Bible Verses About Food and Sustenance

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

Have we not power to eat and to drink?

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.

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

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

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.

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

He causeth the grass to grow for the cattle, and herb for the service of man: that he may bring forth food out of the earth;

The righteous eateth to the satisfying of his soul: but the belly of the wicked shall want.

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 one of you say unto them, Depart in peace, be ye warmed and filled; notwithstanding ye give them not those things which are needful to the body; what doth it profit?

Now he that ministereth seed to the sower both minister bread for your food, and multiply your seed sown, and increase the fruits of your righteousness;)

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.

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

And Jesus said unto them, I am the bread of life: he that cometh to me shall never hunger; and he that believeth on me shall never thirst.

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

For the bread of God is he which cometh down from heaven, and giveth life unto the world.

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.

And his disciples answered him, From whence can a man satisfy these men with bread here in the wilderness?

If ye be willing and obedient, ye shall eat the good of the land:

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

But he answered and said, It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God.

And there will I nourish thee; for yet there are five years of famine; lest thou, and thy household, and all that thou hast, come to poverty.

Therefore God give thee of the dew of heaven, and the fatness of the earth, and plenty of corn and wine:

And I will send grass in thy fields for thy cattle, that thou mayest eat and be full.

Yet there is both straw and provender for our asses; and there is bread and wine also for me, and for thy handmaid, and for the young man which is with thy servants: there is no want of any thing.

There is nothing better for a man, than that he should eat and drink, and that he should make his soul enjoy good in his labour. This also I saw, that it was from the hand of God.

Labour not for the meat which perisheth, but for that meat which endureth unto everlasting life, which the Son of man shall give unto you: for him hath God the Father sealed.

And Jesus answered him, saying, It is written, That man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word of God.

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

And thou shalt have goats’ milk enough for thy food, for the food of thy household, and for the maintenance for thy maidens.

For they are life unto those that find them, and health to all their flesh.

For the earth which drinketh in the rain that cometh oft upon it, and bringeth forth herbs meet for them by whom it is dressed, receiveth blessing from God:

And the land shall yield her fruit, and ye shall eat your fill, and dwell therein in safety.

And they did all eat, and were filled.

And for thy cattle, and for the beast that are in thy land, shall all the increase thereof be meat.

For by them judgeth he the people; he giveth meat in abundance.

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

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 he humbled thee, and suffered thee to hunger, and fed thee with manna, which thou knewest not, neither did thy fathers know; that he might make thee know that man doth not live by bread only, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of the Lord doth man live.