Abstemiousness

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Bible verses about “Abstemiousness”

The first verses cited, in the King James Version.

• Proverbs 23:1When thou sittest to eat with a ruler, consider diligently what is before thee:
• Proverbs 23:2And put a knife to thy throat, if thou be a man given to appetite.
• Proverbs 23:3Be not desirous of his dainties: for they are deceitful meat.
• Daniel 1:8But Daniel purposed in his heart that he would not defile himself with the portion of the king’s meat, nor with the wine which he drank: therefore he requested of the prince of the eunuchs that he might not defile himself.
• Daniel 1:9Now God had brought Daniel into favour and tender love with the prince of the eunuchs.
• Daniel 1:10And the prince of the eunuchs said unto Daniel, I fear my lord the king, who hath appointed your meat and your drink: for why should he see your faces worse liking than the children which are of your sort? then shall ye make me endanger my head to the king.
• Daniel 1:11Then said Daniel to Melzar, whom the prince of the eunuchs had set over Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah,
• Daniel 1:12Prove thy servants, I beseech thee, ten days; and let them give us pulse to eat, and water to drink.
• Daniel 1:13Then let our countenances be looked upon before thee, and the countenance of the children that eat of the portion of the king’s meat: and as thou seest, deal with thy servants.
• Daniel 1:14So he consented to them in this matter, and proved them ten days.
• Daniel 1:15And at the end of ten days their countenances appeared fairer and fatter in flesh than all the children which did eat the portion of the king’s meat.
• Daniel 1:16Thus Melzar took away the portion of their meat, and the wine that they should drink; and gave them pulse.
• Matthew 11:19The Son of man came eating and drinking, and they say, Behold a man gluttonous, and a winebibber, a friend of publicans and sinners. But wisdom is justified of her children.