19 Bible Verses about Eating Meat
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For which reason, if meat cause my brother to fall, I will never eat meat, lest I cause my brother to fall.
It is good neither to eat flesh, nor to drink wine, nor to do any thing by which your brother stumbles, or is ensnared, or is made weak.
But meat commends us not to God; for, neither if we eat are we better, nor, if we eat not, are we worse.
Any thing that is sold in the market, eat, asking no questions on account of conscience:
Let not him that eats, despise him that eats not; and let not him that eats not, judge him that eats: for God has received him.
He that regards the day, to the Lord he regards it; and he that does not regard the day, to the Lord he does not regard it. He that eats, eats to the Lord; for he gives God thanks: and he that eats not, to the Lord he eats not, and gives God thanks.
Destroy not the work of God on account of food. All meats, indeed, are clean; but meat is an evil to that man who, by eating, causes another to stumble.
But if any one say to you: This is sacrificed to idols; eat not, for the sake of him that pointed it out, and for conscience sake:
Let no one judge you, therefore, in meat or in drink, or in respect to a feast, or the new moon, or sabbaths,
For, if any one see you, who have knowledge, reclining at table in an idol's temple, will not the conscience of him who is weak be emboldened, so that he will eat meats offered to idols?
With respect, then, to the eating of meats offered to idols, we know that an idol is nothing in the world, and that there is no other God but one.
But he that doubts is condemned, if he eat, because he eats not with faith. Every thing that is not of faith, is sin.
but that we write to them to abstain from pollutions of idols, and from lewdness, and from what is strangled, and from blood.
For though you ought to be teachers, considering the time, yet you have need that some one teach you again what are the first elements of the oracles of God; and you have be come such as have need of milk, and not of strong food.
who forbid to marry, and command to abstain from meats, which God has created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe, and know the truth.
For the kingdom of God is not food and drink, but righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit.