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Bible Verses about “being overweight”

The Bible contains 50 verses about being overweight across both Old and New Testaments. These scriptures offer guidance and inspiration for your spiritual journey.

1 Corinthians 10:13
873 votes

“No temptation has taken you except what is common to man. God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted above what you are able, but will with the temptation also make the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it.”

1 Peter 5:8
656 votes

“Be sober and self-controlled. Be watchful. Your adversary, the devil, walks around like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour.”

Galatians 5:22
614 votes

“But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faith,”

Galatians 5:23
485 votes

“gentleness, and self-control. Against such things there is no law.”

1 Corinthians 3:16
455 votes

“Don't you know that you are a temple of God, and that God's Spirit lives in you?”

Romans 14:1
384 votes

“Now accept one who is weak in faith, but not for disputes over opinions.”

Romans 14:12
383 votes

“So then each one of us will give account of himself to God.”

Romans 14:21
379 votes

“It is good to not eat meat, drink wine, nor do anything by which your brother stumbles, is offended, or is made weak.”

1 Corinthians 3:17
360 votes

“If anyone destroys the temple of God, God will destroy him; for God's temple is holy, which you are.”

Romans 14:2
359 votes

“One man has faith to eat all things, but he who is weak eats only vegetables.”

Romans 14:3
348 votes

“Don't let him who eats despise him who doesn't eat. Don't let him who doesn't eat judge him who eats, for God has accepted him.”

Romans 15:13
348 votes

“Now may the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that you may abound in hope, in the power of the Holy Spirit.”

Romans 14:14
347 votes

“I know, and am persuaded in the Lord Jesus, that nothing is unclean of itself; except that to him who considers anything to be unclean, to him it is unclean.”

Romans 14:13
345 votes

“Therefore let's not judge one another any more, but judge this rather, that no man put a stumbling block in his brother's way, or an occasion for falling.”

Romans 14:4
342 votes

“Who are you who judge another's servant? To his own lord he stands or falls. Yes, he will be made to stand, for God has power to make him stand.”

Romans 14:10
340 votes

“But you, why do you judge your brother? Or you again, why do you despise your brother? For we will all stand before the judgment seat of Christ.”

Romans 14:11
331 votes

“For it is written, "'As I live,' says the Lord, 'to me every knee will bow. Every tongue will confess to God.'"”

Romans 14:8
330 votes

“For if we live, we live to the Lord. Or if we die, we die to the Lord. If therefore we live or die, we are the Lord's.”

Romans 14:17
327 votes

“for the Kingdom of God is not eating and drinking, but righteousness, peace, and joy in the Holy Spirit.”

Romans 14:19
319 votes

“So then, let us follow after things which make for peace, and things by which we may build one another up.”

Romans 14:5
312 votes

“One man esteems one day as more important. Another esteems every day alike. Let each man be fully assured in his own mind.”

Romans 14:6
312 votes

“He who observes the day, observes it to the Lord; and he who does not observe the day, to the Lord he does not observe it. He who eats, eats to the Lord, for he gives God thanks. He who doesn't eat, to the Lord he doesn't eat, and gives God thanks.”

Romans 14:15
311 votes

“Yet if because of food your brother is grieved, you walk no longer in love. Don't destroy with your food him for whom Christ died.”

Romans 14:23
308 votes

“But he who doubts is condemned if he eats, because it isn't of faith; and whatever is not of faith is sin.”

Romans 14:9
304 votes

“For to this end Christ died, rose, and lived again, that he might be Lord of both the dead and the living.”

Romans 14:22
304 votes

“Do you have faith? Have it to yourself before God. Happy is he who doesn't judge himself in that which he approves.”

Romans 14:16
300 votes

“Then don't let your good be slandered,”

Romans 14:7
298 votes

“For none of us lives to himself, and none dies to himself.”

Romans 14:20
294 votes

“Don't overthrow God's work for food's sake. All things indeed are clean, however it is evil for that man who creates a stumbling block by eating.”

Romans 14:18
292 votes

“For he who serves Christ in these things is acceptable to God and approved by men.”

Hebrews 10:26
282 votes

“For if we sin willfully after we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remains no more a sacrifice for sins,”

1 John 4:4
194 votes

“You are of God, little children, and have overcome them; because greater is he who is in you than he who is in the world.”

Romans 15:4
151 votes

“For whatever things were written before were written for our learning, that through patience and through encouragement of the Scriptures we might have hope.”

1 Peter 1:13
117 votes

“Therefore, prepare your minds for action, be sober and set your hope fully on the grace that will be brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ--”

Romans 15:1
97 votes

“Now we who are strong ought to bear the weaknesses of the weak, and not to please ourselves.”

Romans 15:2
96 votes

“Let each one of us please his neighbor for that which is good, to be building him up.”

Philippians 3:19
96 votes

“whose end is destruction, whose god is the belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who think about earthly things.”

Romans 15:7
81 votes

“Therefore accept one another, even as Christ also accepted you, to the glory of God.”

Proverbs 23:2
79 votes

“put a knife to your throat, if you are a man given to appetite.”

1 Corinthians 10:23
60 votes

“"All things are lawful for me," but not all things are profitable. "All things are lawful for me," but not all things build up.”

Romans 15:5
57 votes

“Now the God of patience and of encouragement grant you to be of the same mind one with another according to Christ Jesus,”

Romans 15:6
53 votes

“that with one accord you may with one mouth glorify the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.”

Luke 12:29
46 votes

“Don't seek what you will eat or what you will drink; neither be anxious.”

Titus 1:12
45 votes

“One of them, a prophet of their own, said, "Cretans are always liars, evil beasts, and idle gluttons."”

Romans 15:9
40 votes

“and that the Gentiles might glorify God for his mercy. As it is written, "Therefore will I give praise to you among the Gentiles, and sing to your name."”

Romans 15:3
38 votes

“For even Christ didn't please himself. But, as it is written, "The reproaches of those who reproached you fell on me."”

Romans 15:14
33 votes

“I myself am also persuaded about you, my brothers, that you yourselves are full of goodness, filled with all knowledge, able also to admonish others.”

Romans 15:24
28 votes

“whenever I journey to Spain, I will come to you. For I hope to see you on my journey, and to be helped on my way there by you, if first I may enjoy your company for a while.”

Romans 15:28
28 votes

“When therefore I have accomplished this, and have sealed to them this fruit, I will go on by way of you to Spain.”

Romans 15:30
27 votes

“Now I beg you, brothers, by our Lord Jesus Christ, and by the love of the Spirit, that you strive together with me in your prayers to God for me,”

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