Bible Verses About Culinary Tradition

For meat destroy not the work of God. All things indeed are pure; but it is evil for that man who eateth with offence.

And into whatsoever city ye enter, and they receive you, eat such things as are set before you:

For laying aside the commandment of God, ye hold the tradition of men, as the washing of pots and cups: and many other such like things ye do.

It is good neither to eat flesh, nor to drink wine, nor any thing whereby thy brother stumbleth, or is offended, or is made weak.

Why do thy disciples transgress the tradition of the elders? for they wash not their hands when they eat bread.

Forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain from meats, which God hath created to be received with thanksgiving of them which believe and know the truth.

And he will take your daughters to be confectionaries, and to be cooks, and to be bakers.

But Peter said, Not so, Lord; for I have never eaten any thing that is common or unclean.

Be not carried about with divers and strange doctrines. For it is a good thing that the heart be established with grace; not with meats, which have not profited them that have been occupied therein.

Let no man therefore judge you in meat, or in drink, or in respect of an holyday, or of the new moon, or of the sabbath days:

Not that which goeth into the mouth defileth a man; but that which cometh out of the mouth, this defileth a man.

Thou shalt not eat it; that it may go well with thee, and with thy children after thee, when thou shalt do that which is right in the sight of the Lord.

And teach customs, which are not lawful for us to receive, neither to observe, being Romans.

But if thy brother be grieved with thy meat, now walkest thou not charitably. Destroy not him with thy meat, for whom Christ died.

For he that eateth and drinketh unworthily, eateth and drinketh damnation to himself, not discerning the Lord’s body.

Therefore take no thought, saying, What shall we eat? or, What shall we drink? or, Wherewithal shall we be clothed?

But if any man say unto you, This is offered in sacrifice unto idols, eat not for his sake that shewed it, and for conscience sake: for the earth is the Lord’s, and the fulness thereof:

And wine that maketh glad the heart of man, and oil to make his face to shine, and bread which strengtheneth man’s heart.

And also that every man should eat and drink, and enjoy the good of all his labour, it is the gift of God.

But they that have gathered it shall eat it, and praise the Lord; and they that have brought it together shall drink it in the courts of my holiness.

But ye have profaned it, in that ye say, The table of the Lord is polluted; and the fruit thereof, even his meat, is contemptible.

We have an altar, whereof they have no right to eat which serve the tabernacle.

These are the things which defile a man: but to eat with unwashen hands defileth not a man.

It shall be a perpetual statute for your generations throughout all your dwellings, that ye eat neither fat nor blood.

Now therefore beware, I pray thee, and drink not wine nor strong drink, and eat not any unclean thing:

My meat also which I gave thee, fine flour, and oil, and honey, wherewith I fed thee, thou hast even set it before them for a sweet savour: and thus it was, saith the Lord God.

And when ye did eat, and when ye did drink, did not ye eat for yourselves, and drink for yourselves?

Wherefore, my brethren, when ye come together to eat, tarry one for another.

It shall be health to thy navel, and marrow to thy bones.

Have we not power to eat and to drink?

And seek not ye what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink, neither be ye of doubtful mind.

And having food and raiment let us be therewith content.

For the Pharisees, and all the Jews, except they wash their hands oft, eat not, holding the tradition of the elders.

Only be sure that thou eat not the blood: for the blood is the life; and thou mayest not eat the life with the flesh.

If any of them that believe not bid you to a feast, and ye be disposed to go; whatsoever is set before you, eat, asking no question for conscience sake.

But flesh with the life thereof, which is the blood thereof, shall ye not eat.

And there ye shall eat before the Lord your God, and ye shall rejoice in all that ye put your hand unto, ye and your households, wherein the Lord thy God hath blessed thee.

And whatsoever is first ripe in the land, which they shall bring unto the Lord, shall be thine; every one that is clean in thine house shall eat of it.

But I said, Not so, Lord: for nothing common or unclean hath at any time entered into my mouth.

Wherefore I pray you to take some meat: for this is for your health: for there shall not an hair fall from the head of any of you.