For physical exercise is of limited value, but godliness is valuable in every way, holding promise for the present life and for the one to come.

Therefore strengthen your limp hands and weak knees.

Do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own; you were bought at a price. Therefore glorify God with your body.

Do you not know that you yourselves are God’s temple, and that God’s Spirit dwells in you?

Beloved, I pray that in every way you may prosper and enjoy good health, as your soul also prospers.

Do not get drunk on wine, which leads to reckless indiscretion. Instead, be filled with the Spirit.

Then God said, “Behold, I have given you every seed-bearing plant on the face of all the earth, and every tree whose fruit contains seed. They will be yours for food.

Lashes and wounds scour evil, and beatings cleanse the inmost parts.

Blessed is the man who does not walk in the counsel of the wicked, or set foot on the path of sinners, or sit in the seat of mockers. But his delight is in the Law of the LORD, and on His law he meditates day and night. He is like a tree planted by streams of water, yielding its fruit in season, whose leaf does not wither, and who prospers in all he does.

Likewise, I want the women to adorn themselves with respectable apparel, with modesty, and with self-control, not with braided hair or gold or pearls or expensive clothes,

Stop drinking only water and use a little wine instead, because of your stomach and your frequent ailments.

Deacons likewise must be dignified, not double-tongued or given to much wine or greedy for money.

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control. Against such things there is no law.

But take wheat, barley, beans, lentils, millet, and spelt; put them in a single container and make them into bread for yourself. This is what you are to eat during the 390 days you lie on your side.