19 Bible Verses about Eating Meat

Therefore, if what I eat makes my brother fall, I will never eat meat again, rather than make my brother fall.

The right thing to do is to eat no meat at all and to drink no wine or do anything else if it hurts your brother's conscience.

But food is not going to affect our standing with God. We are none the worse if we do not eat it, and none the better if we do.

Eat anything for sale in the meat market without raising any question, as far as conscience is concerned,

One man's faith allows him to eat anything, while the overscrupulous man eats nothing but vegetables.

The man who will eat anything must not look down on the man who abstains from some things, and the man who abstains from them must not criticize the one who does not, for God has accepted him.

The man who observes the day does it in the Lord's honor. The man who eats does it in the Lord's honor, for he gives God thanks, and the man who abstains does it in the Lord's honor, and gives him thanks.

You must not, just for the sake of food, undo the work of God. It is true, everything is clean, but it is wrong for a man to hurt the consciences of others by what he eats.

But if someone says to you, "This meat has been offered in sacrifice," let it alone, on account of the man who told you and his conscientious scruples;

So no one can call you to account for what you eat or drink, or do about annual or monthly feasts or Sabbaths.

For if somebody sees you, who are intelligent about this matter, attending a dinner in an idol's temple, will not he, with his sensitive conscience, be led to eat meat that is offered to idols?

As to eating things, then, that have been offered to idols, we all know that no idol has any real existence, and that there is no God but one.

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

But Peter said, "Never, sir! For I have never eaten anything that was not ceremonially cleansed."

but the man who has misgivings about eating, and then eats, is thereby condemned, for he is not following his convictions, and anything that does not rest on conviction is wrong.

but we should write to them to avoid anything that has been contaminated by idols, immorality, the meat of strangled animals, and the tasting of blood.

For although from the length of your Christian experience you ought to be teaching others, you actually need someone to teach you over again the very elements of Christian truth, and you have come to need milk instead of solid food.

who forbid people to marry and insist on abstinence from certain kinds of food that God created for men who believe and understand the truth to enjoy and give thanks for.

The Kingdom of God is not a matter of what we eat or drink, but of uprightness, peace, and happiness through the possession of the holy Spirit.