49 Bible Verses about Eating Meat

Therefore, if food offends my brother, I will eat no flesh forever, that I do not offend my brother.

It is good neither to eat flesh, nor to drink wine, nor anything by which your brother stumbles, or is offended, or is made weak.

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

But food does not commend us to God. For neither if we eat are we the better, nor if we do not eat are we the worse.

Eat whatever is sold in the meat market, asking no question for conscience' sake;

For indeed one believes to eat all things; but being weak, another eats vegetables.

Do not let him who eats despise him who does not eat; and do not let him who does not eat judge him who eats, for God has received him.

And if it is eaten at all on the third day, it is abominable. It shall not be accepted.

He who regards the day regards it to the Lord; and he not regarding the day, does not regard it to the Lord. He who eats, eats to the Lord, for he gives God thanks; and he who does not eat, does not eat to the Lord, and gives God thanks.

Every moving thing that lives shall be food for you. I have given you all things, even as the green herb.

Do not undo the work of God for food. Truly, all things indeed are clean, but it is bad to the man eating because of a stumbling-block.

I beg you, try your servants ten days. And let them give us vegetables to eat and water to drink.

But if anyone says to you, This is slain in sacrifice to idols, do not eat for the sake of him who showed it, and for conscience' sake; "for the earth is the Lord's, and the fullness of it";

But you shall not eat of flesh with the life in it, or the blood of it.

He shall not eat a dead body or one torn, to defile himself with them. I am Jehovah.

Therefore let no one judge you in food or in drink, or in respect of a feast, or of the new moon, or of the sabbaths.

Those who sanctify themselves, and purify themselves to go into the gardens, behind one tree in the middle, eating swine's flesh, and the hateful thing, and the mouse, will be cut off together, says Jehovah.

Only be sure that you do not eat the blood. For the blood is the life. And you may not eat the life with the flesh.

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

For if anyone sees you who have knowledge sitting in an idol temple, will not the weak one's conscience be lifted up so as to eat things sacrificed to idols?

You shall not eat of their flesh, and you shall not touch their dead body. They are unclean to you.

So says Jehovah of Hosts, the God of Israel: Put your burnt offerings to your sacrifices, and eat flesh.

Anything going on its belly, and any going on all four, and all having many feet, even every swarming thing that swarms on the earth, you shall not eat them. For they are an abomination.

From where should I get flesh to give to all this people? For they weep to me, saying, Give us flesh that we may eat.

When Jehovah your God shall make your border larger, as He has promised you, and you shall say, I will eat flesh, because your soul longs to eat flesh; you may eat flesh, whatever your soul desires.

Then concerning the eating of the things sacrificed to idols, we know that an idol is nothing in the world, and that there is no other God except one.

But He said to them, I have food to eat which you do not know.

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

And at the end of ten days their faces looked fairer and fatter in flesh than all the boys who had eaten the king's food.

However, with all your soul's desire you shall sacrifice and eat flesh in all your gates, according to the blessing of Jehovah your God which He has given you, the clean and the unclean, one may eat, as of the gazelle, and as of the hart.

So say to them, So says the Lord Jehovah: You eat with the blood, and lift up your eyes to your idols, and shed blood; and shall you possess the land?

But Peter said, Not so, Lord, for I have never eaten anything that is common or unclean.

I ate no food for delight, neither came flesh nor wine in my mouth, nor did I anoint myself at all, until three whole weeks were fulfilled.

These are the animals which you shall eat: the ox, the sheep, and the goat,

But, the one doubting, if he eats, he has been condemned, because it is not of faith; and all that is not of faith is sin.

And say to the people, Sanctify yourselves for tomorrow, and you shall eat flesh. For you have wept in the ears of the Lord, saying, Who shall give us flesh to eat, for it was well with us in Egypt? Therefore Jehovah will give you flesh, and you shall eat.

And you shall offer your burnt offerings, the flesh and the blood, on the altar of Jehovah your God. And the blood of your sacrifices shall be poured out on the altar of Jehovah your God, and you shall eat the flesh.

but that we write to them that they should abstain from pollutions of idols, and from fornication, and from things strangled, and from blood.

And David hid himself in the field. And when the new moon had come, the king sat down by the food to eat.

For indeed because of the time, you ought to be teachers, you have need that one teach you again what are the first principles of the oracles of God. And you have become in need of milk, and not of solid food.

forbidding to marry, saying to abstain from foods which God has created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and know the truth.

And they told Saul, saying, Behold, the people sin against Jehovah in that they eat with the blood. And he said, You have transgressed. Roll a great stone to me today.

and for your cattle, and for the beast that is in your land, shall all the increase of it be for food.

These you shall eat of all that are in the waters: whatever has fins and scales in the waters, in the seas, and in the rivers, them you shall eat.

for the kingdom of God is not eating and drinking, but righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit.

You shall not eat anything with the blood. You shall not divine, nor conjure spirits.

Do not eat of it raw, nor boiled at all with water, but roasted with fire, its head with its legs, and with its inward parts.

a people who remain among the graves, and sleep in the tombs, who eat swine's flesh, and broth from hateful things in their vessels;

But Daniel laid on his heart that he would not defile himself with the king's food, nor with the wine which he drank. So he asked permission of the chief of the eunuchs that he might not defile himself.