16 Bible Verses about overeating
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Hast thou found honey? eat so much as is sufficient for thee, Lest thou be filled therewith, and vomit it.
When thou sittest to eat with a ruler, Consider diligently him that is before thee;
for in your eating each one taketh before other his own supper; and one is hungry, and another is drunken.
And put a knife to thy throat, If thou be a man given to appetite.
But take heed to yourselves, lest haply your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting, and drunkenness, and cares of this life, and that day come on you suddenly as a snare:
But when thou art bidden, go and sit down in the lowest place; that when he that hath bidden thee cometh, he may say to thee, Friend, go up higher: then shalt thou have glory in the presence of all that sit at meat with thee.
For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty; And drowsiness will clothe a man with rags.
Behold, this was the iniquity of thy sister Sodom: pride, fulness of bread, and prosperous ease 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 grievous.
And seek not ye what ye shall eat, and what ye shall drink, neither be ye of doubtful mind.
For as in those days which were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noah entered into the ark,
If one of them that believe not biddeth you to a feast , and ye are disposed to go; whatsoever is set before you, eat, asking no question for conscience'sake.
And the land is defiled: therefore I do visit the iniquity thereof upon it, and the land vomiteth out her inhabitants.
Beloved, I beseech you as sojourners and pilgrims, to abstain from fleshly lust, which war against the soul;