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   about diet and fasting



"Woe to you hypocrites...
First, cast out the log from your own eye,
so that you may see well enough
to get the little splinter
out of your brother's eye."
(Matthew 7:35; Luke 6:42 )

"When you fast...
your Father shall
reward you openly."
(Matt 6:17-18)
"The kingdom of heaven
is within you."
(Luke 17:21)
"If your hand offends you,
cut it off,
and cast it from you...
It is better for you
to enter into life maimed,
rather than,
having two hands or two feet,
to be cast into everlasting fire."
(Matt 18:8)
"It is not those who are healthy
that need a physician,
but those who are sick...
I did not come
to call the righteous,
but sinners...
to repentance."
(Matt 9:12-13; Mark 2:17; Luke 5:31-32)
"Become ye
therefore perfect,
even as your Father in Heaven
is perfect."
(Matthew 5:48)
"Do you not yet understand,
that whatsoever enters in
at the mouth,
goes into the belly,
and is cast out into the sewer?"
(Matthew 15:17)
"The gate is wide,
and the way is broad 
that leads to destruction,
and many are those that enter by it...
But straight is the gate
and narrow is the way
which leads unto life,
and few there be
that find it."
(Matthew 7:13-14)

"Seek ye FIRST
the kingdom of heaven...
and all these things
shall be added unto you."
(Matthew 6:33)
"No man,
having drunk the old wine,
desires the new,
for he says
'The old is sufficient.' "
(Luke 5:39)

"Except a man be born again,
he cannot see
the kingdom of God."
(John 3:3)
"If anyone wishes to come after me,
let him deny himself,
and follow me."
(Luke 17:21)

"Come unto me,
all you that labor and are heavy laden,
and I will give you rest."
(Matthew 11:28)
"Woe to you hypocrites,
you blind guides,
who strain out a gnat,
yet swallow a camel."
(Matthew 23:24)

"All things are possible
to him whom believes."
(Mark 9:23)

"Keep watching and praying...
that you may not enter into temptation;
the spirit is willing,
but the flesh is weak."
(Matthew 26:41)

"Woe to you hypocrites!
For you are like whitewashed tombs
which appear beautiful on the outside,
but inside are full of all uncleaness."
(Matthew 23:27)

"It is the spirit that gives life;
the flesh is profitable for nothing."
(John 6:63)
"Whatever, therefore,
you eat or drink,
or whatever you do,
do all to the glory of God."
(I Corinth 10:31)

"It is better for the heart to be
strengthened by grace
than by foods,
through which
those who were thus occupied
were not benefited."
(Hebrews 13:9)
"I have food to eat
that you know not of."
(John 4:32)

"My food
is to do the will
of Him who sent me."
(John 4:34)
"Be not anxious
for what you shall eat,
or what you shall drink...
or what you shall wear...
Isn't life more than food?
...and the body more than clothing?"
(Luke 12:22; 29)

"Man does not live
by bread alone,
but by every word
that proceeds from
the mouth of God."
(Matthew 4:4)

"Unless you become again
as little children,
you cannot enter
the kingdom of heaven."
(Matthew 18:3)

"You cannot serve
two masters."
(Matthew 6:24)
"If you live after the flesh,
you shall die,
but if, through the spirit,
you mortify the deeds of the body,
you shall live."
( Romans 8:13)

"Your body is
the temple of the Holy Spirit...
therefore, glorify God
in your body."
(I Corinth 3:16; 6:19-20)
"The kingdom of God
is not eating and drinking,
but righteousness and peace,
and joy in the Holy Spirit."
(Romans 14:17)

"Unless your righteousness
exceeds the righteousness
of the scribes and pharisees,
you shall in no way enter
the kingdom of heaven."
(Matthew 5:20)
"Cleanse first the inside of the cup,
that the outside may be clean also."
(Matthew 23:26)

"When you fast,
be not as the hypocrites...
who disfigure their faces,
so they may appear unto men to fast...
But when you fast,
anoint your head,
and wash your face,
so you appear not unto men to fast,
but unto your Father
who sees in secret,
and your Father shall reward you openly."
(Matthew 6:16-18)

"Whoever drinks
of the water I give him,
shall never thirst."
(John 4:14)

"Daniel made up his mind
he would not defile himself
with the king's meat and wine...
Let us be given pulses to eat,
and water to drink...
At the end of ten days,
their appearance was handsomer,
and they were stronger,
than all the youths who had been eating
the king's food."
(Daniel 1:12, 15, 17, 18)

"If food makes my brother to offend,
I will eat no flesh-foods
while the world stands."
(I Corinth 8:13)

"Do not destroy the work of God
for the sake of food...
It is good
neither to eat flesh-foods,
nor drink wine,
nor anything by which
your brother stumbles,
or is offended, or made weak."
(Romans 14:20-21)

"Behold, I have given you
every herb bearing seed
which is upon the face of all the earth,
and every tree in which is the fruit
of a tree yielding seed...
To you it shall be for food."
(Genesis 1:29)

"Of every tree of Paradise,
you may eat freely."
(Genesis 2:16) 
"Bless the Lord...who heals all diseases; 
who redeems our life from destruction...
who satisfies our mouth with good things;
so that our youth is renewed like the eagles."
(Psalms 103: 1-5)

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