What does the Bible say about gluttony?

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• Philippians 3:19

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

• Proverbs 23:20-21

  [20] Don't be among ones drinking too much wine, Or those who gorge themselves on meat: [21] For the drunkard and the glutton shall become poor; And drowsiness clothes them in rags.

• Proverbs 23:2

  Put a knife to your throat, If you are a man given to appetite.

• 1 Corinthians 3:16-17

  [16] Don't you know that you are a temple of God, and that God's Spirit lives in you? [17] If anyone destroys the temple of God, God will destroy him; for God's temple is holy, which you are.

• Proverbs 25:16

  Have you found honey? Eat as much as is sufficient for you, Lest you eat too much, and vomit it.

• Proverbs 23:21

  For the drunkard and the glutton shall become poor; And drowsiness clothes them in rags.

• Psalms 78:18

  They tempted God in their heart By asking food according to their desire.

• 1 Corinthians 10:31

  Whether therefore you eat, or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.

• Philippians 3:18-19

  [18] For many walk, of whom I told you often, and now tell you even weeping, as the enemies of the cross of Christ, [19] whose end is destruction, whose god is the belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who think about earthly things.

• Deuteronomy 21:20

  and they shall tell 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.

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