49 Bible Verses about Eating Meat

wherefore, if victuals cause my brother to stumble, I may eat no flesh -- to the age -- that my brother I may not cause to stumble.

Right it is not to eat flesh, nor to drink wine, nor to do anything in which thy brother doth stumble, or is made to fall, or is weak.

'And ye have eaten the flesh of your sons; even flesh of your daughters ye do eat.

But victuals do not commend us to God, for neither if we may eat are we in advance; nor if we may not eat, are we behind;

Whatever in the meat-market is sold eat ye, not inquiring, because of the conscience,

one doth believe that he may eat all things -- and he who is weak doth eat herbs;

let not him who is eating despise him who is not eating: and let not him who is not eating judge him who is eating, for God did receive him.

and if it be really eaten on the third day, it is an abomination, it is not pleasing,

He who is regarding the day, to the Lord he doth regard it, and he who is not regarding the day, to the Lord he doth not regard it. He who is eating, to the Lord he doth eat, for he doth give thanks to God; and he who is not eating, to the Lord he doth not eat, and doth give thanks to God.

Every creeping thing that is alive, to you it is for food; as the green herb I have given to you the whole;

for the sake of victuals cast not down the work of God; all things, indeed, are pure, but evil is to the man who is eating through stumbling.

'Try, I pray thee, thy servants, ten days; and they give to us of the vegetables, and we eat, and water, and we drink;

and if any one may say to you, 'This is a thing sacrificed to an idol,' -- do not eat, because of that one who shewed it, and of the conscience, for the Lord's is the earth and its fulness:

only flesh in its life -- its blood -- ye do not eat.

a carcase or torn thing he doth not eat, for uncleanness thereby; I am Jehovah.

Let no one, then, judge you in eating or in drinking, or in respect of a feast, or of a new moon, or of sabbaths,

Those sanctifying and cleansing themselves at the gardens, After Ahad in the midst, Eating flesh of the sow, And of the abomination, and of the mouse, Together are consumed, An affirmation of Jehovah.

Only, be sure not to eat the blood, for the blood is the life, and thou dost not eat the life with the flesh;

Only, the blood ye do not eat -- on the earth thou dost pour it as water;

for if any one may see thee that hast knowledge in an idol's temple reclining at meat -- shall not his conscience -- he being infirm -- be emboldened to eat the things sacrificed to idols,

Of their flesh ye do not eat, and against their carcase ye do not come -- unclean they are to you.

Thus said Jehovah of Hosts, God of Israel, Your burnt-offerings add to your sacrifices, And eat ye flesh.

any thing going on the belly, and any going on four, unto every multiplier of feet, to every teeming thing which is teeming on the earth -- ye do not eat them, for they are an abomination;

Whence have I flesh to give to all this people? for they weep unto me, saying, Give to us flesh, and we eat.

When Jehovah thy God doth enlarge thy border, as He hath spoken to thee, and thou hast said, Let me eat flesh -- for thy soul desireth to eat flesh -- of all the desire of thy soul thou dost eat flesh.

Concerning the eating then of the things sacrificed to idols, we have known that an idol is nothing in the world, and that there is no other God except one;

and he said to them, 'I have food to eat that ye have not known.'

'And they have eaten the flesh in this night, roast with fire; with unleavened things and bitters they do eat it;

and at the end of ten days their appearance hath appeared better and fatter in flesh then any of the lads who are eating the king's portion of food.

'Only, with all the desire of thy soul thou dost sacrifice, and hast eaten flesh according to the blessing of Jehovah thy God which He hath given to thee, in all thy gates; the unclean and the clean do eat it, as of the roe, and as of the hart.

Therefore say unto them: Thus said the Lord Jehovah: With the blood ye do eat, And your eyes ye lift up unto your idols, And blood ye shed, and the land ye inherit!

And Peter said, 'Not so, Lord; because at no time did I eat anything common or unclean;'

desirable bread I have not eaten, and flesh and wine hath not come in unto my mouth, and I have not anointed myself at all, till the completion of three weeks of days.

this is the beast which ye do eat: ox, lamb of the sheep, or kid of the goats,

and he who is making a difference, if he may eat, hath been condemned, because it is not of faith; and all that is not of faith is sin.

And unto the people thou dost say, Sanctify yourselves for to-morrow, and ye have eaten flesh (for ye have wept in the ears of Jehovah, saying, Who doth give us flesh? for we had good in Egypt) -- and Jehovah hath given to you flesh, and ye have eaten.

and thou hast made thy burnt-offerings -- the flesh and the blood -- on the altar of Jehovah thy God; and the blood of thy sacrifices is poured out by the altar of Jehovah thy God, and the flesh thou dost eat.

but to write to them to abstain from the pollutions of the idols, and the whoredom, and the strangled thing; and the blood;

And David is hidden in the field, and it is the new moon, and the king sitteth down by the food to eat,

for even owing to be teachers, because of the time, again ye have need that one teach you what are the elements of the beginning of the oracles of God, and ye have become having need of milk, and not of strong food,

forbidding to marry -- to abstain from meats that God created to be received with thanksgiving by those believing and acknowledging the truth,

And they declare to Saul, saying, 'Lo, the people are sinning against Jehovah, to eat with the blood.' And he saith, 'Ye have dealt treacherously, roll unto me to-day a great stone.'

and to thy cattle, and to the beast which is in thy land, is all thine increase for food.

This ye do eat of all which are in the waters; any one that hath fins and scales in the waters, in the seas, and in the brooks, them ye do eat;

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

'Ye do not eat with the blood; ye do not enchant, nor observe clouds.

ye do not eat of it raw, or boiled at all in water, but roast with fire, its head with its legs, and with its inwards;

Who are dwelling among sepulchres, And lodge in reserved places, Who are eating flesh of the sow, And a piece of abominable things -- their vessels.

And Daniel purposeth in his heart that he will not pollute himself with the king's portion of food, and with the wine of his drinking, and he seeketh of the chief of the eunuchs that he may not pollute himself.