49 Bible Verses about Eating Meat
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Therefore if food causes my brother to stumble, I will no, not eat meat into the age, so that I may not cause my brother to stumble.
It is good not to eat meats, nor to drink wine, nor in whatever thy brother stumbles against, or is caused to stumble, or becomes weak.
And ye shall eat the flesh of your sons, and the flesh of your daughters ye shall eat.
But food does not present us to God, for neither if we eat are we ahead, nor if we do not eat are we behind.
Eat everything being sold in a meat market, inquiring of nothing because of the conscience,
The man who eats should not disdain the man who does not eat, and the man who does not eat should not criticize the man who eats, for God has received him.
And if it is eaten at all on the third day, it is an abomination. It shall not be accepted.
He who regards the day, regards it for Lord. And he who does not regard the day, for Lord he does not regard it. And he who eats, eats for Lord, for he expresses thanks to God. And he who does not eat, for Lord he does not eat, and
Every moving thing that lives shall be food for you. As the green herb, I have given you all.
Do not tear down the work of God because of food. All things indeed are clean, but it is wrong to the man who eats through hindrance.
Test thy servants, I beseech thee, ten days, and let them give us vegetables to eat, and water to drink.
But if any man say to you, This is a sacrifice to an idol, do not eat for the sake of that man who informed, and the conscience, for the earth is the Lord's, and the fullness of it.
That which dies of itself, or is torn by beasts, he shall not eat to defile himself with it. I am LORD.
Let not any man therefore judge you in eating, or in drinking, or in the matter of a festival or a new moon or Sabbaths,
Those who sanctify themselves and purify themselves [to go] to the gardens, behind one in the midst, eating swine's flesh, and the abomination, and the mouse, they shall come to an end together, says LORD.
Only be sure that thou not eat the blood. For the blood is the life, and thou shall not eat the life with the flesh.
Only ye shall not eat the blood. Thou shall pour it out upon the ground as water.
For if some man sees thee, who have knowledge, dining in an idol-temple, will not his conscience, being weak, be strengthened to eat things sacrificed to idols?
Of their flesh ye shall not eat, and their carcasses ye shall not touch, they are unclean to you.
Thus says LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: Add your burnt-offerings to your sacrifices, and eat ye flesh.
Whatever goes upon the belly, and whatever goes upon all fours, or whatever has many feet, even all creeping things that creep upon the earth, them ye shall not eat, for they are an abomination.
From where should I have flesh to give to all this people? For they weep to me, saying, Give us flesh, that we may eat.
When LORD thy God shall enlarge thy border, as he has promised thee, and thou shall say, I will eat flesh, because thy soul desires to eat flesh, thou may eat flesh, after all the desire of thy soul.
Therefore about eating the things sacrificed to idols, we know that an idol is nothing in the world, and that there is no other God except one.
And they shall eat the flesh in that night, roasted with fire, and unleavened bread, with bitter herbs they shall eat it.
And at the end of ten days their countenances appeared finer, and they were fuller in flesh, than all the youths who ate of the king's dainties.
Notwithstanding, thou may kill and eat flesh within all thy gates, after all the desire of thy soul, according to the blessing of LORD thy God which he has given thee, the unclean and the clean may eat of it, as of the gazelle, and
Therefore say to them, Thus says lord LORD: Ye eat with the blood, and lift up your eyes to your idols, and shed blood. And shall ye possess the land?
I ate no pleasant bread. Neither flesh nor wine came into my mouth. Neither did I anoint myself at all, till three whole weeks were fulfilled.
These are the beasts which ye may eat: the ox, the sheep, and the goat,
But he who doubts is condemned if he eats, because it is not from faith, and everything that is not from faith is sin.
And say thou to the people, Sanctify yourselves against tomorrow, and ye shall eat flesh, for ye have wept in the ears of LORD, saying, Who shall give us flesh to eat? For it was well with us in Egypt. Therefore LORD will give you
And thou shall offer thy burnt-offerings, the flesh and the blood, upon the altar of LORD thy God, and the blood of thy sacrifices shall be poured out upon the altar of LORD thy God, and thou shall eat the flesh.
but to write to them, to abstain from the pollutions of idols, and from fornication, and from what is strangled, and from blood.
So David hid himself in the field. And when the new moon came, the king sat down to eat food.
For also men who ought to be teachers because of the time, ye have need again for some man to teach you the rudiments of the beginning of the oracles of God, and have become men who have need of milk, and not of solid food.
forbidding to marry, to abstain from foods, which God created for partaking with thankfulness by those who believe and know the truth.
Then they told Saul, saying, Behold, the people sin against LORD, in that they eat with the blood. And he said, ye have dealt treacherously. Roll a great stone to me this day.
And for thy cattle, and for the beasts that are in thy land, all the increase of it shall be for food.
These may ye eat of all that are in the waters: whatever has fins and scales in the waters, in the seas, and in the rivers, that may ye eat.
For the kingdom of God is not eating and drinking, but righteousness and peace and joy in Holy Spirit.
Ye shall not eat anything with the blood. Neither shall ye use enchantments, nor practice augury.
who sit among the graves, and lodge in the secret places, who eat swine'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 food, nor with the wine which he drank. Therefore he requested of the ruler of the eunuchs that he might not defile himself.