37 Bible Verses about Eating And Drinking
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Every man should eat and drink and enjoy the good of all his labor. It is the gift of God.
There is nothing better for a man than to eat and drink, and delight in his work. This also I saw was from the hand of God.
This is what I have seen. It is good and fitting for one to eat and drink and enjoy the good of his labor. He labors under the sun all the days of his life. For God gives this to him as his allotment (inheritance).
Then I commended enjoyment (pleasure), because a man has no better thing under the sun, than to eat, and to drink, and to be merry. That will remain with him in his labor all the days of his life, which God gives him under the sun.
All the people went away to take food and drink, and to send food to others, and to be glad, because the words that were said to them had been clearly communicated.
Then Elijah said to Ahab: Get up and take food and drink, for there is a sound of much rain.
Just as he thinks in his heart: Eat and drink, he says to you. But his heart is not with you.
(The Beloved) I came to my garden, my sister, my spouse. I gathered my myrrh with my spice. I ate my honeycomb with my honey and drank my wine with my milk. Eat, O friends; drink, yes, drink abundantly, O beloved.
Instead there was joy and festivity, killing oxen and slaughtering sheep, eating meat and drinking wine. Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die.
If I have fought with beasts at Ephesus, what advantage was it to me if the dead do not rise? Let us eat and drink for tomorrow we die.
I will say to my self: 'You have many possessions saved for many years. Take it easy and eat, drink and be merry.'
They set the table, they spread out the cloth, they eat, they drink; Rise up, captains, oil the shields,
Early the next day the people sacrificed burnt offerings and brought peace offerings. After that they sat down to a feast, which turned into an orgy.
Do not be idolaters like some of them. It is written: The people sat down to eat and drink, and stood up to play.
Wash and perfume yourself and put on your best clothes. Go down to the floor. Make yourself known to the man after he is done eating and drinking.
After Boaz ate and drank, and his heart was merry, he went to lie down at the end of the heap of barley. Ruth approached quietly, uncovered his feet, and lay down.
He and the men who were with him ate and drank and spent the night. When they got up in the morning, he said: Let me go back to my master.
He led David to the Amalekites. They were eating, drinking and celebrating because of what they had taken from Philistia and Judah.
It will be like those days before the Flood. They were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noah entered into the ark.
They ate, they drank and they got married until Noah entered the ark. Then the flood came, and destroyed them all.
The days of Lot were similar. They ate, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted and they built.
Do you become a king because you are competing in cedar? Did not your father eat and drink and do justice and righteousness? Then it was well with him.
Son of man, eat your bread with trembling and drink your water with quivering and anxiety.
Then say to the people of the land: 'The Lord Jehovah says concerning the inhabitants of Jerusalem in the land of Israel, They will eat their bread with anxiety and drink their water with horror, because their land will be stripped of its fullness on account of the violence of all who live in it.
He made proclamation and published it in Nineveh by the decree of the king and his nobles, saying: Let neither man nor beast, herd nor flock, taste anything; let them not eat, nor drink water.
The Son of man came eating and drinking, and they say, 'A gluttonous man and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners!' Wisdom is justified by its actions.
The Son of man came eating and drinking, and you say look he is a gluttonous man, and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners!
so I will beat (mistreat) my fellow servants.' And he eats and drinks with drunkards,
If that servant says in his heart, my master delays his coming; and beats the other servants and eats and drinks to excess,
They said: The disciples of John fast often and make supplications. So do the disciples of the Pharisees. But yours eat and drink.
Then you will answer, we ate and drank with you. You taught in our town!
No you do not. You say to him get my supper ready. Put on your apron and wait on me while I eat and drink. After that you may have your meal.
Just as you eat and drink at my table in my kingdom; you will sit on thrones judging the twelve tribes of Israel.
Whether you eat, or drink, or whatever you do, do everything to the glory of God.
Do you not have houses in which to eat and drink? Or do you despise the congregation of God, and shame them that have nothing? What shall I say to you? Shall I praise you in this? I will not praise you!
