49 Bible Verses about Eating Meat

Therefore, if food that I eat causes my brother to stumble, I will never eat meat again, in order to keep my brother from stumbling.

The right thing to do is to avoid eating meat, drinking wine, or doing anything else that makes your brother stumble, upset, or weak.

At that time, you'll eat the flesh of your sons and you'll eat the flesh of your daughters.

However, food will not bring us closer to God. We are no worse off if we do not eat food that has been offered to an idol, and no better off if we do.

Eat anything that is sold in the meat market without raising any question about it on the grounds of conscience,

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

The person who eats any kind of food must not ridicule the person who does not eat them, and the person who does not eat certain foods must not criticize the person who eats them, for God has accepted him.

If it is eaten on the third day, it's unclean. It won't be accepted.

The one who observes a special day, observes it to honor the Lord. The one who eats, eats to honor the Lord, since he gives thanks to God. And the one who does not eat, refrains from eating to honor the Lord; yet he, too, gives thanks to God.

"Every living, moving creature will be food for you. Just as I gave you green plants before, so now you have everything.

Do not destroy God's action for the sake of food. Everything is clean, but it is wrong to make another person stumble because of what you eat.

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

However, if someone says to you, "This was offered as a sacrifice," don't eat it, both out of consideration for the one who told you and also for the sake of conscience.

However, you are not to eat meat with its life that is, its blood in it!

He is not to eat the carcass of an animal that was torn by animals, thereby defiling himself with it. I am the LORD.

Therefore, let no one judge you in matters of food and drink or with respect to a festival, a New Moon, or Sabbath days.

"Those who consecrate and purify themselves to enter the groves, following the one at the center of those who eat the meat of pigs, disgusting things, and rats, are all alike," says the LORD.

Only be sure to refrain from eating blood, because blood is the source of life and you must not consume blood with the meat.

Only, you must not consume the blood; instead, pour it out on the ground as you would water.

For if anyone with a weak conscience sees you, who know better, eating in an idol's temple, he will be encouraged to eat what has been offered to idols, won't he?

You are not to eat their flesh or even touch their carcasses. They are to be unclean for you."

This is what the LORD of the Heavenly Armies, the God of Israel, says:

You are not to eat anything that crawls on its belly, anything that walks on four legs, anything that has many legs, or any of the swarming creatures that swarm the land, because they're detestable.

Where am I going to get meat to give this people? After all, they're crying in front of me, "Give us meat to eat!'

When the LORD your God enlarges your territory just as he told you and you say "I want to eat meat' since you desire to eat it, you may do so as much as you please.

Now concerning eating food offered to idols: We know that no idol is real in this world and that there is only one God.

But he told them, "I have food to eat that you know nothing about."

That very night they're to eat the meat, roasted over the fire, with unleavened bread and bitter herbs.

At the end of ten days their appearance was better and their faces were well-nourished compared to the young men who ate the king's rich food.

"You may slaughter and eat as much meat as you desire, according to the blessing of the LORD your God, when he provides for you in all your cities. Both ritually unqualified and qualified people may eat it as they would gazelle and deer.

So tell them, "This is what the Lord GOD says: "You keep eating flesh along with its blood, you keep looking to your idols, and you keep shedding blood, and you're going to take possession of the land?

But Peter said, "Absolutely not, Lord, for I have never eaten anything that is common or unclean!"

I ate no fancy foods neither meat nor wine entered my mouth. Furthermore, I didn't use any ointment until the end of the entire three weeks.

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

But the person who has doubts is condemned if he eats, because he does not act in faith; and anything that is not done in faith is sin.

"But give this command to the people: "You are to consecrate yourselves, because tomorrow you're going to eat meat, since you've complained where the LORD can hear it, "Who can give us meat to eat? After all, life was better with us in Egypt." Therefore, the LORD is going to give you meat and you'll eat

You must offer your burnt offerings, both the meat and the blood, on the altar of the LORD your God. You must offer the blood by pouring it on the altar of the LORD your God while you consume the meat.

Instead, we should write to them to keep away from things polluted by idols, from sexual immorality, from anything strangled, and from blood.

David hid in the field. When the New Moon arrived, the king sat down to eat.

In fact, though by now you should be teachers, you still need someone to teach you the basic truths of God's word. You have become people who need milk instead of solid food.

They will try to stop people from marrying and from eating certain foods, which God created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and know the truth.

Someone reported this to Saul: "Right now the army is sinning against the LORD by eating meat with the blood." He said, "You have acted treacherously. Roll a large stone to me today."

The cattle and the wild animals in your land everything it produces are for your food.

"You may eat anything that lives in the water that is, you may eat anything that has fins and scales either from the seas or from the rivers.

For God's kingdom does not consist of food and drink, but of righteousness, peace, and joy produced by the Holy Spirit.

"You are not to eat anything containing blood, engage in occult practices, or practice fortune telling.

Don't eat any of it raw or boiled in water. Instead, roast it over the fire, with its head, legs, and internal organs.

who sit among graves, and spend the night in secret places; who eat pigs' meat, with the broth of detestable things in their pots;

Daniel determined within himself not to become defiled by the king's menu of rich foods or by the king's wine, so he requested permission from the chief officer not to defile himself.