Bible Verses About Gaining Weight
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for gaining weight, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 1,796 votes, led by Proverbs 23:20-21. Each passage links to its verse page or the interactive map; scripture is the King James Version.
Top verses about Gaining Weight
Proverbs 23:20-21220 votes
Be not among winebibbers; among riotous eaters of flesh:
1 Corinthians 6:19-20169 votes
What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own?
Proverbs 28:7138 votes
Whoso keepeth the law is a wise son: but he that is a companion of riotous men shameth his father.
Proverbs 25:16134 votes
Hast thou found honey? eat so much as is sufficient for thee, lest thou be filled therewith, and vomit it.
Proverbs 23:2129 votes
And put a knife to thy throat, if thou be a man given to appetite.
1 Timothy 4:8114 votes
For bodily exercise profiteth little: but godliness is profitable unto all things, having promise of the life that now is, and of that which is to come.
Deuteronomy 21:20108 votes
And they shall say unto 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 3:19104 votes
Whose end is destruction, whose God is their belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who mind earthly things.)
Proverbs 25:2793 votes
It is not good to eat much honey: so for men to search their own glory is not glory.
Ezekiel 16:4976 votes
Behold, this was the iniquity of thy sister Sodom, pride, fulness of bread, and abundance of idleness was in her and in her daughters, neither did she strengthen the hand of the poor and needy.
Philippians 3:18-1968 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:
Deuteronomy 32:1552 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.
1 Corinthians 3:16-1744 votes
Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?
Ecclesiastes 10:1735 votes
Blessed art thou, O land, when thy king is the son of nobles, and thy princes eat in due season, for strength, and not for drunkenness!
1 Corinthians 9:2732 votes
But I keep under my body, and bring it into subjection: lest that by any means, when I have preached to others, I myself should be a castaway.
1 Samuel 16:731 votes
But the Lord said unto Samuel, Look not on his countenance, or on the height of his stature; because I have refused him: for the Lord seeth not as man seeth; for man looketh on the outward appearance, but the Lord looketh on the heart.
Galatians 5:1629 votes
This I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh.
Proverbs 30:8-928 votes
Remove far from me vanity and lies: give me neither poverty nor riches; feed me with food convenient for me:
Luke 21:3428 votes
And take heed to yourselves, lest at any time your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting, and drunkenness, and cares of this life, and so that day come upon you unawares.
Titus 1:1224 votes
One of themselves, even a prophet of their own, said, The Cretians are alway liars, evil beasts, slow bellies.
Proverbs 28:2518 votes
He that is of a proud heart stirreth up strife: but he that putteth his trust in the Lord shall be made fat.
1 Corinthians 10:1318 votes
There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it.
Daniel 1:12-1516 votes
Prove thy servants, I beseech thee, ten days; and let them give us pulse to eat, and water to drink.
Philippians 4:1316 votes
I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me.
Psalms 32:512 votes
I acknowledged my sin unto thee, and mine iniquity have I not hid. I said, I will confess my transgressions unto the Lord; and thou forgavest the iniquity of my sin. Selah.
What does the Bible say about gaining weight?
Readers most often cite Proverbs 23:20-21 on the subject of gaining weight. Across 1,796 votes, 25 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including 1 Corinthians 6:19-20, Proverbs 28:7, Proverbs 25:16. This page lists all 25 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.