Bible Verses About Eating

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

Have we not power to eat and to drink?

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

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

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.

A man’s belly shall be satisfied with the fruit of his mouth; and with the increase of his lips shall he be filled.

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

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

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

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.

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.

For in eating every one taketh before other his own supper: and one is hungry, and another is drunken.

Eat thou not the bread of him that hath an evil eye, neither desire thou his dainty meats:

And having food and raiment let us be therewith content.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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:

So they did eat, and were well filled: for he gave them their own desire;

Do not ye yet understand, that whatsoever entereth in at the mouth goeth into the belly, and is cast out into the draught?

And take thou unto thee of all food that is eaten, and thou shalt gather it to thee; and it shall be for food for thee, and for them.

And they did all eat, and were filled.

He that regardeth the day, regardeth it unto the Lord; and he that regardeth not the day, to the Lord he doth not regard it. He that eateth, eateth to the Lord, for he giveth God thanks; and he that eateth not, to the Lord he eateth not, and giveth God thanks.

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.

Every moving thing that liveth shall be meat for you; even as the green herb have I given you all things.

A man shall eat good by the fruit of his mouth: but the soul of the transgressors shall eat violence.

For I say unto you, I will not any more eat thereof, until it be fulfilled in the kingdom of God.

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.

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

And ye shall eat fat till ye be full, and drink blood till ye be drunken, of my sacrifice which I have sacrificed for you.

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?

And if any man hunger, let him eat at home; that ye come not together unto condemnation. And the rest will I set in order when I come.

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