Gluttony

Definition:

Being morally loose or without moral restraint on behavior, whether it comes to food or other fleshly appetites.

In regards to eating and drinking:

  • Numbers 11:4-34
  • Psalm 78:18
  • Proverbs 23:1-3
  • Proverbs 23:20-21
  • Matthew 11:19
  • Luke 7:34
  • Philippians 3:19
  • Titus 1:12

In more general terms:

  • Deuteronomy 21:20
  • Proverbs 28:7
  • Romans 13:13-14
  • I John 2:15-16
  • I Peter 4:3

Lack of self-control in specific pleasures

  • Proverbs 25:16
  • Proverbs 25:27

Too much leads to rebellion

  • Deuteronomy 8:10-14
  • Deuteronomy 31:20
  • Hosea 13:6

Eat at the proper time

  • Ecclesiastes 10:16-17

Having neither too little nor too much

  • Proverbs 30:8-9
  • I Timothy 6:8
  • Hebrews 13:5
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