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Abstemiousness

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Proverbs 23:1When you sit to eat with a ruler, consider diligently what is before you;Proverbs 23:2put a knife to your throat, if you are a man given to appetite.Proverbs 23:3Don’t be desirous of his dainties, since they are deceitful food.Daniel 1:8But 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 1:9Now God made Daniel to find kindness and compassion in the sight of the prince of the eunuchs.Daniel 1:10The 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 1:11Then Daniel said to the steward whom the prince of the eunuchs had appointed over Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah:Daniel 1:12Test your servants, I beg you, ten days; and let them give us vegetables to eat, and water to drink.Daniel 1:13Then 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 1:14So he listened to them in this matter, and proved them ten days.Daniel 1:15At 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 1:16So the steward took away their dainties, and the wine that they should drink, and gave them pulse.Matthew 11:19The 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.”