37 Bible Verses about Eating And Drinking
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It is also the gift of God whenever anyone eats, drinks, and enjoys all his efforts.
There is nothing better for man than to eat, drink, and enjoy his work. I have seen that even this is from God’s hand,
Here is what I have seen to be good: it is appropriate to eat, drink, and experience good in all the labor one does under the sun during the few days of his life God has given him, because that is his reward.
So I commended enjoyment because there is nothing better for man under the sun than to eat, drink, and enjoy himself, for this will accompany him in his labor during the days of his life that God gives him under the sun.
Then all the people began to eat and drink, send portions, and have a great celebration, because they had understood the words that were explained to them.
Elijah said to Ahab, “Go up, eat and drink, for there is the sound of a rainstorm.”
for it’s like someone calculating inwardly.
“Eat and drink,” he says to you,
but his heart is not with you.
M I have come to my garden—my sister, my bride.
I gather my myrrh with my spices.
I eat my honeycomb with my honey.
I drink my wine with my milk.
N Eat, friends!
Drink, be intoxicated with love!
But look: joy and gladness,
butchering of cattle, slaughtering of sheep,
eating of meat, and drinking of wine—
“Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die!”
If I fought wild animals in Ephesus with only human hope, what good did that do me? If the dead are not raised, Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die.
Then I’ll say to myself, “You have many goods stored up for many years. Take it easy; eat, drink, and enjoy yourself.”’
Prepare a table, and spread out a carpet!
Eat and drink!
Rise up, you princes, and oil the shields!
Early the next morning they arose, offered burnt offerings, and presented fellowship offerings. The people sat down to eat and drink, then got up to play.
Don’t become idolaters as some of them were; as it is written, The people sat down to eat and drink, and got up to play.
Wash, put on perfumed oil, and wear your best clothes. Go down to the threshing floor, but don’t let the man know you are there until he has finished eating and drinking.
After Boaz ate, drank, and was in good spirits, he went to lie down at the end of the pile of barley. Then she went in secretly, uncovered his feet, and lay down.
Then he and the men with him ate and drank and spent the night.
When they got up in the morning, he said, “Send me to my master.”
So he led him, and there were the Amalekites, spread out over the entire area, eating, drinking, and celebrating because of the great amount of plunder they had taken from the land of the Philistines and the land of Judah.
For in those days before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day Noah boarded the ark.
People went on eating, drinking, marrying and giving in marriage until the day Noah boarded the ark, and the flood came and destroyed them all.
It will be the same as it was in the days of Lot: People went on eating, drinking, buying, selling, planting, building.
Are you a king because you excel in cedar?
Didn’t your father eat and drink
and administer justice and righteousness?
Then it went well with him.
“Son of man, eat your bread with trembling and drink your water with shaking and anxiety.
Then say to the people of the land: This is what the Lord God says about the residents of Jerusalem in the land of Israel: They will eat their bread with anxiety and drink their water in dread, for their land will be stripped of everything in it because of the violence of all who live there.
Then he issued a decree in Nineveh:
By order of the king and his nobles: No man or beast, herd or flock, is to taste anything at all. They must not eat or drink water.
The Son of Man came eating and drinking, and they say, ‘Look, a glutton and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners!’ Yet wisdom is vindicated by her deeds.”
The Son of Man has come eating and drinking, and you say, ‘Look, a glutton and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners!’
and starts to beat his fellow slaves, and eats and drinks with drunkards,
But if that slave says in his heart, ‘My master is delaying his coming,’ and starts to beat the male and female slaves, and to eat and drink and get drunk,
Then they said to Him, “John’s disciples fast often and say prayers, and those of the Pharisees do the same, but Yours eat and drink.”
Then you will say, ‘We ate and drank in Your presence, and You taught in our streets!’
Instead, will he not tell him, ‘Prepare something for me to eat, get ready, and serve me while I eat and drink; later you can eat and drink’?
so that you may eat and drink at My table in My kingdom. And you will sit on thrones judging the 12 tribes of Israel.
Therefore, whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do everything for God’s glory.
Don’t you have houses to eat and drink in? Or do you look down on the church of God and embarrass those who have nothing? What should I say to you? Should I praise you? I do not praise you for this!
