49 Bible Verses about Eating Meat

Therefore, if food makes my brother stumble, I will never eat meat, lest I make my brother stumble.

It is good not to eat meat or drink wine or do anything that causes your brother to stumble.

You shall eat the flesh of your sons, and you shall eat the flesh of your daughters.

Food will not commend us to God. We are no worse off if we do not eat, and no better off if we do.

Eat whatever is sold in the meat market without raising any question on the ground of conscience.

One person believes he may eat anything, while the weak person eats only vegetables.

Let not the one who eats despise the one who abstains, and let not the one who abstains pass judgment on the one who eats, for God has welcomed him.

If it is eaten at all on the third day, it is tainted; it will not be accepted,

The one who observes the day, observes it in honor of the Lord. The one who eats, eats in honor of the Lord, since he gives thanks to God, while the one who abstains, abstains in honor of the Lord and gives thanks to God.

Every moving thing that lives shall be food for you. And as I gave you the green plants, I give you everything.

Do not, for the sake of food, destroy the work of God. Everything is indeed clean, but it is wrong for anyone to make another stumble by what he eats.

"Test your servants for ten days; let us be given vegetables to eat and water to drink.

But if someone says to you, "This has been offered in sacrifice," then do not eat it, for the sake of the one who informed you, and for the sake of conscience--

But you shall not eat flesh with its life, that is, its blood.

He shall not eat what dies of itself or is torn by beasts, and so make himself unclean by it: I am the LORD.'

Therefore let no one pass judgment on you in questions of food and drink, or with regard to a festival or a new moon or a Sabbath.

"Those who sanctify and purify themselves to go into the gardens, following one in the midst, eating pig's flesh and the abomination and mice, shall come to an end together, declares the LORD.

Only be sure that you do not eat the blood, for the blood is the life, and you shall not eat the life with the flesh.

Only you shall not eat the blood; you shall pour it out on the earth like water.

For if anyone sees you who have knowledge eating in an idol's temple, will he not be encouraged, if his conscience is weak, to eat food offered to idols?

You shall not eat any of their flesh, and you shall not touch their carcasses; they are unclean to you.

Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: "Add your burnt offerings to your sacrifices, and eat the flesh.

Whatever goes on its belly, and whatever goes on all fours, or whatever has many feet, any swarming thing that swarms on the ground, you shall not eat, for they are detestable.

Where am I to get meat to give to all this people? For they weep before me and say, 'Give us meat, that we may eat.'

"When the LORD your God enlarges your territory, as he has promised you, and you say, 'I will eat meat,' because you crave meat, you may eat meat whenever you desire.

Therefore, as to the eating of food offered to idols, we know that "an idol has no real existence," and that "there is no God but one."

But he said to them, "I have food to eat that you do not know about."

They shall eat the flesh that night, roasted on the fire; with unleavened bread and bitter herbs they shall eat it.

At the end of ten days it was seen that they were better in appearance and fatter in flesh than all the youths who ate the king's food.

"However, you may slaughter and eat meat within any of your towns, as much as you desire, according to the blessing of the LORD your God that he has given you. The unclean and the clean may eat of it, as of the gazelle and as of the deer.

Therefore say to them, Thus says the Lord GOD: You eat flesh with the blood and lift up your eyes to your idols and shed blood; shall you then possess the land?

But Peter said, "By no means, Lord; for I have never eaten anything that is common or unclean."

I ate no delicacies, no meat or wine entered my mouth, nor did I anoint myself at all, for the full three weeks.

These are the animals you may eat: the ox, the sheep, the goat,

But whoever has doubts is condemned if he eats, because the eating is not from faith. For whatever does not proceed from faith is sin.

And say to the people, 'Consecrate yourselves for tomorrow, and you shall eat meat, for you have wept in the hearing of the LORD, saying, "Who will give us meat to eat? For it was better for us in Egypt." Therefore the LORD will give you meat, and you shall eat.

and offer your burnt offerings, the flesh and the blood, on the altar of the LORD your God. The blood of your sacrifices shall be poured out on the altar of the LORD your God, but the flesh you may eat.

but should write to them to abstain from the things polluted by idols, and from sexual immorality, and from what has been 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 though by this time you ought to be teachers, you need someone to teach you again the basic principles of the oracles of God. You need milk, not solid food,

who forbid marriage and require abstinence from foods that God created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and know the truth.

Then they told Saul, "Behold, the people are sinning against the LORD by eating with the blood." And he said, "You have dealt treacherously; roll a great stone to me here."

and for your cattle and for the wild animals that are in your land: all its yield shall be for food.

"These you may eat, of all that are in the waters. Everything in the waters that has fins and scales, whether in the seas or in the rivers, you may eat.

For the kingdom of God is not a matter of eating and drinking but of righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit.

"You shall not eat any flesh with the blood in it. You shall not interpret omens or tell fortunes.

Do not eat any of it raw or boiled in water, but roasted, its head with its legs and its inner parts.

who sit in tombs, and spend the night in secret places; who eat pig's flesh, and broth of tainted meat is in their vessels;

But Daniel resolved that he would not defile himself with the king's food, or with the wine that he drank. Therefore he asked the chief of the eunuchs to allow him not to defile himself.