Gaining weight

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• Proverbs 23:20–21

  Be not among winebibbers; among riotous eaters of flesh: For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty: and drowsiness shall clothe a man with rags.

• 1 Corinthians 6:19–20

  What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own? For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's.

• Proverbs 28:7

  Whoso keepeth the law is a wise son: but he that is a companion of riotous men shameth his father.

• Proverbs 25:16

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

• Proverbs 23:2

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

• 1 Timothy 4:8

  For bodily exercise profiteth little: but godliness is profitable unto all things, having promise of the life that now is, and of that which is to come.

• Deuteronomy 21:20

  And they shall say unto the elders of his city, This our son is stubborn and rebellious, he will not obey our voice; he is a glutton, and a drunkard.

• Philippians 3:19

  Whose end is destruction, whose God is their belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who mind earthly things.)

• Proverbs 25:27

  It is not good to eat much honey: so for men to search their own glory is not glory.

• Ezekiel 16:49

  Behold, this was the iniquity of thy sister Sodom, pride, fulness of bread, and abundance of idleness was in her and in her daughters, neither did she strengthen the hand of the poor and needy.

• Philippians 3:18–19

  (For many walk, of whom I have told you often, and now tell you even weeping, that they are the enemies of the cross of Christ: Whose end is destruction, whose God is their belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who mind earthly things.)

• Deuteronomy 32:15

  But Jeshurun waxed fat, and kicked: thou art waxen fat, thou art grown thick, thou art covered with fatness; then he forsook God which made him, and lightly esteemed the Rock of his salvation.

• 1 Corinthians 3:16–17

  Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you? If any man defile the temple of God, him shall God destroy; for the temple of God is holy, which temple ye are.

• Ecclesiastes 10:17

  Blessed art thou, O land, when thy king is the son of nobles, and thy princes eat in due season, for strength, and not for drunkenness!

• 1 Samuel 16:7

  But the LORD said unto Samuel, Look not on his countenance, or on the height of his stature; because I have refused him: for the LORD seeth not as man seeth; for man looketh on the outward appearance, but the LORD looketh on the heart.

• 1 Corinthians 9:27

  But I keep under my body, and bring it into subjection: lest that by any means, when I have preached to others, I myself should be a castaway.

• Galatians 5:16

  This I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh.

• Luke 21:34

  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.

• Proverbs 30:8–9

  Remove far from me vanity and lies: give me neither poverty nor riches; feed me with food convenient for me: Lest I be full, and deny thee, and say, Who is the LORD? or lest I be poor, and steal, and take the name of my God in vain.

• Titus 1:12

  One of themselves, even a prophet of their own, said, The Cretians are alway liars, evil beasts, slow bellies.

• Proverbs 28:25

  He that is of a proud heart stirreth up strife: but he that putteth his trust in the LORD shall be made fat.

• 1 Corinthians 10:13

  There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it.

• Philippians 4:13

  I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me.

• Daniel 1:12–15

  Prove thy servants, I beseech thee, ten days; and let them give us pulse to eat, and water to drink. Then let our countenances be looked upon before thee, and the countenance of the children that eat of the portion of the king's meat: and as thou seest, deal with thy servants. So he consented to them in this matter, and proved them ten days. …

• Proverbs 13:25

  The righteous eateth to the satisfying of his soul: but the belly of the wicked shall want.

• Proverbs 23:1–3

  When thou sittest to eat with a ruler, consider diligently what is before thee: And put a knife to thy throat, if thou be a man given to appetite. Be not desirous of his dainties: for they are deceitful meat.

• 1 Corinthians 3:17

  If any man defile the temple of God, him shall God destroy; for the temple of God is holy, which temple ye are.

• Proverbs 25:28

  He that hath no rule over his own spirit is like a city that is broken down, and without walls.

• Psalms 32:5

  I acknowledged my sin unto thee, and mine iniquity have I not hid. I said, I will confess my transgressions unto the LORD; and thou forgavest the iniquity of my sin. Selah.

• Daniel 1:15

  And at the end of ten days their countenances appeared fairer and fatter in flesh than all the children which did eat the portion of the king's meat.