Topic
APPETITE
Kept in subjection DAN 1:8-16; 1CO 9:27
Passages on this topic · 10
- 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.
- 1 Corinthians 9:27
but I beat my body and bring it into submission, lest by any means, after I have preached to others, I myself should be rejected.
From Nave’s Topical Bible (public domain).