The Bible teaches that overindulgence and excess can be detrimental to one's spiritual and physical well-being. In Ecclesiastes, the writer cautions against excessive desires, including those related to food and drink. The apostle Paul warns against defiling one's body, which is a temple of the Holy Spirit, in 1 Corinthians. Additionally, Philippians and Romans emphasize the importance of self-control and living a life that honors God, with Daniel's example of dietary self-discipline serving as a model for believers to follow a path of moderation and devotion.
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Better what the eye can see than the wandering of desire. This too is futile and a pursuit of the wind.
If anyone destroys God’s temple, God will destroy him; for God’s temple is holy, and you are that temple.
For as I have often told you before, and now say again even with tears: Many live as enemies of the cross of Christ. Their end is destruction, their god is their belly, and their glory is in their shame. Their minds are set on earthly things. But our citizenship is in heaven, and we eagerly await a Savior from there, the Lord Jesus Christ,
Therefore I urge you, brothers, on account of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as living sacrifices, holy and pleasing to God, which is your spiritual service of worship. Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what is the good, pleasing, and perfect will of God.
“Please test your servants for ten days. Let us be given only vegetables to eat and water to drink.
Then God said, “Behold, I have given you every seed-bearing plant on the face of all the earth, and every tree whose fruit contains seed. They will be yours for food.
Beloved, I pray that in every way you may prosper and enjoy good health, as your soul also prospers.
This is a permanent statute for the generations to come, wherever you live: You must not eat any fat or any blood.”
But Jeshurun grew fat and kicked— becoming fat, bloated, and gorged. He abandoned the God who made him and scorned the Rock of his salvation.
“Come, all you who are thirsty, come to the waters; and you without money, come, buy, and eat! Come, buy wine and milk without money and without cost! Why spend money on that which is not bread, and your labor on that which does not satisfy? Listen carefully to Me, and eat what is good, and your soul will delight in the richest of foods. Incline your ear and come to Me; listen, so that your soul may live. I will make with you an everlasting covenant— My loving devotion promised to David.
The Son of Man came eating and drinking, and you say, ‘Look at this glutton and drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners!’
“Speak to the Israelites and say, ‘You are not to eat any of the fat of an ox, a sheep, or a goat.
The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy. I have come that they may have life, and have it in all its fullness.