ABSTEMIOUSNESS

Passages on this topic · 13

• Proverbs 23:1

  When you sit to eat with a ruler, consider diligently what is before you;

• Proverbs 23:2

  put a knife to your throat, if you are a man given to appetite.

• Proverbs 23:3

  Don’t be desirous of his dainties, since they are deceitful food.

• Daniel 1:8

  But Daniel purposed in his heart that he would not defile himself with the king’s dainties, nor with the wine which he drank: therefore he requested of the prince of the eunuchs that he might not defile himself.

• Daniel 1:9

  Now God made Daniel to find kindness and compassion in the sight of the prince of the eunuchs.

• Daniel 1:10

  The prince of the eunuchs said to Daniel, I fear my lord the king, who has appointed your food and your drink: for why should he see your faces worse looking than the youths who are of your own age? so would you endanger my head with the king.

• Daniel 1:11

  Then Daniel said to the steward whom the prince of the eunuchs had appointed over Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah:

• Daniel 1:12

  Test your servants, I beg you, ten days; and let them give us vegetables to eat, and water to drink.

• Daniel 1:13

  Then let our faces be looked on before you, and the face of the youths who eat of the king’s dainties; and as you see, deal with your servants.

• Daniel 1:14

  So he listened to them in this matter, and proved them ten days.

• Daniel 1:15

  At the end of ten days their faces appeared fairer, and they were fatter in flesh, than all the youths who ate of the king’s dainties.

• Daniel 1:16

  So the steward took away their dainties, and the wine that they should drink, and gave them pulse.

• Matthew 11:19

  The Son of Man came eating and drinking, and they say, ‘Behold, a gluttonous man and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners!’ But wisdom is justified by her children.”