49 Bible Verses about Eating Meat
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Therefore, if food causes my brother to fall, I will never again eat meat, so that I won’t cause my brother to fall.
It is a noble thing not to eat meat, or drink wine, or do anything that makes your brother stumble.
You will eat the flesh of your sons; you will eat the flesh of your daughters.
Food will not make us acceptable to God. We are not inferior if we don’t eat, and we are not better if we do eat.
Eat everything that is sold in the meat market, asking no questions for conscience’ sake,
One who eats must not look down on one who does not eat, and one who does not eat must not criticize one who does, because God has accepted him.
If any is eaten on the third day, it is a repulsive thing; it will not be accepted.
Whoever observes the day, observes it for the honor of the Lord. Whoever eats, eats for the Lord, since he gives thanks to God; and whoever does not eat, it is for the Lord that he does not eat it, yet he thanks God.
Every living creature will be food for you; as I gave the green plants, I have given you everything.
Do not tear down God’s work because of food. Everything is clean, but it is wrong for a man to cause stumbling by what he eats.
“Please test your servants for 10 days. Let us be given vegetables to eat and water to drink.
But if someone says to you, “This is food offered to an idol,” do not eat it, out of consideration for the one who told you, and for conscience’ sake.
He must not eat an animal that died naturally or was mauled by wild beasts, making himself unclean by it; I am Yahweh.
Therefore, don’t let anyone judge you in regard to food and drink or in the matter of a festival or a new moon or a Sabbath day.
“Those who dedicate and purify themselves to enter the groves following their leader, eating meat from pigs, vermin, and rats, will perish together.”
This is the Lord’s declaration.
But don’t eat the blood, since the blood is the life, and you must not eat the life with the meat.
For if someone sees you, the one who has this knowledge, dining in an idol’s temple, won’t his weak conscience be encouraged to eat food offered to idols?
Do not eat any of their meat or touch their carcasses—they are unclean for you.
This is what the Lord of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: “Add your burnt offerings to your other sacrifices, and eat the meat yourselves,
Do not eat any of the creatures that swarm on the earth, anything that moves on its belly or walks on all fours or on many feet, for they are detestable.
Where can I get meat to give all these people? For they are crying to me: ‘Give us meat to eat!’
“When the Lord your God enlarges your territory as He has promised you, and you say, ‘I want to eat meat’ because you have a strong desire to eat meat, you may eat it whenever you want.
About eating food offered to idols, then, we know that “an idol is nothing in the world,” and that “there is no God but one.”
They are to eat the meat that night; they should eat it, roasted over the fire along with unleavened bread and bitter herbs.
At the end of 10 days they looked better and healthier than all the young men who were eating the king’s food.
“But whenever you want, you may slaughter and eat meat within any of your gates, according to the blessing the Lord your God has given you. Those who are clean or unclean may eat it, as they would a gazelle or deer,
Therefore say to them: This is what the Lord God says: You eat meat with blood in it, raise your eyes to your idols, and shed blood. Should you then receive possession of the land?
I didn’t eat any rich food, no meat or wine entered my mouth, and I didn’t put any oil on my body until the three weeks were over.
These are the animals you may eat:
the ox, the sheep, the goat,
But whoever doubts stands condemned if he eats, because his eating is not from a conviction, and everything that is not from a conviction is sin.
“Tell the people: Purify yourselves in readiness for tomorrow, and you will eat meat because you cried before the Lord: ‘Who will feed us meat? We really had it good in Egypt.’ The Lord will give you meat and you will eat.
Present the meat and blood of your burnt offerings on the altar of the Lord your God. The blood of your other sacrifices is to be poured out beside the altar of the Lord your God, but you may eat the meat.
but instead we should write to them to abstain from things polluted by idols, from sexual immorality, from eating anything that has been strangled, and from blood.
So David hid in the field.
At the New Moon, the king sat down to eat the meal.
Although by this time you ought to be teachers, you need someone to teach you the basic principles of God’s revelation again. You need milk, not solid food.
They forbid marriage and demand abstinence from foods that God created to be received with gratitude by those who believe and know the truth.
Some reported to Saul: “Look, the troops are sinning against the Lord by eating meat with the blood still in it.”
Saul said, “You have been unfaithful. Roll a large stone over here at once.”
All of its growth may serve as food for your livestock and the wild animals in your land.
“This is what you may eat from all that is in the water: You may eat everything in the water that has fins and scales, whether in the seas or streams.
for the kingdom of God is not eating and drinking, but righteousness, peace, and joy in the Holy Spirit.
“You are not to eat anything with blood in it. You are not to practice divination or sorcery.
sitting among the graves,
spending nights in secret places,
eating the meat of pigs,
and putting polluted broth in their bowls.
Daniel determined that he would not defile himself with the king’s food or with the wine he drank. So he asked permission from the chief official not to defile himself.
