What Does the Bible Say About Gaining Weight?

Proverbs 23:20-21 ESV / 220 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.

1 Corinthians 6:19-20 ESV / 169 helpful votes

Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, whom you have from God? You are not your own, for you were bought with a price. So glorify God in your body.

Proverbs 28:7 ESV / 138 helpful votes

The one who keeps the law is a son with understanding, but a companion of gluttons shames his father.

Proverbs 25:16 ESV / 134 helpful votes

If you have found honey, eat only enough for you, lest you have your fill of it and vomit it.

Proverbs 23:2 ESV / 130 helpful votes

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

1 Timothy 4:8 ESV / 113 helpful votes

For while bodily training is of some value, godliness is of value in every way, as it holds promise for the present life and also for the life to come.

Deuteronomy 21:20 ESV / 108 helpful votes

And they shall say to 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 ESV / 104 helpful votes

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

Proverbs 25:27 ESV / 93 helpful votes

It is not good to eat much honey, nor is it glorious to seek one's own glory.

Ezekiel 16:49 ESV / 76 helpful votes

Behold, this was the guilt of your sister Sodom: she and her daughters had pride, excess of food, and prosperous ease, but did not aid the poor and needy.

Philippians 3:18-19 ESV / 68 helpful votes

For many, of whom I have often told you and now tell you even with tears, walk as enemies of the cross of Christ. Their end is destruction, their god is their belly, and they glory in their shame, with minds set on earthly things.

Deuteronomy 32:15 ESV / 52 helpful votes

“But Jeshurun grew fat, and kicked; you grew fat, stout, and sleek; then he forsook God who made him and scoffed at the Rock of his salvation.

1 Corinthians 3:16-17 ESV / 44 helpful votes

Do you not know that you are God's temple and that God's Spirit dwells in you? If anyone destroys God's temple, God will destroy him. For God's temple is holy, and you are that temple.

Ecclesiastes 10:17 ESV / 36 helpful votes

Happy are you, O land, when your king is the son of the nobility, and your princes feast at the proper time, for strength, and not for drunkenness!

1 Corinthians 9:27 ESV / 32 helpful votes

But I discipline my body and keep it under control, lest after preaching to others I myself should be disqualified.

1 Samuel 16:7 ESV / 31 helpful votes

But the Lord said to Samuel, “Do not look on his appearance or on the height of his stature, because I have rejected him. For the Lord sees not as man sees: man looks on the outward appearance, but the Lord looks on the heart.”

Galatians 5:16 ESV / 29 helpful votes

But I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh.

Luke 21:34 ESV / 28 helpful votes

“But watch yourselves lest your hearts be weighed down with dissipation and drunkenness and cares of this life, and that day come upon you suddenly like a trap.

Proverbs 30:8-9 ESV / 28 helpful votes

Remove far from me falsehood and lying; give me neither poverty nor riches; feed me with the food that is needful for me, lest I be full and deny you and say, “Who is the Lord?” or lest I be poor and steal and profane the name of my God.

Titus 1:12 ESV / 24 helpful votes

One of the Cretans, a prophet of their own, said, “Cretans are always liars, evil beasts, lazy gluttons.”

1 Corinthians 10:13 ESV / 18 helpful votes

No temptation has overtaken you that is not common to man. God is faithful, and he will not let you be tempted beyond your ability, but with the temptation he will also provide the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it.

Proverbs 28:25 ESV / 18 helpful votes

A greedy man stirs up strife, but the one who trusts in the Lord will be enriched.

Philippians 4:13 ESV / 16 helpful votes

I can do all things through him who strengthens me.

Daniel 1:12-15 ESV / 16 helpful votes

“Test your servants for ten days; let us be given vegetables to eat and water to drink. Then let our appearance and the appearance of the youths who eat the king's food be observed by you, and deal with your servants according to what you see.” So he listened to them in this matter, and tested them for ten days. At the end of ten days it was seen that they were better in appearance and fatter in flesh than all the youths who ate the king's food.

Proverbs 25:28 ESV / 13 helpful votes

A man without self-control is like a city broken into and left without walls.

1 Corinthians 3:17 ESV / 12 helpful votes

If anyone destroys God's temple, God will destroy him. For God's temple is holy, and you are that temple.

Daniel 1:15 ESV / 12 helpful votes

At the end of ten days it was seen that they were better in appearance and fatter in flesh than all the youths who ate the king's food.

Proverbs 23:1-3 ESV / 12 helpful votes

When you sit down to eat with a ruler, observe carefully what is before you, and put a knife to your throat if you are given to appetite. Do not desire his delicacies, for they are deceptive food.

Proverbs 13:25 ESV / 12 helpful votes

The righteous has enough to satisfy his appetite, but the belly of the wicked suffers want.

Psalm 32:5 ESV / 12 helpful votes

I acknowledged my sin to you, and I did not cover my iniquity; I said, “I will confess my transgressions to the Lord,” and you forgave the iniquity of my sin. Selah

James 1:17 ESV / 9 helpful votes

Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variation or shadow due to change.

Romans 10:17 ESV / 9 helpful votes

So faith comes from hearing, and hearing through the word of Christ.

2 Peter 1:5-6 ESV / 8 helpful votes

For this very reason, make every effort to supplement your faith with virtue, and virtue with knowledge, and knowledge with self-control, and self-control with steadfastness, and steadfastness with godliness,

1 Corinthians 10:31 ESV / 8 helpful votes

So, whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.

John 6:35 ESV / 8 helpful votes

Jesus said to them, “I am the bread of life; whoever comes to me shall not hunger, and whoever believes in me shall never thirst.

Psalm 78:18-31 ESV / 8 helpful votes

They tested God in their heart by demanding the food they craved. They spoke against God, saying, “Can God spread a table in the wilderness? He struck the rock so that water gushed out and streams overflowed. Can he also give bread or provide meat for his people?” Therefore, when the Lord heard, he was full of wrath; a fire was kindled against Jacob; his anger rose against Israel, because they did not believe in God and did not trust his saving power. ...

Psalm 73:7 ESV / 8 helpful votes

Their eyes swell out through fatness; their hearts overflow with follies.

1 John 1:9 ESV / 7 helpful votes

If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

Romans 6:23 ESV / 7 helpful votes

For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Romans 8:9 ESV / 6 helpful votes

You, however, are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if in fact the Spirit of God dwells in you. Anyone who does not have the Spirit of Christ does not belong to him.

Psalm 119:105 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path.

2 Timothy 3:1-5 ESV / 4 helpful votes

But understand this, that in the last days there will come times of difficulty. For people will be lovers of self, lovers of money, proud, arrogant, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, heartless, unappeasable, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not loving good, treacherous, reckless, swollen with conceit, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, having the appearance of godliness, but denying its power. Avoid such people.

1 Timothy 3:8 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Deacons likewise must be dignified, not double-tongued, not addicted to much wine, not greedy for dishonest gain.

Philippians 4:12 ESV / 4 helpful votes

I know how to be brought low, and I know how to abound. In any and every circumstance, I have learned the secret of facing plenty and hunger, abundance and need.

Philippians 3:21 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Who will transform our lowly body to be like his glorious body, by the power that enables him even to subject all things to himself.

Philippians 3:20-21 ESV / 4 helpful votes

But our citizenship is in heaven, and from it we await a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ, who will transform our lowly body to be like his glorious body, by the power that enables him even to subject all things to himself.

Galatians 5:22-23 ESV / 4 helpful votes

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law.

Romans 14:17 ESV / 4 helpful votes

For the kingdom of God is not a matter of eating and drinking but of righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit.

Romans 3:23 ESV / 4 helpful votes

For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,

John 6:27 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Do not work for the food that perishes, but for the food that endures to eternal life, which the Son of Man will give to you. For on him God the Father has set his seal.”

Matthew 4:4 ESV / 4 helpful votes

But he answered, “It is written, “‘Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that comes from the mouth of God.’”

Daniel 1:12-16 ESV / 4 helpful votes

“Test your servants for ten days; let us be given vegetables to eat and water to drink. Then let our appearance and the appearance of the youths who eat the king's food be observed by you, and deal with your servants according to what you see.” So he listened to them in this matter, and tested them for ten days. At the end of ten days it was seen that they were better in appearance and fatter in flesh than all the youths who ate the king's food. So the steward took away their food and the wine they were to drink, and gave them vegetables.

Daniel 1:8-15 ESV / 4 helpful votes

But Daniel resolved that he would not defile himself with the king's food, or with the wine that he drank. Therefore he asked the chief of the eunuchs to allow him not to defile himself. And God gave Daniel favor and compassion in the sight of the chief of the eunuchs, and the chief of the eunuchs said to Daniel, “I fear my lord the king, who assigned your food and your drink; for why should he see that you were in worse condition than the youths who are of your own age? So you would endanger my head with the king.” Then Daniel said to the steward whom the chief of the eunuchs had assigned over Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah, “Test your servants for ten days; let us be given vegetables to eat and water to drink. ...

Daniel 1:5-16 ESV / 4 helpful votes

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. Among these were Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah of the tribe of Judah. And the chief of the eunuchs gave them names: Daniel he called Belteshazzar, Hananiah he called Shadrach, Mishael he called Meshach, and Azariah he called Abednego. But Daniel resolved that he would not defile himself with the king's food, or with the wine that he drank. Therefore he asked the chief of the eunuchs to allow him not to defile himself. And God gave Daniel favor and compassion in the sight of the chief of the eunuchs, ...

Ezekiel 34:16 ESV / 4 helpful votes

I will seek the lost, and I will bring back the strayed, and I will bind up the injured, and I will strengthen the weak, and the fat and the strong I will destroy. I will feed them in justice.

Jeremiah 5:28 ESV / 4 helpful votes

They have grown fat and sleek. They know no bounds in deeds of evil; they judge not with justice the cause of the fatherless, to make it prosper, and they do not defend the rights of the needy.

Ecclesiastes 10:16-17 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Woe to you, O land, when your king is a child, and your princes feast in the morning! Happy are you, O land, when your king is the son of the nobility, and your princes feast at the proper time, for strength, and not for drunkenness!

Proverbs 23:6-8 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Do not eat the bread of a man who is stingy; do not desire his delicacies, for he is like one who is inwardly calculating. “Eat and drink!” he says to you, but his heart is not with you. You will vomit up the morsels that you have eaten, and waste your pleasant words.

Proverbs 13:4 ESV / 4 helpful votes

The soul of the sluggard craves and gets nothing, while the soul of the diligent is richly supplied.

Proverbs 11:25 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Whoever brings blessing will be enriched, and one who waters will himself be watered.

Proverbs 7:18 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Come, let us take our fill of love till morning; let us delight ourselves with love.

Psalm 78:31 ESV / 4 helpful votes

The anger of God rose against them, and he killed the strongest of them and laid low the young men of Israel.

1 Samuel 2:29 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Why then do you scorn my sacrifices and my offerings that I commanded for my dwelling, and honor your sons above me by fattening yourselves on the choicest parts of every offering of my people Israel?’

Exodus 16:21 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Morning by morning they gathered it, each as much as he could eat; but when the sun grew hot, it melted.

Genesis 41:1-57 ESV / 4 helpful votes

After two whole years, Pharaoh dreamed that he was standing by the Nile, and behold, there came up out of the Nile seven cows, attractive and plump, and they fed in the reed grass. And behold, seven other cows, ugly and thin, came up out of the Nile after them, and stood by the other cows on the bank of the Nile. And the ugly, thin cows ate up the seven attractive, plump cows. And Pharaoh awoke. And he fell asleep and dreamed a second time. And behold, seven ears of grain, plump and good, were growing on one stalk. ...

65 Bible Verses about Gaining Weight

Proverbs 23:20-21 ESV / 220 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 Corinthians 6:19-20 ESV / 169 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Proverbs 28:7 ESV / 138 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Proverbs 25:16 ESV / 134 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Proverbs 23:2 ESV / 130 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 Timothy 4:8 ESV / 113 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Deuteronomy 21:20 ESV / 108 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Philippians 3:19 ESV / 104 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Proverbs 25:27 ESV / 93 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Ezekiel 16:49 ESV / 76 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Philippians 3:18-19 ESV / 68 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Deuteronomy 32:15 ESV / 52 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 Corinthians 3:16-17 ESV / 44 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Ecclesiastes 10:17 ESV / 36 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 Corinthians 9:27 ESV / 32 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 Samuel 16:7 ESV / 31 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Galatians 5:16 ESV / 29 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Luke 21:34 ESV / 28 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Proverbs 30:8-9 ESV / 28 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Titus 1:12 ESV / 24 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 Corinthians 10:13 ESV / 18 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Proverbs 28:25 ESV / 18 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Philippians 4:13 ESV / 16 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Daniel 1:12-15 ESV / 16 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Proverbs 25:28 ESV / 13 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 Corinthians 3:17 ESV / 12 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Daniel 1:15 ESV / 12 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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James 1:17 ESV / 9 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Romans 10:17 ESV / 9 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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John 6:35 ESV / 8 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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1 John 1:9 ESV / 7 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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