Proverbs 23:1
When you sit to eat with a ruler, consider diligently what is before you;
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Proverbs 23:1
When you sit to eat with a ruler, consider diligently what is before you;
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Proverbs 23:2
put a knife to your throat if you are a man given to appetite.
Proverbs 23:3
Don’t be desirous of his dainties, since they are deceitful food.
Deuteronomy 21:20
They shall tell 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.”
Proverbs 23:20
Don’t be among ones drinking too much wine, or those who gorge themselves on meat;
Proverbs 23:21
for the drunkard and the glutton shall become poor; and drowsiness clothes them in rags.
Luke 21:34
“So be careful, or your hearts will be loaded down with carousing, drunkenness, and cares of this life, and that day will come on you suddenly.
Numbers 11:32
The people rose up all that day, and all of that night, and all the next day, and gathered the quails. He who gathered least gathered ten homers; and they spread them all out for themselves around the camp.
Philippians 3:19
whose end is destruction, whose god is the belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who think about earthly things.
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Luke 12:22
He said to his disciples, “Therefore I tell you, don’t be anxious for your life, what you will eat, nor yet for your body, what you will wear.
Psalms 141:4
Don’t incline my heart to any evil thing, to practice deeds of wickedness with men who work iniquity. Don’t let me eat of their delicacies.
1 Corinthians 10:31
Whether therefore you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.
Proverbs 25:27
It is not good to eat much honey, nor is it honorable to seek one’s own honor.
Luke 10:8
Into whatever city you enter and they receive you, eat the things that are set before you.
1 Corinthians 10:25
Whatever is sold in the butcher shop, eat, asking no question for the sake of conscience,
1 Timothy 4:4
For every creature of God is good, and nothing is to be rejected if it is received with thanksgiving.
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Proverbs 25:16
Have you found honey? Eat as much as is sufficient for you, lest you eat too much, and vomit it.
1 Corinthians 9:27
but I beat my body and bring it into submission, lest by any means, after I have preached to others, I myself should be disqualified.
Proverbs 21:17
He who loves pleasure will be a poor man. He who loves wine and oil won’t be rich.
Acts 24:25
As he reasoned about righteousness, self-control, and the judgment to come, Felix was terrified, and answered, “Go your way for this time, and when it is convenient for me, I will summon you.”
1 Corinthians 9:25
Every man who strives in the games exercises self-control in all things. Now they do it to receive a corruptible crown, but we an incorruptible.
Galatians 5:23
gentleness, and self-control. Against such things there is no law.
Titus 2:2
that older men should be temperate, sensible, sober minded, sound in faith, in love, and in perseverance,
2 Peter 1:6
and in knowledge, self-control; and in self-control, perseverance; and in perseverance, godliness;
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Proverbs 23:6
Don’t eat the food of him who has a stingy eye, and don’t crave his delicacies,
Proverbs 23:7
for as he thinks about the cost, so he is. “Eat and drink!” he says to you, but his heart is not with you.
Proverbs 23:8
You will vomit up the morsel which you have eaten and waste your pleasant words.
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