49 Bible Verses about Eating Meat

For this reason, if food is a cause of trouble to my brother, I will give up taking meat for ever, so that I may not be a cause of trouble to my brother.

It is better not to take meat or wine or to do anything which might be a cause of trouble to your brother.

Then you will take the flesh of your sons and the flesh of your daughters for food;

But God's approval of us is not based on the food we take: if we do not take it we are no worse for it; and if we take it we are no better.

Whatever meat may be had at the public market, take as food without question of right or wrong;

One man has faith to take all things as food: another who is feeble in faith takes only green food.

Let not him who takes food have a low opinion of him who does not: and let not him who does not take food be a judge of him who does; for he has God's approval.

If any of it is used for food on the third day, it is a disgusting thing and will not be pleasing to the Lord.

He who keeps the day, keeps it to the Lord; and he who takes food, takes it as to the Lord, for he gives praise to God; and he who does not take food, to the Lord he takes it not, and gives praise to God.

Every living and moving thing will be food for you; I give them all to you as before I gave you all green things.

Do not let the work of God come to nothing on account of food. All things are certainly clean; but it is evil for that man who by taking food makes it hard for another.

Put your servants to the test for ten days; let them give us grain for our food and water for our drink.

But if anyone says to you, This food has been used as an offering, do not take it, on account of him who said it, and on account of his sense of right and wrong:

But flesh with the life-blood in it you may not take for food.

That which comes to a natural death, or is attacked by beasts, he may not take as food, for it will make him unclean: I am the Lord.

For this reason let no man be your judge in any question of food or drink or feast days or new moons or Sabbaths:

As for those who keep themselves separate, and make themselves clean in the gardens, going after one in the middle, taking pig's flesh for food, and other disgusting things, such as the mouse: their works and their thoughts will come to an end together, says the Lord.

But see that you do not take the blood for food; for the blood is the life; and you may not make use of the life as food with the flesh.

But you may not take the blood for food, it is to be drained out on the earth like water.

For if a man sees you, who have knowledge, taking food as a guest in the house of an image, will it not give him, if he is feeble, the idea that he may take food offered to images?

Their flesh may not be used for food, and their dead bodies may not even be touched; they are unclean to you.

These are the words of the Lord of armies, the God of Israel: Put your burned offerings with your offerings of beasts, and take flesh for your food.

Whatever goes on its stomach or on four feet or has a great number of feet, even all those going flat on the earth, may not be used for food, for they are disgusting.

Where am I to get flesh to give to all this people? For they are weeping to me and saying, Give us flesh for our food.

When the Lord your God makes wide the limit of your land, as he has said, and you say, I will take flesh for my food, because you have a desire for it; then you may take whatever flesh you have a desire for.

So, then, as to the question of taking food offered to images, we are certain that an image is nothing in the world, and that there is no God but one.

But he said to them, I have food of which you have no knowledge.

And let your food that night be the flesh of the lamb, cooked with fire in the oven, together with unleavened bread and bitter-tasting plants.

And at the end of ten days their faces seemed fairer and they were fatter in flesh than all the young men who had their food from the king's table.

Only you may put to death animals, such as the gazelle or the roe, for your food in any of your towns, at the desire of your soul, in keeping with the blessing of the Lord your God which he has given you: the unclean and the clean may take of it.

For this cause say to them, This is what the Lord has said: You take your meat with the blood, your eyes are lifted up to your images, and you are takers of life: are you to have the land for your heritage?

But Peter said, No, Lord; for I have never taken food which is common or unclean.

I had no pleasing food, no meat or wine came into my mouth, and I put no oil on my body till three full weeks were ended.

These are the beasts which you may have for food: the ox, the sheep, and the goat;

But he who is in doubt is judged if he takes food, because he does it not in faith; and whatever is not of faith is sin.

And say to the people, Make yourselves clean before tomorrow and you will have flesh for your food: for in the ears of the Lord you have been weeping and saying, Who will give us flesh for food? for we were well off in Egypt: and so the Lord will give you flesh, and it will be your food;

Offering the flesh and the blood of your burned offerings on the altar of the Lord your God; and the blood of your offerings is to be drained out on the altar of the Lord your God, and the flesh will be your food.

But that we give them orders to keep themselves from things offered to false gods, and from the evil desires of the body, and from the flesh of animals put to death in ways against the law, and from blood.

So David went to a secret place in the country: and when the new moon came, the king took his place at the feast.

And though by this time it would be right for you to be teachers, you still have need of someone to give you teaching about the first simple rules of God's revelation; you have become like babies who have need of milk, and not of solid food.

Who keep men from being married and from taking food which God made to be taken with praise by those who have faith and true knowledge.

Then it was said to Saul, See, the people are sinning against the Lord, taking the blood with the flesh. And he said to those who gave him the news, Now let a great stone be rolled to me here.

And for your cattle and the beasts on the land; all the natural increase of the land will be for food.

These you may have for food of all things living in the water: anything living in the water, in the seas or rivers, which has special parts for swimming and skin formed of thin plates, may be used for food.

For the kingdom of God is not food and drink, but righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit.

Nothing may be used for food with its blood in it; you may not make use of strange arts, or go in search of signs and wonders.

Do not take it uncooked or cooked with boiling water, but let it be cooked in the oven; its head with its legs and its inside parts.

Who are seated in the resting-places of the dead, and by night are in the secret places; who take pig's flesh for food, and have the liquid of disgusting things in their vessels.

And Daniel had come to the decision that he would not make himself unclean with the king's food or wine; so he made a request to the captain of the unsexed servants that he might not make himself unclean.