9 Bible Verses about Stomachs
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It is true, food is meant for the stomach, and the stomach for the food, but God will put an end to both of them. But the body is not meant for immorality, but for the service of the Lord, and the Lord is for the body to serve.
For just as Jonah was in the maw of the whale for three days and nights, the Son of Man will be three days and nights in the heart of the earth.
And he said to them, "Have not even you any understanding then? Do you not see that nothing that goes into a man from outside can pollute him, since it does not go into his heart but into his stomach and then is disposed of?" So he declared all food clean.
Can you not see that whatever goes into the mouth passes into the stomach and then is disposed of?
And he was ready to fill himself with the pods the pigs were eating, and no one would give him anything.
Stop drinking nothing but water; take a little wine for the good of your digestion and for your frequent attacks of illness.
So I went up to the angel and told him to give me the little scroll. And he said to me, "Take it and eat it; it will be bitter in your stomach, but in your mouth it will taste as sweet as honey." So I took the little scroll from the angel's hand and ate it, and it did taste as sweet as honey, but when I had eaten it, it made my stomach bitter.
They are doomed to destruction: their appetites are their god; they glory in their shame; they are absorbed in earthly matters.
Such men are not serving our Lord Christ, but their own base passions, and with their plausible and flattering talk they deceive simple-minded people.
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