Bible Verses About fatness
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But Jeshurun waxed fat, and kicked: thou art waxen fat, thou art grown thick, thou art covered with fatness; then he forsook God which made him, and lightly esteemed the Rock of his salvation.
Scripture Passages
Because he covereth his face with his fatness, and maketh collops of fat on his flanks.
Their heart is as fat as grease; but I delight in thy law.
I will seek that which was lost, and bring again that which was driven away, and will bind up that which was broken, and will strengthen that which was sick: but I will destroy the fat and the strong; I will feed them with judgment.
Therefore shall the Lord, the Lord of hosts, send among his fat ones leanness; and under his glory he shall kindle a burning like the burning of a fire.
Even so would he have removed thee out of the strait into a broad place, where there is no straitness; and that which should be set on thy table should be full of fatness.
And he brought the present unto Eglon king of Moab: and Eglon was a very fat man.
He that is of a proud heart stirreth up strife: but he that putteth his trust in the Lord shall be made fat.
All they that be fat upon earth shall eat and worship: all they that go down to the dust shall bow before him: and none can keep alive his own soul.
My knees are weak through fasting; and my flesh faileth of fatness.
Then came the first, saying, Lord, thy pound hath gained ten pounds.
Meats for the belly, and the belly for meats: but God shall destroy both it and them. Now the body is not for fornication, but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body.
They are inclosed in their own fat: with their mouth they speak proudly.
But the olive tree said unto them, Should I leave my fatness, wherewith by me they honour God and man, and go to be promoted over the trees?
And I will satiate the soul of the priests with fatness, and my people shall be satisfied with my goodness, saith the Lord.
But put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make not provision for the flesh, to fulfil the lusts thereof.
And, behold, there was a certain man before him which had the dropsy.
And the second came, saying, Lord, thy pound hath gained five pounds.
And in that day it shall come to pass, that the glory of Jacob shall be made thin, and the fatness of his flesh shall wax lean.
The wrath of God came upon them, and slew the fattest of them, and smote down the chosen men of Israel.
They are waxen fat, they shine: yea, they overpass the deeds of the wicked: they judge not the cause, the cause of the fatherless, yet they prosper; and the right of the needy do they not judge.
And he shall take all his fat from him, and burn it upon the altar.
But thou shalt have a perfect and just weight, a perfect and just measure shalt thou have: that thy days may be lengthened in the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee.
Make the heart of this people fat, and make their ears heavy, and shut their eyes; lest they see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and convert, and be healed.
When he is about to fill his belly, God shall cast the fury of his wrath upon him, and shall rain it upon him while he is eating.
Divers weights, and divers measures, both of them are alike abomination to the Lord.
Wherefore do ye spend money for that which is not bread? and your labour for that which satisfieth not? hearken diligently unto me, and eat ye that which is good, and let your soul delight itself in fatness.
Your glorying is not good. Know ye not that a little leaven leaveneth the whole lump?
Then shall the lambs feed after their manner, and the waste places of the fat ones shall strangers eat.
The righteous eateth to the satisfying of his soul: but the belly of the wicked shall want.
For when they speak great swelling words of vanity, they allure through the lusts of the flesh, through much wantonness, those that were clean escaped from them who live in error.
Put ye in the sickle, for the harvest is ripe: come, get you down; for the press is full, the fats overflow; for their wickedness is great.
And they took strong cities, and a fat land, and possessed houses full of all goods, wells digged, vineyards, and oliveyards, and fruit trees in abundance: so they did eat, and were filled, and became fat, and delighted themselves in thy great goodness.
He hath swallowed down riches, and he shall vomit them up again: God shall cast them out of his belly.
Howbeit this kind goeth not out but by prayer and fasting.
Divers weights are an abomination unto the Lord; and a false balance is not good.
But refuse profane and old wivesβ fables, and exercise thyself rather unto godliness.
Who being past feeling have given themselves over unto lasciviousness, to work all uncleanness with greediness.
For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty: and drowsiness shall clothe a man with rags.
The soul of the sluggard desireth, and hath nothing: but the soul of the diligent shall be made fat.
Their soul abhorreth all manner of meat; and they draw near unto the gates of death.
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