Bible Verses About Dietary Choices

But meat commendeth us not to God: for neither, if we eat, are we the better; neither, if we eat not, are we the worse.

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.

Whether therefore ye eat, or drink, or whatsoever ye do, do all to the glory of God.

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

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

For one believeth that he may eat all things: another, who is weak, eateth herbs.

Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life more than meat, and the body than raiment?

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

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.

And he said unto his disciples, Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat; neither for the body, what ye shall put on.

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.

Butter and honey shall he eat, that he may know to refuse the evil, and choose the good.

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

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.

Let not him that eateth despise him that eateth not; and let not him which eateth not judge him that eateth: for God hath received him.

Meats for the belly, and the belly for meats: but God shall destroy both it and them. Now the body is not for fornication, but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body.

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

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:

Wherefore, if meat make my brother to offend, I will eat no flesh while the world standeth, lest I make my brother to offend.

But put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make not provision for the flesh, to fulfil the lusts thereof.

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.

I know, and am persuaded by the Lord Jesus, that there is nothing unclean of itself: but to him that esteemeth any thing to be unclean, to him it is unclean.

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

And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat.

Be not desirous of his dainties: for they are deceitful meat.

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.

Have we not power to eat and to drink?

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

There is nothing from without a man, that entering into him can defile him: but the things which come out of him, those are they that defile the man.

Incline not my heart to any evil thing, to practise wicked works with men that work iniquity: and let me not eat of their dainties.

Wherefore do ye spend money for that which is not bread? and your labour for that which satisfieth not? hearken diligently unto me, and eat ye that which is good, and let your soul delight itself in fatness.

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

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:

Thou shalt not eat any abominable thing.

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

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

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

She may not eat of any thing that cometh of the vine, neither let her drink wine or strong drink, nor eat any unclean thing: all that I commanded her let her observe.

Be not ye therefore partakers with them.