Obesity

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Verses

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  1. Do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own;
  2. …you were bought at a price. Therefore glorify God with your body.
  3. Do not join those who drink too much wine or gorge themselves on meat.
  4. For the drunkard and the glutton will come to poverty, and drowsiness will clothe them in rags.
  5. Keep falsehood and deceitful words far from me. Give me neither poverty nor riches; feed me with the bread that is my portion.
  6. Their end is destruction, their god is their belly, and their glory is in their shame. Their minds are set on earthly things.
  7. …and put a knife to your throat if you possess a great appetite.
  8. So I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh.
  9. But watch yourselves, or your hearts will be weighed down by dissipation, drunkenness, and the worries of life—and that day will spring upon you suddenly like a snare.