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Eating Too Much
Proverbs 23:20-21 ESV / 28 helpful votes
Be not among drunkards or among gluttonous eaters of meat, for the drunkard and the glutton will come to poverty, and slumber will clothe them with rags.
Philippians 3:19 ESV / 23 helpful votes
Their end is destruction, their god is their belly, and they glory in their shame, with minds set on earthly things.
Galatians 5:21 ESV / 19 helpful votes
Envy, drunkenness, orgies, and things like these. I warn you, as I warned you before, that those who do such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.
Proverbs 23:2 ESV / 17 helpful votes
And put a knife to your throat if you are given to appetite.
Genesis 1:29 ESV / 12 helpful votes
And God said, “Behold, I have given you every plant yielding seed that is on the face of all the earth, and every tree with seed in its fruit. You shall have them for food.
1 John 1:9 ESV / 9 helpful votes
If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
Genesis 1:30 ESV / 9 helpful votes
And to every beast of the earth and to every bird of the heavens and to everything that creeps on the earth, everything that has the breath of life, I have given every green plant for food.” And it was so.
Genesis 9:3 ESV / 7 helpful votes
Every moving thing that lives shall be food for you. And as I gave you the green plants, I give you everything.
1 Corinthians 6:13 ESV / 5 helpful votes
“Food is meant for the stomach and the stomach for food”—and God will destroy both one and the other. The body is not meant for sexual immorality, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body.
Genesis 2:9 ESV / 5 helpful votes
And out of the ground the Lord God made to spring up every tree that is pleasant to the sight and good for food. The tree of life was in the midst of the garden, and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.
Revelation 17:8 ESV / 4 helpful votes
The beast that you saw was, and is not, and is about to rise from the bottomless pit and go to destruction. And the dwellers on earth whose names have not been written in the book of life from the foundation of the world will marvel to see the beast, because it was and is not and is to come.
John 6:63 ESV / 4 helpful votes
It is the Spirit who gives life; the flesh is no help at all. The words that I have spoken to you are spirit and life.
Revelation 1:5-6 ESV / 3 helpful votes
And from Jesus Christ the faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead, and the ruler of kings on earth. To him who loves us and has freed us from our sins by his blood and made us a kingdom, priests to his God and Father, to him be glory and dominion forever and ever. Amen.
2 Peter 3:9 ESV / 3 helpful votes
The Lord is not slow to fulfill his promise as some count slowness, but is patient toward you, not wishing that any should perish, but that all should reach repentance.
1 Corinthians 4:5 ESV / 3 helpful votes
Therefore do not pronounce judgment before the time, before the Lord comes, who will bring to light the things now hidden in darkness and will disclose the purposes of the heart. Then each one will receive his commendation from God.
John 15:7 ESV / 3 helpful votes
If you abide in me, and my words abide in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be done for you.
Luke 7:34 ESV / 3 helpful votes
The Son of Man has come eating and drinking, and you say, ‘Look at him! A glutton and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners!’
Proverbs 20:1 ESV / 3 helpful votes
Wine is a mocker, strong drink a brawler, and whoever is led astray by it is not wise.
Leviticus 3:17 ESV / 3 helpful votes
It shall be a statute forever throughout your generations, in all your dwelling places, that you eat neither fat nor blood.”
Luke 5:32 ESV / 2 helpful votes
I have not come to call the righteous but sinners to repentance.”
Luke 1:1-80 ESV / 2 helpful votes
Inasmuch as many have undertaken to compile a narrative of the things that have been accomplished among us, just as those who from the beginning were eyewitnesses and ministers of the word have delivered them to us, it seemed good to me also, having followed all things closely for some time past, to write an orderly account for you, most excellent Theophilus, that you may have certainty concerning the things you have been taught. In the days of Herod, king of Judea, there was a priest named Zechariah, of the division of Abijah. And he had a wife from the daughters of Aaron, and her name was Elizabeth. …
Genesis 3:11 ESV / 2 helpful votes
He said, “Who told you that you were naked? Have you eaten of the tree of which I commanded you not to eat?”
Romans 12:1-2 ESV / 1 helpful vote
I appeal to you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship. Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.
Luke 5:39 ESV / 1 helpful vote
And no one after drinking old wine desires new, for he says, ‘The old is good.’”
Luke 1:15 ESV / 1 helpful vote
For he will be great before the Lord. And he must not drink wine or strong drink, and he will be filled with the Holy Spirit, even from his mother’s womb.
Matthew 24:30 ESV / 1 helpful vote
Then will appear in heaven the sign of the Son of Man, and then all the tribes of the earth will mourn, and they will see the Son of Man coming on the clouds of heaven with power and great glory.
Matthew 24:1-51 ESV / 1 helpful vote
Jesus left the temple and was going away, when his disciples came to point out to him the buildings of the temple. But he answered them, “You see all these, do you not? Truly, I say to you, there will not be left here one stone upon another that will not be thrown down.” As he sat on the Mount of Olives, the disciples came to him privately, saying, “Tell us, when will these things be, and what will be the sign of your coming and of the close of the age?” And Jesus answered them, “See that no one leads you astray. For many will come in my name, saying, ‘I am the Christ,’ and they will lead many astray. …
Matthew 4:2 ESV / 1 helpful vote
And after fasting forty days and forty nights, he was hungry.
Jonah 4:1 ESV / 1 helpful vote
But it displeased Jonah exceedingly, and he was angry.
Jonah 3:4 ESV / 1 helpful vote
Jonah began to go into the city, going a day’s journey. And he called out, “Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown!”
Hosea 6:6 ESV / 1 helpful vote
For I desire steadfast love and not sacrifice, the knowledge of God rather than burnt offerings.
Daniel 1:18-20 ESV / 1 helpful vote
At the end of the time, when the king had commanded that they should be brought in, the chief of the eunuchs brought them in before Nebuchadnezzar. And the king spoke with them, and among all of them none was found like Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah. Therefore they stood before the king. And in every matter of wisdom and understanding about which the king inquired of them, he found them ten times better than all the magicians and enchanters that were in all his kingdom.
Daniel 1:1-21 ESV / 1 helpful vote
In the third year of the reign of Jehoiakim king of Judah, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came to Jerusalem and besieged it. And the Lord gave Jehoiakim king of Judah into his hand, with some of the vessels of the house of God. And he brought them to the land of Shinar, to the house of his god, and placed the vessels in the treasury of his god. Then the king commanded Ashpenaz, his chief eunuch, to bring some of the people of Israel, both of the royal family and of the nobility, youths without blemish, of good appearance and skillful in all wisdom, endowed with knowledge, understanding learning, and competent to stand in the king’s palace, and to teach them the literature and language of the Chaldeans. The king assigned them a daily portion of the food that the king ate, and of the wine that he drank. They were to be educated for three years, and at the end of that time they were to stand before the king. …
Ezekiel 36:27 ESV / 1 helpful vote
And I will put my Spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes and be careful to obey my rules.
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