Belly used Figuratively for the Seat of the Affections

10 passages listed in Nave’s Topical Bible and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook. Verse text: Berean Standard Bible; links open in your translation.

Job 15:2 “Does a wise man answer with empty counsel or fill his belly with the hot east wind?
Job 15:35 They conceive trouble and give birth to evil; their womb is pregnant with deceit.”
Job 20:20 Because his appetite is never satisfied, he cannot escape with his treasure.
Psalm 44:25 For our soul has sunk to the dust; our bodies cling to the earth.
Proverbs 18:20 From the fruit of his mouth a man’s belly is filled; with the harvest from his lips he is satisfied.
Proverbs 20:27 The spirit of a man is the lamp of the LORD, searching out his inmost being.
Proverbs 20:30 Lashes and wounds scour evil, and beatings cleanse the inmost parts.
Habakkuk 3:16 I heard and trembled within; my lips quivered at the sound. Decay entered my bones; I trembled where I stood. Yet I must wait patiently for the day of distress to come upon the people who invade us.
John 7:38 Whoever believes in Me, as the Scripture has said: ‘Streams of living water will flow from within him.’”
Titus 1:12 As one of their own prophets has said, “Cretans are always liars, evil beasts, lazy gluttons.”

Topics: Nave’s Topical Bible (1896) and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook (1897), public domain, via the Berean Bible topical index.