Bible Verses About Food

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

Have we not power to eat and to drink?

And having food and raiment let us be therewith content.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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 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 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:

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

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.

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.

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

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:

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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 they did all eat, and were filled.

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

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

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.

So he set it before them, and they did eat, and left thereof, according to the word of the Lord.

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