Obesity?

Various Scripture passages can help lessen obesity:

Walking Exercise

Gen 13:17 Arise, walk through the length and the breadth of the land, for I will give it to you."

Psalm 48:12 Walk about Zion, go round about her, number her towers,

Isa 40:31 but they who wait for the LORD shall renew their strength, they shall mount up with wings like eagles, they shall run and not be weary, they shall walk and not faint.

Matt 9:5 For which is easier, to say, 'Your sins are forgiven,' or to say, 'Rise and walk'?

Matt 11:5 the blind receive their sight and the lame walk, lepers are cleansed and the deaf hear, and the dead are raised up, and the poor have good news preached to them.

Mark 2:9 Which is easier, to say to the paralytic, 'Your sins are forgiven,' or to say, 'Rise, take up your pallet and walk'?

Luke 7:22 And he answered them, "Go and tell John what you have seen and heard: the blind receive their sight, the lame walk, lepers are cleansed, and the deaf hear, the dead are raised up, the poor have good news preached to them.

John 5:8 Jesus said to him, "Rise, take up your pallet, and walk."

John 5:11 But he answered them, "The man who healed me said to me, 'Take up your pallet, and walk.'"

Acts 3:6 But Peter said, "I have no silver and gold, but I give you what I have; in the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, walk."

Running Exercise

1Sam 20:36 And he said to his lad, "Run and find the arrows which I shoot." As the lad ran, he shot an arrow beyond him.

2Sam 18:23 "Come what may," he said, "I will run." So he said to him, "Run." Then Ahimaaz ran by the way of the plain, and outran the Cushite.

1Kings 1:5 Now Adonijah the son of Haggith exalted himself, saying, "I will be king"; and he prepared for himself chariots and horsemen, and fifty men to run before him.

Joel 2:4 Their appearance is like the appearance of horses, and like war horses they run. Joel 2:9 They leap upon the city, they run upon the walls; they climb up into the houses, they enter through the windows like a thief.

1Cor 9:24 Do you not know that in a race all the runners compete, but only one receives the prize? So run that you may obtain it.

1Cor 9:26 Well, I do not run aimlessly, I do not box as one beating the air;

Swimming Exercise

Acts 27:43 but the centurion, wishing to save Paul, kept them from carrying out their purpose. He ordered those who could swim to throw themselves overboard first and make for the land,

Gymnastics Exercise

Gen 32:24 And Jacob was left alone; and a man wrestled with him until the breaking of the day.
Gen 32:25 When the man saw that he did not prevail against Jacob, he touched the hollow of his thigh; and Jacob's thigh was put out of joint as he wrestled with him.

Judg 21:21 and watch; if the daughters of Shiloh come out to dance in the dances, then come out of the vineyards and seize each man his wife from the daughters of Shiloh, and go to the land of Benjamin.

2Sam 6:14 And David danced before the LORD with all his might; and David was girded with a linen ephod.
2Sam 6:16 As the ark of the LORD came into the city of David, Michal the daughter of Saul looked out of the window, and saw King David leaping and dancing before the LORD; and she despised him in her heart.
2Sam 6:23 And Michal the daughter of Saul had no child to the day of her death.

Job 21:11 They send forth their little ones like a flock, and their children dance.

Psalm 18:29 Yea, by thee I can crush a troop; and by my God I can leap over a wall.

Psalm 150:4 Praise him with timbrel and dance; praise him with strings and pipe!

Song 2:8 The voice of my beloved! Behold, he comes, leaping upon the mountains, bounding over the hills.

Eccl 3:4 a time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance;

Jer 31:4 Again I will build you, and you shall be built, O virgin Israel! Again you shall adorn yourself with timbrels, and shall go forth in the dance of the merrymakers.

Jer 31:13 Then shall the maidens rejoice in the dance, and the young men and the old shall be merry. I will turn their mourning into joy, I will comfort them, and give them gladness for sorrow.

Mal 4:2 But for you who fear my name the sun of righteousness shall rise, with healing in its wings. You shall go forth leaping like calves from the stall.

Acts 3:8 And leaping up he stood and walked and entered the temple with them, walking and leaping and praising God.

Eating Well-Done (non-raw) Meat (i.e. not Rare with Blood) with No Fat

Lev 3:17 It shall be a perpetual statute throughout your generations, in all your dwelling places, that you eat neither fat nor blood."

Lev 7:23 "Say to the people of Israel, You shall eat no fat, of ox, or sheep, or goat.

Ruth 2:14 And at mealtime Boaz said to her, "Come here, and eat some bread, and dip your morsel in the wine." So she sat beside the reapers, and he passed to her parched grain; and she ate until she was satisfied, and she had some left over.

Prov 23:20 Be not among winebibbers, or among gluttonous eaters of meat;

1Cor 6:12 "All things are lawful for me," but not all things are helpful. "All things are lawful for me," but I will not be enslaved by anything.
1Cor 6:13 "Food is meant for the stomach and the stomach for food" --and God will destroy both one and the other. The body is not meant for immorality, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body.

Phil 3:19 Their end is destruction, their god is the belly, and they glory in their shame, with minds set on earthly things.

Eat Fish and Bread

Num 11:5 We remember the fish we ate in Egypt for nothing, the cucumbers, the melons, the leeks, the onions, and the garlic;

Luke 9:13 But he said to them, "You give them something to eat." They said, "We have no more than five loaves and two fish--unless we are to go and buy food for all these people."

Luke 9:16 And taking the five loaves and the two fish he looked up to heaven, and blessed and broke them, and gave them to the disciples to set before the crowd.

Luke 24:42 They gave him a piece of broiled fish,
Luke 24:43 and he took it and ate before them.

John 6:9 "There is a lad here who has five barley loaves and two fish; but what are they among so many?"

John 6:11 Jesus then took the loaves, and when he had given thanks, he distributed them to those who were seated; so also the fish, as much as they wanted.

John 21:9 When they got out on land, they saw a charcoal fire there, with fish lying on it, and bread.

John 21:10 Jesus said to them, "Bring some of the fish that you have just caught."

Eat Vegetables

Gen 1:30 And to every beast of the earth, and to every bird of the air, and to everything that creeps on the earth, everything that has the breath of life, I have given every green plant for food." And it was so.

Gen 9:3 Every moving thing that lives shall be food for you; and as I gave you the green plants, I give you everything.

Dan 1:12 "Test your servants for ten days; let us be given vegetables to eat and water to drink.

Dan 1:16 So the steward took away their rich food and the wine they were to drink, and gave them vegetables.

Eat Fruits

Lev 19:25 But in the fifth year you may eat of their fruit, that they may yield more richly for you: I am the LORD your God.

Num 13:27 And they told him, "We came to the land to which you sent us; it flows with milk and honey, and this is its fruit.

Josh 5:12 And the manna ceased on the morrow, when they ate of the produce of the land; and the people of Israel had manna no more, but ate of the fruit of the land of Canaan that year.

Josh 24:13 I gave you a land on which you had not labored, and cities which you had not built, and you dwell therein; you eat the fruit of vineyards and oliveyards which you did not plant.'

1Sam 25:18 Then Abigail made haste, and took two hundred loaves, and two skins of wine, and five sheep ready dressed, and five measures of parched grain, and a hundred clusters of raisins, and two hundred cakes of figs, and laid them on asses.

1Sam 30:12 and they gave him a piece of a cake of figs and two clusters of raisins. And when he had eaten, his spirit revived; for he had not eaten bread or drunk water for three days and three nights.

2Sam 6:19 and distributed among all the people, the whole multitude of Israel, both men and women, to each a cake of bread, a portion of meat, and a cake of raisins. Then all the people departed, each to his house.

2Sam 16:1 When David had passed a little beyond the summit, Ziba the servant of Mephibosheth met him, with a couple of asses saddled, bearing two hundred loaves of bread, a hundred bunches of raisins, a hundred of summer fruits, and a skin of wine.

1Chron 12:40 And also their neighbors, from as far as Issachar and Zebulun and Naphtali, came bringing food on asses and on camels and on mules and on oxen, abundant provisions of meal, cakes of figs, clusters of raisins, and wine and oil, oxen and sheep, for there was joy in Israel.

1Chron 16:3 and distributed to all Israel, both men and women, to each a loaf of bread, a portion of meat, and a cake of raisins.

Song 2:3 As an apple tree among the trees of the wood, so is my beloved among young men. With great delight I sat in his shadow, and his fruit was sweet to my taste.

Song 2:5 Sustain me with raisins, refresh me with apples; for I am sick with love.

Isa 28:4 and the fading flower of its glorious beauty, which is on the head of the rich valley, will be like a first-ripe fig before the summer: when a man sees it, he eats it up as soon as it is in his hand.

Jer 24:2 One basket had very good figs, like first-ripe figs, but the other basket had very bad figs, so bad that they could not be eaten.

Hosea 3:1 And the LORD said to me, "Go again, love a woman who is beloved of a paramour and is an adulteress; even as the LORD loves the people of Israel, though they turn to other gods and love cakes of raisins."

Mic 7:1 Woe is me! For I have become as when the summer fruit has been gathered, as when the vintage has been gleaned: there is no cluster to eat, no first-ripe fig which my soul desires.

Nahum 3:12 All your fortresses are like fig trees with first-ripe figs--if shaken they fall into the mouth of the eater.

Drink Water, Milk, and Wine

Gen 18:8 Then he took curds, and milk, and the calf which he had prepared, and set it before them; and he stood by them under the tree while they ate.

Gen 14:18 And Melchizedek king of Salem brought out bread and wine; he was priest of God Most High.

Gen 27:25 Then he said, "Bring it to me, that I may eat of my son's game and bless you." So he brought it to him, and he ate; and he brought him wine, and he drank.

Deut 32:14 Curds from the herd, and milk from the flock, with fat of lambs and rams, herds of Bashan and goats, with the finest of the wheat--and of the blood of the grape you drank wine.

Judg 19:19 We have straw and provender for our asses, with bread and wine for me and your maidservant and the young man with your servants; there is no lack of anything."

Ruth 2:14 And at mealtime Boaz said to her, "Come here, and eat some bread, and dip your morsel in the wine." So she sat beside the reapers, and he passed to her parched grain; and she ate until she was satisfied, and she had some left over.

1Sam 10:3 Then you shall go on from there further and come to the oak of Tabor; three men going up to God at Bethel will meet you there, one carrying three kids, another carrying three loaves of bread, and another carrying a skin of wine.

1Sam 16:20 And Jesse took an ass laden with bread, and a skin of wine and a kid, and sent them by David his son to Saul.

2Sam 16:1 When David had passed a little beyond the summit, Ziba the servant of Mephibosheth met him, with a couple of asses saddled, bearing two hundred loaves of bread, a hundred bunches of raisins, a hundred of summer fruits, and a skin of wine.

2Sam 16:2 And the king said to Ziba, "Why have you brought these?" Ziba answered, "The asses are for the king's household to ride on, the bread and summer fruit for the young men to eat, and the wine for those who faint in the wilderness to drink."

2Chr 31:5 As soon as the command was spread abroad, the people of Israel gave in abundance the first fruits of grain, wine, oil, honey, and of all the produce of the field; and they brought in abundantly the tithe of everything.

2Chr 32:28 storehouses also for the yield of grain, wine, and oil; and stalls for all kinds of cattle, and sheepfolds.

Ezra 6:9 And whatever is needed--young bulls, rams, or sheep for burnt offerings to the God of heaven, wheat, salt, wine, or oil, as the priests at Jerusalem require--let that be given to them day by day without fail,

Esther 1:7 Drinks were served in golden goblets, goblets of different kinds, and the royal wine was lavished according to the bounty of the king.

Esther 1:10 On the seventh day, when the heart of the king was merry with wine, he commanded Mehuman, Biztha, Harbona, Bigtha and Abagtha, Zethar and Carkas, the seven eunuchs who served King Ahasuerus as chamberlains,

Psalm 104:15 and wine to gladden the heart of man, oil to make his face shine, and bread to strengthen man's heart.

Prov 31:6 Give strong drink to him who is perishing, and wine to those in bitter distress;

Eccl 2:3 I searched with my mind how to cheer my body with wine--my mind still guiding me with wisdom--and how to lay hold on folly, till I might see what was good for the sons of men to do under heaven during the few days of their life.

Eccl 9:7 Go, eat your bread with enjoyment, and drink your wine with a merry heart; for God has already approved what you do.

Eccl 10:19 Bread is made for laughter, and wine gladdens life, and money answers everything.

Song 5:1 I come to my garden, my sister, my bride, I gather my myrrh with my spice, I eat my honeycomb with my honey, I drink my wine with my milk. Eat, O friends, and drink: drink deeply, O lovers!

Song 7:2 Your navel is a rounded bowl that never lacks mixed wine. Your belly is a heap of wheat, encircled with lilies.

Song 7:9 and your kisses like the best wine that goes down smoothly, gliding over lips and teeth.

Song 8:2 I would lead you and bring you into the house of my mother, and into the chamber of her that conceived me. I would give you spiced wine to drink, the juice of my pomegranates.

Zec 9:17 Yea, how good and how fair it shall be! Grain shall make the young men flourish, and new wine the maidens.

John 2:10 and said to him, "Every man serves the good wine first; and when men have drunk freely, then the poor wine; but you have kept the good wine until now."

Eph 5:18 And do not get drunk with wine, for that is debauchery; but be filled with the Spirit,

1Cor 9:7 Who serves as a soldier at his own expense? Who plants a vineyard without eating any of its fruit? Who tends a flock without getting some of the milk?

1Tim 3:8 Deacons likewise must be serious, not double-tongued, not addicted to much wine, not greedy for gain;

1Tim 5:23 No longer drink only water, but use a little wine for the sake of your stomach and your frequent ailments.

Eat Other Assorted Foods

Gen 43:11 Then their father Israel said to them, "If it must be so, then do this: take some of the choice fruits of the land in your bags, and carry down to the man a present, a little balm and a little honey, gum, myrrh, pistachio nuts, and almonds

Exo 16:31 Now the house of Israel called its name manna; it was like coriander seed, white, and the taste of it was like wafers made with honey.

Judg 14:8 And after a while he returned to take her; and he turned aside to see the carcass of the lion, and behold, there was a swarm of bees in the body of the lion, and honey.
Judg 14:9 He scraped it out into his hands, and went on, eating as he went; and he came to his father and mother, and gave some to them, and they ate. But he did not tell them that he had taken the honey from the carcass of the lion.

2Sam 17:29 honey and curds and sheep and cheese from the herd, for David and the people with him to eat; for they said, "The people are hungry and weary and thirsty in the wilderness."

Prov 24:13 My son, eat honey, for it is good, and the drippings of the honeycomb are sweet to your taste.

Prov 25:16 If you have found honey, eat only enough for you, lest you be sated with it and vomit it.

Prov 25:27 It is not good to eat much honey, so be sparing of complimentary words.

So 5:1 I come to my garden, my sister, my bride, I gather my myrrh with my spice, I eat my honeycomb with my honey, I drink my wine with my milk. Eat, O friends, and drink: drink deeply, O lovers!

Isa 7:15 He shall eat curds and honey when he knows how to refuse the evil and choose the good.

Get Enough Rest and Sleep, etc.

Gen 2:18 Then the LORD God said, "It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a helper fit for him."

Ps 37:7 Be still before the LORD, and wait patiently for him; fret not yourself over him who prospers in his way, over the man who carries out evil devices!

Prov 18:22 He who finds a wife finds a good thing, and obtains favor from the LORD.

Isa 28:20 For the bed is too short to stretch oneself on it, and the covering too narrow to wrap oneself in it.

Matt 6:27 And which of you by being anxious can add one cubit to his span of life?

Matt 6:34 "Therefore do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Let the day's own trouble be sufficient for the day.

John 9:4 We must work the works of him who sent me, while it is day; night comes, when no one can work.

John 11:9 Jesus answered, "Are there not twelve hours in the day? If any one walks in the day, he does not stumble, because he sees the light of this world.

Php 4:6 Have no anxiety about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God.
Php 4:7 And the peace of God, which passes all understanding, will keep your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.

1Pet 5:7 Cast all your anxieties on him, for he cares about you.

Bible(?) Verses You Have to Watch Out For, and Understand Correctly

Matt 15:20 These are what defile a man; but to eat with unwashed hands [containing feces, urine, semen, plutonium, sulfuric acid, ricin and anthrax] does not defile a man."

Eccl 11:7 Light is sweet, and it is pleasant for the eyes to behold the sun [and go completely blind staring directly at the Sun all day for a week].

Php 4:13 I can do all things in him who strengthens me [like grab a 375,000-volt power line with my bare hands, jump over the Moon, and dive out of a high-flying jet expecting to survive upon smashing into the Earth]

Col 3:3 For you have died, and your life is hid with Christ in God [and if you want to know the names of the morgue, funeral parlor, and graveyard my casket was buried in, just ask me].