30 Bible Verses about Eating
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He fed you in the desert with manna. Your fathers had never seen this. He did this in order to humble you and test you. But he also did this so that things would go well for you in the end.
Jehovah God commanded the man: You are free to eat from any tree in the garden. But you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. When you eat of it you will surely die.
When you come together to one place, this is not to eat the Lord's Supper. For in eating every one goes ahead with out waiting for everybody else. One is hungry and another is drunk. Do you not have houses in which to eat and drink? Or do you despise the congregation of God, and shame them that have nothing? What shall I say to you? Shall I praise you in this? I will not praise you!
You know what you must do to imitate us. We lived a disciplined life among you. We did not eat anyone's food without paying for it. Instead, we worked hard and struggled night and day in order not to be a burden to any of you. It is not because we do not have the right, but to make ourselves an example for you to imitate us.read more.
While we were with you, we used to tell you: Whoever refuses to work is not allowed to eat.
Their end is destruction. Their god is their belly. Their glory is in their shame. They set their mind on earthly things.
Then there was a great outcry from the people and their wives against their countrymen the Jews. Some said: We with our sons and our daughters are a great number. Let us get grain, so that we may have food for our needs.
You will serve gods that are the work of men's hands. Made of wood and stone. They cannot see, hear, eat or smell.
My heart has been stricken like grass and has withered away. In fact I forget to eat my bread.
I have been young, and now I am old, but I have never seen a righteous person abandoned or his descendants begging for food.
Humble (meek) people will eat until they are full. Those who look to Jehovah will praise him. May your heart live forever.
The righteous eats to satisfaction. The belly of the wicked is in need.
You will have plenty to eat and be satisfied. You will praise the name of Jehovah your God. He has dealt wondrously with you. My people will never again be put to shame.
Let no man judge you in food or in drink or in respect of a feast day or a new moon or a Sabbath day. They are a shadow of the things to come; but the substance belongs to Christ.
From Thematic Bible
Eating » Admonitions concerning eating
He told his disciples: Therefore I say to you, do not be anxious for your life, what you eat or what you wear on your body.
When you sit to eat with a ruler, consider diligently what is before you. Put a knife to your throat, if you are a man with a strong desire (lust) (passion).
Whether you eat, or drink, or whatever you do, do everything to the glory of God.
Eat whatever is sold in the meat market without asking questions for the sake of conscience.
Do not let me be persuaded to do anything evil or to become involved with wickedness, with people who are troublemakers. Do not let me taste their delicacies.
Eating » Reclining on couches
A sinful woman went to the Pharisee's house. She brought an alabaster vase filled with ointment. Standing by his feet weeping, she wet his feet with her tears. She wiped them with the hair of her head. Then she kissed his feet and anointed them with the ointment.
Therefore you will be captured with the first that go captive. Your feasting and lounging will pass away.
Eating » Favored guests served a double portion
They were served food from Joseph's table. And Benjamin was given five times as much as each of the others. So Joseph's brothers drank with him and had a good time.
Eating » The host acting as waiter
He took butter and milk and the calf that he had prepared, and set it before them. He stood by them under the tree as they ate.
Eating » Ablutions before
They questioned him: Why do your disciples go against the teaching of the fathers? They eat food with unwashed hands.
Eating » Sitting at table
Early the next day the people sacrificed burnt offerings and brought peace offerings. After that they sat down to a feast, which turned into an orgy.
Eating » Table used in
And Adoni-bezek said: Seventy kings with their big toes cut off have gathered food scrapes under my table. God has repaid me for what I have done. So they brought him to Jerusalem where he died.
Plague » On the israelites » After » Eating » Quail
While the meat was still in their mouths, before they had even had a chance to chew it, Jehovah became angry with the people and struck them with a severe plague.
Topics on Eating
Animals Eating
Exodus 22:5Someone lets his livestock graze in a field or a vineyard. They stray and graze in another person's field. He must make up for what the damaged field was expected to produce. If he lets them ruin the whole field with their grazing, he must make up from his own field for the loss with the best from his field and vineyard.
Animals Eating People
Genesis 37:20Let us kill him and throw him into a water pit. We can say that some wild animal ate him. Then we will see what happens to those dreams.
Birds Eating
Genesis 40:19In three more days Pharaoh will lift up your head from you. He will hang you on a tree, and the birds will eat your flesh off you.
Eating And Drinking
Ecclesiastes 3:13Every man should eat and drink and enjoy the good of all his labor. It is the gift of God.
Eating Before God
Exodus 12:4A household may be too small to eat a whole animal. That household and the one next-door can share one animal. Choose your animal based on the number of people and what each person can eat.
Eating Cattle
1 Kings 4:23Also needed were ten stall-fed cattle, twenty pasture-fed cattle, and one hundred sheep, besides deer, gazelles, roebucks, and fowl (cuckoo).
Eating Christ's Body
Mark 14:22While they were eating, he took bread, and after blessing it, he gave the broken bread to them, and said: Take it, this means (represents) my body.
Eating Corpses
Genesis 40:19In three more days Pharaoh will lift up your head from you. He will hang you on a tree, and the birds will eat your flesh off you.
Eating Disorders
1 Corinthians 6:19-20What? Do you not know that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit? That one (Greek: hos he ho which, that one) is in you. You received it from God. You are not your own.
Eating Drinking And Rejoicing
Deuteronomy 12:7You and your households should eat there before Jehovah your God, and rejoice in all your undertakings that Jehovah your God has blessed.
Eating Forbidden Food
Genesis 2:17But you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. When you eat of it you will surely die.
Eating Meat
1 Corinthians 8:13If food makes my brother stumble I will eat no food at all so I do not make my brother stumble.
Eating With Mouths
Psalm 81:10I, Jehovah, am your God! I brought you up from the land of Egypt. Open your mouth wide and I will fill it.
Eating, Metaphorical Use
John 6:50This is the bread that comes down out of heaven that a man may eat of it and not die.
Pots For Cooking And Eating
Deuteronomy 28:5Jehovah will bless your grain crops and the food you prepare from them.
