Bible Verses About Meat
This collection includes 50 passages about Meat. Copy a verse or open its chapter for context.
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For meat destroy not the work of God. All things indeed are pure; but it is evil for that man who eateth with offence.
Scripture Passages
But flesh with the life thereof, which is the blood thereof, shall ye not eat.
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.
And for thy cattle, and for the beast that are in thy land, shall all the increase thereof be meat.
Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, Ye shall eat no manner of fat, of ox, or of sheep, or of goat.
But if thy brother be grieved with thy meat, now walkest thou not charitably. Destroy not him with thy meat, for whom Christ died.
That which dieth of itself, or is torn with beasts, he shall not eat to defile himself therewith: I am the Lord.
Whatsoever parteth the hoof, and is clovenfooted, and cheweth the cud, among the beasts, that shall ye eat.
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.
And ye shall be holy men unto me: neither shall ye eat any flesh that is torn of beasts in the field; ye shall cast it to the dogs.
For whosoever eateth the fat of the beast, of which men offer an offering made by fire unto the Lord, even the soul that eateth it shall be cut off from his people.
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.
Eat not of it raw, nor sodden at all with water, but roast with fire; his head with his legs, and with the purtenance thereof.
Wherefore, if meat make my brother to offend, I will eat no flesh while the world standeth, lest I make my brother to offend.
For it is the life of all flesh; the blood of it is for the life thereof: therefore I said unto the children of Israel, Ye shall eat the blood of no manner of flesh: for the life of all flesh is the blood thereof: whosoever eateth it shall be cut off.
And the flesh that toucheth any unclean thing shall not be eaten; it shall be burnt with fire: and as for the flesh, all that be clean shall eat thereof.
Be not desirous of his dainties: for they are deceitful meat.
Ye shall therefore put difference between clean beasts and unclean, and between unclean fowls and clean: and ye shall not make your souls abominable by beast, or by fowl, or by any manner of living thing that creepeth on the ground, which I have separated from you as unclean.
Of their flesh shall ye not eat, and their carcase shall ye not touch; they are unclean to you.
Their soul abhorreth all manner of meat; and they draw near unto the gates of death.
And if it be a beast, whereof men bring an offering unto the Lord, all that any man giveth of such unto the Lord shall be holy.
These are the beasts which ye shall eat: the ox, the sheep, and the goat,
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 every beast that parteth the hoof, and cleaveth the cleft into two claws, and cheweth the cud among the beasts, that ye shall eat.
All flesh is not the same flesh: but there is one kind of flesh of men, another flesh of beasts, another of fishes, and another of birds.
Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, These are the beasts which ye shall eat among all the beasts that are on the earth.
And thou shalt offer thy burnt offerings, the flesh and the blood, upon the altar of the Lord thy God: and the blood of thy sacrifices shall be poured out upon the altar of the Lord thy God, and thou shalt eat the flesh.
Thou shalt not eat any abominable thing.
Of clean beasts, and of beasts that are not clean, and of fowls, and of every thing that creepeth upon the earth,
Then said I, Ah Lord God! behold, my soul hath not been polluted: for from my youth up even till now have I not eaten of that which dieth of itself, or is torn in pieces; neither came there abominable flesh into my mouth.
But of all clean fowls ye may eat.
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 the fat of the beast that dieth of itself, and the fat of that which is torn with beasts, may be used in any other use: but ye shall in no wise eat of it.
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.
The carcases of every beast which divideth the hoof, and is not clovenfooted, nor cheweth the cud, are unclean unto you: every one that toucheth them shall be unclean.
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.
Moreover ye shall eat no manner of blood, whether it be of fowl or of beast, in any of your dwellings.
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.
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.
The priests shall not eat of any thing that is dead of itself, or torn, whether it be fowl or beast.
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