Character & Virtues

Bible Verses About being fat

14 key scriptures

Explore what the Bible says about being fat. This collection of 14 key Scripture passages reveals God's wisdom and guidance on this important theme.

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TranslationKey Verse: Ecclesiastes 6:9
King James (KJV)Better is the sight of the eyes than the wandering of the desire: this is also vanity and vexation of spirit. than: Heb. than the walking of the soul

14 Key Scriptures

Better is the sight of the eyes than the wandering of the desire: this is also vanity and vexation of spirit. than: Heb. than the walking of the soul
If any man defile the temple of God, him shall God destroy; for the temple of God is holy, which temple ye are. defile: or, destroy
(For many walk, of whom I have told you often, and now tell you even weeping, that they are the enemies of the cross of Christ:
I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service.
Prove thy servants, I beseech thee, ten days; and let them give us pulse to eat, and water to drink. pulse: Heb. of pulse to eat: Heb. that we may eat, etc
And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat. bearing: Heb. seeding seed yielding: Heb. seeding seed
Beloved, I wish above all things that thou mayest prosper and be in health, even as thy soul prospereth. wish: or, pray
It shall be a perpetual statute for your generations throughout all your dwellings, that ye eat neither fat nor blood.
But Jeshurun waxed fat, and kicked: thou art waxen fat, thou art grown thick, thou art covered with fatness; then he forsook God which made him, and lightly esteemed the Rock of his salvation.
Ho, every one that thirsteth, come ye to the waters, and he that hath no money; come ye, buy, and eat; yea, come, buy wine and milk without money and without price.
The Son of man is come eating and drinking; and ye say, Behold a gluttonous man, and a winebibber, a friend of publicans and sinners!
Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, Ye shall eat no manner of fat, of ox, or of sheep, or of goat.
Because he covereth his face with his fatness, and maketh collops of fat on his flanks.
Ye are the children of the LORD your God: ye shall not cut yourselves, nor make any baldness between your eyes for the dead.

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