Bible Verses About Obesity
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for obesity, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 4,105 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 Obesity
Proverbs 23:20-21436 votes
Be not among winebibbers; among riotous eaters of flesh:
1 Corinthians 6:19-20408 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 23:2278 votes
And put a knife to thy throat, if thou be a man given to appetite.
Proverbs 28:7185 votes
Whoso keepeth the law is a wise son: but he that is a companion of riotous men shameth his father.
Philippians 3:19149 votes
Whose end is destruction, whose God is their belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who mind earthly things.)
Proverbs 25:16145 votes
Hast thou found honey? eat so much as is sufficient for thee, lest thou be filled therewith, and vomit it.
Proverbs 30:8133 votes
Remove far from me vanity and lies: give me neither poverty nor riches; feed me with food convenient for me:
Proverbs 25:27120 votes
It is not good to eat much honey: so for men to search their own glory is not glory.
Deuteronomy 21:20118 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.
Proverbs 23:20118 votes
Be not among winebibbers; among riotous eaters of flesh:
Philippians 3:18-19116 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:
Galatians 5:16113 votes
This I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh.
1 Corinthians 9:27101 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.
Luke 21:34100 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.
Galatians 5:22-2387 votes
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith,
Titus 1:1285 votes
One of themselves, even a prophet of their own, said, The Cretians are alway liars, evil beasts, slow bellies.
1 Corinthians 10:3184 votes
Whether therefore ye eat, or drink, or whatsoever ye do, do all to the glory of God.
Isaiah 55:1-281 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.
Titus 2:3-579 votes
The aged women likewise, that they be in behaviour as becometh holiness, not false accusers, not given to much wine, teachers of good things;
3 John 1:277 votes
Beloved, I wish above all things that thou mayest prosper and be in health, even as thy soul prospereth.
Galatians 5:22-2471 votes
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith,
1 Timothy 4:862 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.
John 6:458 votes
And the passover, a feast of the Jews, was nigh.
1 Corinthians 9:24-2754 votes
Know ye not that they which run in a race run all, but one receiveth the prize? So run, that ye may obtain.
1 Corinthians 10:1345 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.
What does the Bible say about obesity?
Readers most often cite Proverbs 23:20-21 on the subject of obesity. Across 4,105 votes, 25 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including 1 Corinthians 6:19-20, Proverbs 23:2, Proverbs 28:7. This page lists all 25 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.