Gluttony

Gluttony is warned against in Proverbs and elsewhere in Scripture. This page lists verses on gluttony, appetite, restraint, the body and food, and living not by bread alone.

Warnings against gluttony

• Proverbs 23:20-21
  ²⁰Be not among winebibbers; among riotous eaters of flesh: ²¹For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty: and drowsiness shall clothe a man with rags.
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• Proverbs 23:2
  And put a knife to thy throat, if thou be a man given to appetite.
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• Proverbs 28:7
  Whoso keepeth the law is a wise son: but he that is a companion of riotous men shameth his father.
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• 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.
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Appetite as a god

• Philippians 3:19
  Whose end is destruction, whose God is their belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who mind earthly things.)
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• Romans 16:18
  For they that are such serve not our Lord Jesus Christ, but their own belly; and by good words and fair speeches deceive the hearts of the simple.
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Restraint

• Proverbs 25:16
  Hast thou found honey? eat so much as is sufficient for thee, lest thou be filled therewith, and vomit it.
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• 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.
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• 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.
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The body and food

• 1 Corinthians 6:12-13
  ¹²All 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. ¹³Meats for the belly, and the belly for meats: but God shall destroy both it and them. Now the body is not for fornication, but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body.
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• 1 Corinthians 6:19-20
  ¹⁹What? 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? ²⁰For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God’s.
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• 1 Corinthians 10:31
  Whether therefore ye eat, or drink, or whatsoever ye do, do all to the glory of God.
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Not by bread alone

• Matthew 4:4
  But he answered and said, It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God.
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• John 6:35
  And Jesus said unto them, I am the bread of life: he that cometh to me shall never hunger; and he that believeth on me shall never thirst.
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See also

• Self-control
• Fasting
• Alcohol

Notes

1. Verses are quoted in the translation chosen in the Translation menu at the top of the page. See Translations for sources and copyright notices.
2. Each reference links to the full chapter so the verse can be read in context.