16 Bible Verses about overeating
Most Relevant Verses
Have you found honey? Eat only as much as is enough for you, lest you be filled with it and vomit it.
When you sit down to eat with a ruler, look carefully at what is before you;
For in eating each one takes his own supper first; and one is hungry, and another drunken.
and put a knife to your throat, if you are a man given to appetite.
And take heed to yourselves, lest your hearts are weighed down with headaches and drinking and anxieties of this life; and that day should suddenly come on you;
But when you are invited, go and recline in the lowest place, so that when he who invited you comes, he may say to you, Friend, go up higher. Then glory shall be to you before those reclining with you.
for the drunkard and the glutton lose all, and sleepiness shall clothe a man with rags.
Behold, this was the iniquity of your sister Sodom; pride. Fullness of bread and abundance of idleness was in her and in her daughters. Nor did she strengthen the hand of the poor and needy.
For as in the days before the flood, they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day Noah entered into the ark.
If any of those who do not believe invite you to a feast, and if you are disposed to go, eat whatever is set before you, asking no questions for conscience' sake.
And the land is defiled. Therefore I visit its wickedness on it, and the land itself vomits out those who live in it.
Dearly beloved, I exhort you as temporary residents and pilgrims to abstain from fleshly lusts which war against the soul,