eating too much food

The 17 most-voted verses about eating too much food, from 11 books, ranked by the OpenBible.info community.

Do not join those who drink too much wine or gorge themselves on meat.

Proverbs 23:20 (BSB)

Be not among winebibbers; among riotous eaters of flesh:

Proverbs 23:20 (KJV)

Don’t be among ones drinking too much wine, or those who gorge themselves on meat;

Proverbs 23:20 (WEB)

If your brother is distressed by what you eat, you are no longer acting in love. Do not by your eating destroy your brother, for whom Christ died.

Romans 14:15 (BSB)

But if thy brother be grieved with [thy] meat, now walkest thou not charitably. Destroy not him with thy meat, for whom Christ died.

Romans 14:15 (KJV)

Yet if because of food your brother is grieved, you walk no longer in love. Don’t destroy with your food him for whom Christ died.

Romans 14:15 (WEB)

Their end is destruction, their god is their belly, and their glory is in their shame. Their minds are set on earthly things.

Philippians 3:19 (BSB)

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

Philippians 3:19 (KJV)

whose end is destruction, whose god is the belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who think about earthly things.

Philippians 3:19 (WEB)

and put a knife to your throat if you possess a great appetite.

Proverbs 23:2 (BSB)

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

Proverbs 23:2 (KJV)

put a knife to your throat if you are a man given to appetite.

Proverbs 23:2 (WEB)

“Everything is permissible for me,” but not everything is beneficial. “Everything is permissible for me,” but I will not be mastered by anything.

1 Corinthians 6:12 (BSB)

All things are lawful unto me, but all things are not expedient: all things are lawful for me, but I will not be brought under the power of any.

1 Corinthians 6:12 (KJV)

“All things are lawful for me,” but not all things are expedient. “All things are lawful for me,” but I will not be brought under the power of anything.

1 Corinthians 6:12 (WEB)

For you, brothers, were called to freedom; but do not use your freedom as an opportunity for the flesh. Rather, serve one another in love.

Galatians 5:13 (BSB)

For, brethren, ye have been called unto liberty; only [use] not liberty for an occasion to the flesh, but by love serve one another.

Galatians 5:13 (KJV)

For you, brothers, were called for freedom. Only don’t use your freedom as an opportunity for the flesh, but through love be servants to one another.

Galatians 5:13 (WEB)

I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven. Whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth will be loosed in heaven.”

Matthew 16:19 (BSB)

And I will give unto thee the keys of the kingdom of heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt bind on earth shall be bound in heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven.

Matthew 16:19 (KJV)

I will give to you the keys of the Kingdom of Heaven, and whatever you bind on earth will have been bound in heaven; and whatever you release on earth will have been released in heaven.”

Matthew 16:19 (WEB)

But the one who has doubts is condemned if he eats, because his eating is not from faith; and everything that is not from faith is sin.

Romans 14:23 (BSB)

And he that doubteth is damned if he eat, because [he eateth] not of faith: for whatsoever [is] not of faith is sin.

Romans 14:23 (KJV)

But he who doubts is condemned if he eats, because it isn’t of faith; and whatever is not of faith is sin.

Romans 14:23 (WEB)

For we do not have a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses, but we have one who was tempted in every way that we are, yet was without sin.

Hebrews 4:15 (BSB)

For we have not an high priest which cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities; but was in all points tempted like as [we are, yet] without sin.

Hebrews 4:15 (KJV)

For we don’t have a high priest who can’t be touched with the feeling of our infirmities, but one who has been in all points tempted like we are, yet without sin.

Hebrews 4:15 (WEB)

So he got up and ate and drank. And strengthened by that food, he walked forty days and forty nights until he reached Horeb, the mountain of God.

1 Kings 19:8 (BSB)

And he arose, and did eat and drink, and went in the strength of that meat forty days and forty nights unto Horeb the mount of God.

1 Kings 19:8 (KJV)

He arose, and ate and drank, and went in the strength of that food forty days and forty nights to Horeb, God’s Mountain.

1 Kings 19:8 (WEB)

Wine is a mocker, strong drink is a brawler, and whoever is led astray by them is not wise.

Proverbs 20:1 (BSB)

Wine [is] a mocker, strong drink [is] raging: and whosoever is deceived thereby is not wise.

Proverbs 20:1 (KJV)

Wine is a mocker and beer is a brawler. Whoever is led astray by them is not wise.

Proverbs 20:1 (WEB)

These also stagger from wine and stumble from strong drink: Priests and prophets reel from strong drink and are befuddled by wine. They stumble because of strong drink, muddled in their visions and stumbling in their judgments.

Isaiah 28:7 (BSB)

¶ But they also have erred through wine, and through strong drink are out of the way; the priest and the prophet have erred through strong drink, they are swallowed up of wine, they are out of the way through strong drink; they err in vision, they stumble [in] judgment.

Isaiah 28:7 (KJV)

They also reel with wine, and stagger with strong drink. The priest and the prophet reel with strong drink. They are swallowed up by wine. They stagger with strong drink. They err in vision. They stumble in judgment.

Isaiah 28:7 (WEB)

After fasting forty days and forty nights, He was hungry.

Matthew 4:2 (BSB)

And when he had fasted forty days and forty nights, he was afterward an hungred.

Matthew 4:2 (KJV)

When he had fasted forty days and forty nights, he was hungry afterward.

Matthew 4:2 (WEB)

Truly I tell you, whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth will be loosed in heaven.

Matthew 18:18 (BSB)

Verily I say unto you, Whatsoever ye shall bind on earth shall be bound in heaven: and whatsoever ye shall loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven.

Matthew 18:18 (KJV)

Most certainly I tell you, whatever things you bind on earth will have been bound in heaven, and whatever things you release on earth will have been released in heaven.

Matthew 18:18 (WEB)

Do not deprive each other, except by mutual consent and for a time, so you may devote yourselves to prayer. Then come together again, so that Satan will not tempt you through your lack of self-control.

1 Corinthians 7:5 (BSB)

Defraud ye not one the other, except [it be] with consent for a time, that ye may give yourselves to fasting and prayer; and come together again, that Satan tempt you not for your incontinency.

1 Corinthians 7:5 (KJV)

Don’t deprive one another, unless it is by consent for a season, that you may give yourselves to fasting and prayer, and may be together again, that Satan doesn’t tempt you because of your lack of self-control.

1 Corinthians 7:5 (WEB)

Do not get drunk on wine, which leads to reckless indiscretion. Instead, be filled with the Spirit.

Ephesians 5:18 (BSB)

And be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess; but be filled with the Spirit;

Ephesians 5:18 (KJV)

Don’t be drunken with wine, in which is dissipation, but be filled with the Spirit,

Ephesians 5:18 (WEB)

If anyone comes to you but does not bring this teaching, do not receive him into your home or even greet him.

2 John 1:10 (BSB)

If there come any unto you, and bring not this doctrine, receive him not into [your] house, neither bid him God speed:

2 John 1:10 (KJV)

If anyone comes to you and doesn’t bring this teaching, don’t receive him into your house, and don’t welcome him,

2 John 1:10 (WEB)

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