.
Their end is destruction, their belly is their god, their glory is in their shame, and their minds are set on earthly things.
Turn away from them. For men of that stamp are not the slaves of Christ, but are slaves to their own appetites. By their smooth and fair speech they beguile the hearts of the innocent.
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