What Does the Bible Say About The Stomach?

1 Timothy 5:23 ESV / 29 helpful votes

(No longer drink only water, but use a little wine for the sake of your stomach and your frequent ailments.)

Proverbs 18:20 ESV / 25 helpful votes

From the fruit of a man's mouth his stomach is satisfied; he is satisfied by the yield of his lips.

Proverbs 20:1 ESV / 24 helpful votes

Wine is a mocker, strong drink a brawler, and whoever is led astray by it is not wise.

2 Peter 1:20 ESV / 21 helpful votes

Knowing this first of all, that no prophecy of Scripture comes from someone's own interpretation.

Mark 7:18-19 ESV / 20 helpful votes

And he said to them, “Then are you also without understanding? Do you not see that whatever goes into a person from outside cannot defile him, since it enters not his heart but his stomach, and is expelled?” (Thus he declared all foods clean.)

2 Timothy 2:22 ESV / 17 helpful votes

So flee youthful passions and pursue righteousness, faith, love, and peace, along with those who call on the Lord from a pure heart.

Ephesians 5:18 ESV / 16 helpful votes

And do not get drunk with wine, for that is debauchery, but be filled with the Spirit,

Genesis 19:32-38 ESV / 14 helpful votes

Come, let us make our father drink wine, and we will lie with him, that we may preserve offspring from our father.” So they made their father drink wine that night. And the firstborn went in and lay with her father. He did not know when she lay down or when she arose. The next day, the firstborn said to the younger, “Behold, I lay last night with my father. Let us make him drink wine tonight also. Then you go in and lie with him, that we may preserve offspring from our father.” So they made their father drink wine that night also. And the younger arose and lay with him, and he did not know when she lay down or when she arose. Thus both the daughters of Lot became pregnant by their father. ...

Titus 2:7 ESV / 12 helpful votes

Show yourself in all respects to be a model of good works, and in your teaching show integrity, dignity,

1 Corinthians 6:19 ESV / 11 helpful votes

Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, whom you have from God? You are not your own,

Habakkuk 2:15 ESV / 11 helpful votes

“Woe to him who makes his neighbors drink— you pour out your wrath and make them drunk, in order to gaze at their nakedness!

1 Peter 2:11 ESV / 9 helpful votes

Beloved, I urge you as sojourners and exiles to abstain from the passions of the flesh, which wage war against your soul.

1 Corinthians 11:1-34 ESV / 9 helpful votes

Be imitators of me, as I am of Christ. Now I commend you because you remember me in everything and maintain the traditions even as I delivered them to you. But I want you to understand that the head of every man is Christ, the head of a wife is her husband, and the head of Christ is God. Every man who prays or prophesies with his head covered dishonors his head, but every wife who prays or prophesies with her head uncovered dishonors her head, since it is the same as if her head were shaven. ...

Isaiah 65:8 ESV / 7 helpful votes

Thus says the Lord: “As the new wine is found in the cluster, and they say, ‘Do not destroy it, for there is a blessing in it,’ so I will do for my servants' sake, and not destroy them all.

Isaiah 24:9 ESV / 7 helpful votes

No more do they drink wine with singing; strong drink is bitter to those who drink it.

Isaiah 16:10 ESV / 7 helpful votes

And joy and gladness are taken away from the fruitful field, and in the vineyards no songs are sung, no cheers are raised; no treader treads out wine in the presses; I have put an end to the shouting.

Proverbs 23:29-35 ESV / 7 helpful votes

Who has woe? Who has sorrow? Who has strife? Who has complaining? Who has wounds without cause? Who has redness of eyes? Those who tarry long over wine; those who go to try mixed wine. Do not look at wine when it is red, when it sparkles in the cup and goes down smoothly. In the end it bites like a serpent and stings like an adder. Your eyes will see strange things, and your heart utter perverse things. ...

1 Corinthians 6:13 ESV / 6 helpful votes

“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 sexual immorality, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body.

Proverbs 31:6 ESV / 6 helpful votes

Give strong drink to the one who is perishing, and wine to those in bitter distress;

Leviticus 10:9 ESV / 6 helpful votes

“Drink no wine or strong drink, you or your sons with you, when you go into the tent of meeting, lest you die. It shall be a statute forever throughout your generations.

Revelation 10:9 ESV / 5 helpful votes

So I went to the angel and told him to give me the little scroll. And he said to me, “Take and eat it; it will make your stomach bitter, but in your mouth it will be sweet as honey.”

1 Peter 5:8 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Be sober-minded; be watchful. Your adversary the devil prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking someone to devour.

Luke 5:22 ESV / 5 helpful votes

When Jesus perceived their thoughts, he answered them, “Why do you question in your hearts?

Leviticus 11:5 ESV / 5 helpful votes

And the rock badger, because it chews the cud but does not part the hoof, is unclean to you.

1 Thessalonians 4:3-5 ESV / 4 helpful votes

For this is the will of God, your sanctification: that you abstain from sexual immorality; that each one of you know how to control his own body in holiness and honor, not in the passion of lust like the Gentiles who do not know God;

1 Corinthians 3:16-17 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Do you not know that you are God's temple and that God's Spirit dwells in you? If anyone destroys God's temple, God will destroy him. For God's temple is holy, and you are that temple.

Luke 1:15 ESV / 4 helpful votes

For he will be great before the Lord. And he must not drink wine or strong drink, and he will be filled with the Holy Spirit, even from his mother's womb.

Ezekiel 16:49 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Behold, this was the guilt of your sister Sodom: she and her daughters had pride, excess of food, and prosperous ease, but did not aid the poor and needy.

Isaiah 28:7 ESV / 4 helpful votes

These also reel with wine and stagger with strong drink; the priest and the prophet reel with strong drink, they are swallowed by wine, they stagger with strong drink, they reel in vision, they stumble in giving judgment.

Isaiah 5:11 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Woe to those who rise early in the morning, that they may run after strong drink, who tarry late into the evening as wine inflames them!

Psalm 104:14-15 ESV / 4 helpful votes

You cause the grass to grow for the livestock and plants for man to cultivate, that he may bring forth food from the earth and wine to gladden the heart of man, oil to make his face shine and bread to strengthen man's heart.

Galatians 5:21 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Envy, drunkenness, orgies, and things like these. I warn you, as I warned you before, that those who do such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.

Galatians 5:19 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Now the works of the flesh are evident: sexual immorality, impurity, sensuality,

1 Corinthians 6:10 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Nor thieves, nor the greedy, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God.

Romans 13:13-14 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Let us walk properly as in the daytime, not in orgies and drunkenness, not in sexual immorality and sensuality, not in quarreling and jealousy. But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh, to gratify its desires.

John 17:17 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Sanctify them in the truth; your word is truth.

Judges 13:7 ESV / 3 helpful votes

But he said to me, ‘Behold, you shall conceive and bear a son. So then drink no wine or strong drink, and eat nothing unclean, for the child shall be a Nazirite to God from the womb to the day of his death.’”

Numbers 6:3 ESV / 3 helpful votes

He shall separate himself from wine and strong drink. He shall drink no vinegar made from wine or strong drink and shall not drink any juice of grapes or eat grapes, fresh or dried.

Leviticus 11:1-47 ESV / 3 helpful votes

And the Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying to them, “Speak to the people of Israel, saying, These are the living things that you may eat among all the animals that are on the earth. Whatever parts the hoof and is cloven-footed and chews the cud, among the animals, you may eat. Nevertheless, among those that chew the cud or part the hoof, you shall not eat these: The camel, because it chews the cud but does not part the hoof, is unclean to you. And the rock badger, because it chews the cud but does not part the hoof, is unclean to you. ...

Ephesians 5:3 ESV / 2 helpful votes

But sexual immorality and all impurity or covetousness must not even be named among you, as is proper among saints.

40 Bible Verses about The Stomach

1 Timothy 5:23 ESV / 29 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Proverbs 18:20 ESV / 25 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Proverbs 20:1 ESV / 24 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

2 Peter 1:20 ESV / 21 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Mark 7:18-19 ESV / 20 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

2 Timothy 2:22 ESV / 17 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Ephesians 5:18 ESV / 16 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Genesis 19:32-38 ESV / 14 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Titus 2:7 ESV / 12 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 Corinthians 6:19 ESV / 11 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Habakkuk 2:15 ESV / 11 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 Peter 2:11 ESV / 9 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 Corinthians 11:1-34 ESV / 9 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Isaiah 65:8 ESV / 7 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Isaiah 24:9 ESV / 7 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Isaiah 16:10 ESV / 7 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Proverbs 23:29-35 ESV / 7 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 Corinthians 6:13 ESV / 6 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Proverbs 31:6 ESV / 6 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Leviticus 10:9 ESV / 6 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Revelation 10:9 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 Peter 5:8 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Luke 5:22 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Leviticus 11:5 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 Thessalonians 4:3-5 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 Corinthians 3:16-17 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Luke 1:15 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Ezekiel 16:49 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Isaiah 28:7 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Isaiah 5:11 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Psalm 104:14-15 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Galatians 5:21 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Galatians 5:19 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 Corinthians 6:10 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Romans 13:13-14 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

John 17:17 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Judges 13:7 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Numbers 6:3 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Leviticus 11:1-47 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Ephesians 5:3 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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