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²⁰Do not be willing to be in the feasts of great drinkers, nor in the carousings of those who gather to feed on flesh. ²¹For those who waste time drinking, and who surrender themselves to symbols, will be consumed. And those who sleep will be clothed in rags.

¹⁹Or do you not know that your bodies are the Temple of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have from God, and that you are not your own? ²⁰For you have been bought at a great price. Glorify and carry God in your body.

⁷Whoever keeps the law is a wise son. But whoever feeds gluttons brings shame to his father.

¹⁶You have discovered honey; eat what is sufficient for you, lest perhaps, being filled up, you may vomit it.

²and put a knife to your throat, if, in such a way, you could hold your soul in your own power.

⁸For the exercise of the body is somewhat useful. But piety is useful in all things, holding the promise of life, in the present and in the future.

²⁰And they shall say to them: ‘This our son is reckless and disobedient. He shows contempt when listening to our admonitions. He occupies himself with carousing, and self-indulgence, and feasting.’

¹⁹Their end is destruction; their god is their belly; and their glory is in their shame: for they are immersed in earthly things.

²⁷Just as whoever eats too much honey, it is not good for him, so also whoever is an investigator of what is majestic will be overwhelmed by glory.

⁴⁹Behold, this was the iniquity of Sodom, your sister: arrogance, indulgence in bread and abundance, and the idleness of her and her daughters; and they did not reach out their hand to the needy and the poor.

¹⁸For many persons, about whom I have often told you (and now tell you, weeping,) are walking as enemies of the cross of Christ. ¹⁹Their end is destruction; their god is their belly; and their glory is in their shame: for they are immersed in earthly things.

¹⁵The beloved grew fat, and he kicked. Having grown fat and thick and wide, he abandoned God, his Maker, and he withdrew from God, his Savior.

¹⁶Do you not know that you are the Temple of God, and that the Spirit of God lives within you? ¹⁷But if anyone violates the Temple of God, God will destroy him. For the Temple of God is holy, and you are that Temple.

¹⁷Blessed is the land whose king is noble, and whose princes eat at the proper time, for refreshment and not for self-indulgence.

⁷And the Lord said to Samuel: “You should not look with favor on his face, nor on the height of his stature. For I have rejected him. Neither do I judge by the appearance of a man. For man sees those things that are apparent, but the Lord beholds the heart.”

²⁷Instead, I chastise my body, so as to redirect it into servitude. Otherwise, I might preach to others, but become myself an outcast.