30 Bible Verses about Eating
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fed you in the desert with manna (which your ancestors had never before known) so that he might by humbling you test you and eventually bring good to you.
Then the Lord God commanded the man, "You may freely eat fruit from every tree of the orchard, but you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, for when you eat from it you will surely die."
Now when you come together at the same place, you are not really eating the Lord's Supper. For when it is time to eat, everyone proceeds with his own supper. One is hungry and another becomes drunk. Do you not have houses so that you can eat and drink? Or are you trying to show contempt for the church of God by shaming those who have nothing? What should I say to you? Should I praise you? I will not praise you for this!
For you know yourselves how you must imitate us, because we did not behave without discipline among you, and we did not eat anyone's food without paying. Instead, in toil and drudgery we worked night and day in order not to burden any of you. It was not because we do not have that right, but to give ourselves as an example for you to imitate.read more.
For even when we were with you, we used to give you this command: "If anyone is not willing to work, neither should he eat."
Their end is destruction, their god is the belly, they exult in their shame, and they think about earthly things.
Then there was a great outcry from the people and their wives against their fellow Jews. There were those who said, "With our sons and daughters, we are many. We must obtain grain in order to eat and stay alive."
There you will worship gods made by human hands -- wood and stone that can neither see, hear, eat, nor smell.
I was once young, now I am old. I have never seen a godly man abandoned, or his children forced to search for food.
Let the oppressed eat and be filled! Let those who seek his help praise the Lord! May you live forever!
The righteous has enough food to satisfy his appetite, but the belly of the wicked lacks food.
You will have plenty to eat, and your hunger will be fully satisfied; you will praise the name of the Lord your God, who has acted wondrously in your behalf. My people will never again be put to shame.
Therefore do not let anyone judge you with respect to food or drink, or in the matter of a feast, new moon, or Sabbath days -- these are only the shadow of the things to come, but the reality is Christ!
From Thematic Bible
Eating » Admonitions concerning eating
Then Jesus said to his disciples, "Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat, or about your body, what you will wear.
When you sit down to eat with a ruler, consider carefully what is before you, and put a knife to your throat if you possess a large appetite.
So whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do everything for the glory of God.
Eat anything that is sold in the marketplace without questions of conscience,
Do not let me have evil desires, or participate in sinful activities with men who behave wickedly. I will not eat their delicacies.
Eating » Reclining on couches
Then when a woman of that town, who was a sinner, learned that Jesus was dining at the Pharisee's house, she brought an alabaster jar of perfumed oil. As she stood behind him at his feet, weeping, she began to wet his feet with her tears. She wiped them with her hair, kissed them, and anointed them with the perfumed oil.
Therefore they will now be the first to go into exile, and the religious banquets where they sprawl on couches will end.
Then the disciple whom Jesus loved leaned back against Jesus' chest and asked him, "Lord, who is it?"
Eating » Favored guests served a double portion
He gave them portions of the food set before him, but the portion for Benjamin was five times greater than the portions for any of the others. They drank with Joseph until they all became drunk.
Eating » The host acting as waiter
Abraham then took some curds and milk, along with the calf that had been prepared, and placed the food before them. They ate while he was standing near them under a tree.
Eating » Ablutions before
"Why do your disciples disobey the tradition of the elders? For they don't wash their hands when they eat."
Eating » Sitting at table
So they got up early on the next day and offered up burnt offerings and brought peace offerings, and the people sat down to eat and drink, and they rose up to play.
Eating » Table used in
Adoni-Bezek said, "Seventy kings, with thumbs and big toes cut off, used to lick up food scraps under my table. God has repaid me for what I did to them." They brought him to Jerusalem, where he died.
Plague » On the israelites » After » Eating » Quail
But while the meat was still between their teeth, before they chewed it, the anger of the Lord burned against the people, and the Lord struck the people with a very great plague.
Topics on Eating
Animals Eating
Exodus 22:5"If a man grazes his livestock in a field or a vineyard, and he lets the livestock loose and they graze in the field of another man, he must make restitution from the best of his own field and the best of his own vineyard.
Animals Eating People
Genesis 37:20Come now, let's kill him, throw him into one of the cisterns, and then say that a wild animal ate him. Then we'll see how his dreams turn out!"
Birds Eating
Genesis 40:19In three more days Pharaoh will decapitate you and impale you on a pole. Then the birds will eat your flesh from you."
Eating And Drinking
Ecclesiastes 3:13and also that everyone should eat and drink, and find enjoyment in all his toil, for these things are a gift from God.
Eating Before God
Exodus 12:4If any household is too small for a lamb, the man and his next-door neighbor are to take a lamb according to the number of people -- you will make your count for the lamb according to how much each one can eat.
Eating Cattle
1 Kings 4:23ten calves fattened in the stall, twenty calves from the pasture, and a hundred sheep, not to mention rams, gazelles, deer, and well-fed birds.
Eating Christ's Body
Mark 14:22While they were eating, he took bread, and after giving thanks he broke it, gave it to them, and said, "Take it. This is my body."
Eating Corpses
Genesis 40:19In three more days Pharaoh will decapitate you and impale you on a pole. Then the birds will eat your flesh from you."
Eating Disorders
1 Corinthians 6:19-20Or do you not know that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God, and you are not your own?
Eating Drinking And Rejoicing
Deuteronomy 12:7Both you and your families must feast there before the Lord your God and rejoice in all the output of your labor with which he has blessed you.
Eating Forbidden Food
Genesis 2:17but you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, for when you eat from it you will surely die."
Eating Meat
1 Corinthians 8:13For this reason, if food causes my brother or sister to sin, I will never eat meat again, so that I may not cause one of them to sin.
Eating With Mouths
Psalm 81:10I am the Lord, your God, the one who brought you out of the land of Egypt. Open your mouth wide and I will fill it!'
Eating, Metaphorical Use
John 6:50This is the bread that has come down from heaven, so that a person may eat from it and not die.
People Eating
John 4:31Meanwhile the disciples were urging him, "Rabbi, eat something."
Pots For Cooking And Eating
Deuteronomy 28:5Your basket and your mixing bowl will be blessed.
