49 Bible Verses about Eating Meat

Therefore, if food causes my brother to stumble, I will eat no meat forevermore, that I don't cause my brother to stumble.

It is good to not eat meat, drink wine, nor do anything by which your brother stumbles, is offended, or is made weak.

You will eat the flesh of your sons, and you will eat the flesh of your daughters.

But food will not commend us to God. For neither, if we don't eat, are we the worse; nor, if we eat, are we the better.

Whatever is sold in the butcher shop, eat, asking no question for the sake of conscience,

One man has faith to eat all things, but he who is weak eats only vegetables.

Don't let him who eats despise him who doesn't eat. Don't let him who doesn't eat judge him who eats, for God has accepted him.

If it is eaten at all on the third day, it is an abomination. It will not be accepted;

He who observes the day, observes it to the Lord; and he who does not observe the day, to the Lord he does not observe it. He who eats, eats to the Lord, for he gives God thanks. He who doesn't eat, to the Lord he doesn't eat, and gives God thanks.

Every moving thing that lives will be food for you. As the green herb, I have given everything to you.

Don't overthrow God's work for food's sake. All things indeed are clean, however it is evil for that man who creates a stumbling block by eating.

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

But if anyone says to you, "This was offered to idols," don't eat it for the sake of the one who told you, and for the sake of conscience. For "the earth is the Lord's, and all its fullness."

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

That which dies of itself, or is torn by animals, he shall not eat, defiling himself by it. I am Yahweh.

Let no one therefore judge you in eating, or in drinking, or with respect to a feast day or a new moon or a Sabbath day,

"Those who sanctify themselves and purify themselves [to go] to the gardens, behind one in the midst, eating pig's flesh, and the abomination, and the mouse, they shall come to an end together," says Yahweh.

Only be sure that you don't eat the blood: for the blood is the life; and you shall not eat the life with the flesh.

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

For if a man sees you who have knowledge sitting in an idol's temple, won't his conscience, if he is weak, be emboldened to eat things sacrificed to idols?

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

Thus says Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel: Add your burnt offerings to your sacrifices, and eat meat.

Whatever goes on its belly, and whatever goes on all fours, or whatever has many feet, even all creeping things that creep on the earth, them you shall not eat; for they are an abomination.

Where could I get meat to give to all this people? For they weep to me, saying, 'Give us meat, that we may eat.'

When Yahweh your God shall enlarge your border, as he has promised you, and you shall say, "I want to eat meat," because your soul desires to eat meat; you may eat meat, after all the desire of your soul.

Therefore concerning the eating of things sacrificed to idols, we know that no idol is anything in the world, and that there is no other God but one.

But he said to them, "I have food to eat that you don't know about."

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

At the end of ten days their faces appeared fairer, and they were fatter in flesh, than all the youths who ate of the king's dainties.

Notwithstanding, you may kill and eat flesh within all your gates, after all the desire of your soul, according to the blessing of Yahweh your God which he has given you: the unclean and the clean may eat of it, as of the gazelle, and as of the hart.

Therefore tell them, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: You eat with the blood, and lift up your eyes to 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 bread, neither came flesh nor wine into my mouth, neither did I anoint myself at all, until three whole weeks were fulfilled.

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

But he who doubts is condemned if he eats, because it isn't of faith; and whatever is not of faith is sin.

"Say to the people, 'Sanctify yourselves against tomorrow, and you will eat flesh; for you have wept in the ears of Yahweh, saying, "Who will give us flesh to eat? For it was well with us in Egypt." Therefore Yahweh will give you flesh, and you will eat.

and you shall offer your burnt offerings, the flesh and the blood, on the altar of Yahweh your God; and the blood of your sacrifices shall be poured out on the altar of Yahweh your God; and you shall eat the flesh.

but that we write to them that they abstain from the pollution of idols, from sexual immorality, from what is strangled, and from blood.

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

For although by this time you should be teachers, you again need to have someone teach you the rudiments of the first principles of the oracles of God. You have come to need milk, and not solid food.

forbidding marriage and commanding to abstain from foods which God created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and know the truth.

Then they told Saul, saying, "Behold, the people are sinning against Yahweh, in that they eat meat with the blood." He said, "You have dealt treacherously. Roll a large stone to me this day!"

For your livestock also, and for the animals that are in your land, shall all its increase be for food.

"'These you may eat of all that are in the waters: whatever has fins and scales in the waters, in the seas, and in the rivers, that you may eat.

for the Kingdom of God is not eating and drinking, but righteousness, peace, and joy in the Holy Spirit.

"'You shall not eat any meat with the blood still in it; neither shall you use enchantments, nor practice sorcery.

Don't eat it raw, nor boiled at all with water, but roasted with fire; with its head, its legs and its inner parts.

who sit among the graves, and lodge in the secret places; who eat pig'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 king's dainties, nor with the wine which he drank: therefore he requested of the prince of the eunuchs that he might not defile himself.