losing weight

¹³Temptation should not take hold of you, except what is human. For God is faithful, and he will not permit you to be tempted beyond your ability. Instead, he will effect his Providence, even during temptation, so that you may be able to bear it.

¹³Everything is possible in him who has strengthened me.

³¹Therefore, whether you eat or drink, or whatever else you may do, do everything for the glory of God.

¹And so, I beg you, brothers, by the mercy of God, that you offer your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God, with the subservience of your mind.

⁷Ask, and it shall be given to you. Seek, and you shall find. Knock, and it shall be opened to you.

¹¹And Daniel said to Malasar, whom the leader of the eunuchs had appointed over Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah, ¹²“I beg you to test us, your servants, for ten days, and let roots be given to us to eat and water to drink, ¹³and then observe our faces, and the faces of the children who eat the king’s food, and then deal with your servants according to what you see.” ¹⁴When he had heard these words, he tested them for ten days. ¹⁵But, after ten days, their faces appeared better and fatter than all the children who had eaten from the king’s food.

²³Amen I say to you, that whoever will say to this mountain, ‘Be taken up and cast into the sea,’ and who will not have hesitated in his heart, but will have believed: then whatever he has said be done, it shall be done for him.

³⁷But in all these things we overcome, because of him who has loved us.

⁴For all that is born of God overcomes the world. And this is the victory that overcomes the world: our faith.

⁴Little sons, you are of God, and so you have overcome him. For he who is in you is greater than he who is in the world.

¹Furthermore, since we also have so great a cloud of witnesses over us, let us set aside every burden and sin which may surround us, and advance, through patience, to the struggle offered to us.

³¹So, what should we say about these things? If God is for us, who is against us?

⁸For by grace, you have been saved through faith. And this is not of yourselves, for it is a gift of God.

¹¹Most beloved, I beg you, as new arrivals and sojourners, to abstain from carnal desires, which battle against the soul.

³³These things I have spoken to you, so that you may have peace in me. In the world, you will have difficulties. But have confidence: I have overcome the world.”

³¹But those who hope in the Lord will renew their strength. They will take up wings like eagles. They will run and not struggle. They will walk and not tire.

⁹The Lord is not delaying his promise, as some imagine, but he does act patiently for your sake, not wanting anyone to perish, but wanting all to be turned back to penance.

²¹For those who waste time drinking, and who surrender themselves to symbols, will be consumed. And those who sleep will be clothed in rags.