Bible Verses About Being Fat
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for being fat, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 1,144 votes, led by Ecclesiastes 6:9. Each passage links to its verse page or the interactive map; scripture is the King James Version.
Top verses about Being Fat
Ecclesiastes 6:9114 votes
Better is the sight of the eyes than the wandering of the desire: this is also vanity and vexation of spirit.
1 Corinthians 3:17107 votes
If any man defile the temple of God, him shall God destroy; for the temple of God is holy, which temple ye are.
Philippians 3:18-2095 votes
(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:
Romans 12:1-293 votes
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.
Daniel 1:1273 votes
Prove thy servants, I beseech thee, ten days; and let them give us pulse to eat, and water to drink.
Genesis 1:2946 votes
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.
Leviticus 3:1743 votes
It shall be a perpetual statute for your generations throughout all your dwellings, that ye eat neither fat nor blood.
3 John 1:242 votes
Beloved, I wish above all things that thou mayest prosper and be in health, even as thy soul prospereth.
Deuteronomy 32:1541 votes
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.
Isaiah 55:1-339 votes
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.
Luke 7:3437 votes
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!
Leviticus 7:2331 votes
Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, Ye shall eat no manner of fat, of ox, or of sheep, or of goat.
Job 15:2726 votes
Because he covereth his face with his fatness, and maketh collops of fat on his flanks.
John 10:1023 votes
The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly.
Deuteronomy 14:1-2922 votes
Ye are the children of the Lord your God: ye shall not cut yourselves, nor make any baldness between your eyes for the dead.
1 Timothy 5:2321 votes
Drink no longer water, but use a little wine for thy stomach’s sake and thine often infirmities.
Judges 3:1719 votes
And he brought the present unto Eglon king of Moab: and Eglon was a very fat man.
Genesis 27:3918 votes
And Isaac his father answered and said unto him, Behold, thy dwelling shall be the fatness of the earth, and of the dew of heaven from above;
Matthew 23:2518 votes
Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye make clean the outside of the cup and of the platter, but within they are full of extortion and excess.
Ephesians 5:18-2018 votes
And be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess; but be filled with the Spirit;
1 Corinthians 3:16-1717 votes
Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?
Proverbs 21:2016 votes
There is treasure to be desired and oil in the dwelling of the wise; but a foolish man spendeth it up.
Matthew 7:1-316 votes
Judge not, that ye be not judged.
Daniel 9:1-2715 votes
In the first year of Darius the son of Ahasuerus, of the seed of the Medes, which was made king over the realm of the Chaldeans;
Genesis 45:1814 votes
And take your father and your households, and come unto me: and I will give you the good of the land of Egypt, and ye shall eat the fat of the land.
What does the Bible say about being fat?
Readers most often cite Ecclesiastes 6:9 on the subject of being fat. Across 1,144 votes, 25 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including 1 Corinthians 3:17, Philippians 3:18-20, Romans 12:1-2. This page lists all 25 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.