49 Bible Verses about Eating Meat

Therefore, if food makes my brother to stumble, I will eat no meat while the world stands, lest I make my brother to stumble.

It is good neither to eat meat, nor to drink wine, nor anything by which your brother stumbles, or is offended, or is made weak.

And you shall eat the flesh of your sons, and the flesh of your daughters shall you eat.

But food commends us not to God: for neither, if we eat, are we the better; neither, if we eat not, are we the worse.

Whatsoever is sold in the meat market, that eat, asking no question for conscience's sake:

For one believes that he may eat all things: another, who is weak, eats herbs.

Let not him that eats despise him that eats not; and let not him who eats not judge him that eats: for God has received him.

And if it be eaten at all on the third day, it is abominable; it shall not be accepted.

He that regards the day, regards it unto the Lord; and he that regards not 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.

Every moving thing that lives shall be food for you; even as the green plants have I given you all things.

For food destroy not the work of God. All things indeed are pure; but it is evil for that man who eats with offense.

Test your servants, I beseech you, ten days; and let them give us vegetables to eat, and water to drink.

But if any man say unto you, This is offered in sacrifice unto idols, eat not for his sake that showed it, and for conscience's sake: for the earth is the Lord's, and the fullness thereof:

But flesh with its life, which is its blood, shall you not eat.

That which dies of itself, or is torn by animals, he shall not eat to defile himself by it: I am the LORD.

Let no man therefore judge you in food, or in drink, or in respect of a holy day, or of the new moon, or of the sabbath days:

They that sanctify themselves, and purify themselves in the gardens following one in the midst, eating swine's flesh, and the abomination, and the mouse, shall be consumed together, says the LORD.

Only be sure that you eat not the blood: for the blood is the life; and you may not eat the life with the flesh.

Only you shall not eat the blood; you shall pour it upon the earth as water.

For if any man sees you who have knowledge eating in the idol's temple, shall not the conscience of him who is weak be encouraged to eat those things which are offered to idols;

Of their flesh shall you not eat, and their carcass shall you not touch; they are unclean to you.

Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Add your burnt offerings unto your sacrifices, and eat the flesh.

Whatsoever goes upon the belly, and whatsoever goes upon all fours, or whatsoever has many feet among all creeping things that creep upon the earth, them you shall not eat; for they are an abomination.

From where should I have flesh to give unto all this people? for they weep unto me, saying, Give us flesh, that we may eat.

When the LORD your God shall enlarge your border, as he has promised you, and you shall say, I will eat flesh, because your soul longs to eat flesh; you may eat flesh, whatsoever your soul desires.

As concerning therefore the eating of those things that are offered in sacrifice unto idols, we know that an idol is nothing in the world, and that there is no other God but one.

But he said unto them, I have food to eat that you know not of.

And they shall eat the flesh in that night, roasted with fire, and unleavened bread; and with bitter herbs they shall eat it.

And at the end of ten days their countenances appeared better and fatter in flesh than all the young men who did eat the portion of the king's food.

Nevertheless you may kill and eat flesh in all your gates, whatsoever your soul desires, according to the blessing of the LORD your God which he has given you: the unclean and the clean may eat thereof, as of the gazelle, and as of the hart.

Therefore say unto them, Thus says the Lord GOD; You eat with the blood, and lift up your eyes toward your idols, and shed blood: and shall you possess the land?

But Peter said, Not so, Lord; for I have never eaten anything that is common or unclean.

I ate no pleasant food, neither came meat nor wine in my mouth, neither did I anoint myself at all, till three whole weeks were fulfilled.

These are the animals which you shall eat: the ox, the sheep, and the goat,

And he that doubts is condemned if he eats, because he eats not of faith: for whatever is not of faith is sin.

And say unto the people, Sanctify yourselves for tomorrow, and you shall eat flesh: for you have wept in the ears of the LORD, saying, Who shall give us flesh to eat? for it was well with us in Egypt: therefore the LORD will give you flesh, and you shall eat.

And you shall offer your burnt offerings, the flesh and the blood, upon the altar of the LORD your God: and the blood of your sacrifices shall be poured out upon the altar of the LORD your God, and you shall eat the flesh.

But that we write unto them, that they abstain from defilements of idols, and from fornication, and from things strangled, and from blood.

So David hid himself in the field: and when the new moon was come, the king sat himself down to eat the feast.

For when for the time you ought to be teachers, you have need that one teach you again which be the first principles of the oracles of God; and are become such as have need of milk, and not of solid food.

Forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain from foods, which God has created to be received with thanksgiving of them who believe and know the truth.

Then they told Saul, saying, Behold, the people sin against the LORD, in that they eat with the blood. And he said, you have transgressed: roll a great stone unto me this day.

And for your cattle, and for the animals that are in your land, shall all the increase thereof be food.

These shall you eat of all that are in the waters: whatsoever has fins and scales in the waters, in the seas, and in the rivers, them shall you eat.

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

You shall not eat anything with the blood: neither shall you use divination, nor witchcraft.

Eat not of it raw, nor boiled at all with water, but roasted with fire; its head with its legs, and with the inner parts thereof.

Who remain among the graves, and lodge in the monuments, who eat swine's flesh, and broth of abominable things is in their vessels;

But Daniel purposed in his heart that he would not defile himself with the portion of the king's food, nor with the wine which he drank: therefore he requested of the prince of the eunuchs that he might not defile himself.