The Bible teaches that self-control is essential for a victorious Christian life, and overindulgence in food or drink can hinder spiritual growth. According to 1 Corinthians 9:24-27, believers are to discipline their bodies, bringing them under control to achieve spiritual goals. Proverbs 23:21 warns against the destructive nature of excess, while Philippians 3:19 cautions that those who live for earthly pleasures will face spiritual poverty. Through faith in Christ, as expressed in Philippians 4:13, believers can overcome gluttony and other fleshly desires, being vigilant against the enemy's schemes, as 1 Peter 5:8 advises, to live a life that honors God.
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Do you not know that in a race all the runners run, but only one receives the prize? Run in such a way as to take the prize. Everyone who competes in the games trains with strict discipline. They do it for a crown that is perishable, but we do it for a crown that is imperishable. Therefore I do not run aimlessly; I do not fight like I am beating the air. No, I discipline my body and make it my slave, so that after I have preached to others, I myself will not be disqualified.
Their end is destruction, their god is their belly, and their glory is in their shame. Their minds are set on earthly things.
For the drunkard and the glutton will come to poverty, and drowsiness will clothe them in rags.
Be sober-minded and alert. Your adversary the devil prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking someone to devour.
For the kingdom of God is not a matter of eating and drinking, but of righteousness, peace, and joy in the Holy Spirit.
Yet He knows the way I have taken; when He has tested me, I will come forth as gold. My feet have followed in His tracks; I have kept His way without turning aside. I have not departed from the command of His lips; I have treasured the words of His mouth more than my daily bread.
Those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh; but those who live according to the Spirit set their minds on the things of the Spirit. The mind of the flesh is death, but the mind of the Spirit is life and peace, because the mind of the flesh is hostile to God: It does not submit to God’s law, nor can it do so. Those controlled by the flesh cannot please God.
Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they will be filled.
Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body so that you obey its desires. Do not present the parts of your body to sin as instruments of wickedness, but present yourselves to God as those who have been brought from death to life; and present the parts of your body to Him as instruments of righteousness.
Do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own; you were bought at a price. Therefore glorify God with your body.
Surely I have stilled and quieted my soul; like a weaned child with his mother, like a weaned child is my soul within me.
So Jesus said to them, “Truly, truly, I tell you, unless you eat the flesh and drink the blood of the Son of Man, you have no life in you.
I am the bread of life. Your fathers ate the manna in the wilderness, yet they died. This is the bread that comes down from heaven, so that anyone may eat of it and not die. I am the living bread that came down from heaven. If anyone eats of this bread, he will live forever. And this bread, which I will give for the life of the world, is My flesh.”
Blessed are you, O land whose king is a son of nobles, and whose princes feast at the proper time— for strength and not for drunkenness.