19 Bible Verses about Eating Meat

Therefore, if what I eat makes my brother to stumble, I will never eat meat again, lest I make my brother to stumble.

The right course is not to eat meat, nor to drink wine, nor to do anything through which your brother is made to stumble.

Now food does not bring us nearness to God. Neither if we eat do we gain any advantage, nor if we eat not, do we lose any.

Eat anything that is for sale in the markets, asking no questions for conscience sake;

One man has faith to eat anything; but he whose faith is weak, eats only vegetables.

He who eats meat must not despise the man who abstains; and let not the man who abstains judge him who eats; for God has received him.

He who regards the day, regards it unto his Lord; and he who regards it not, disregards it unto his Lord. He who eats meat, eats unto his Lord, for he gives God thanks; and he who abstains, abstains unto his Lord, since he, too, gives God thanks.

Do not, for the sake of food, be tearing down God's work. All food indeed is ceremonially clean, but a man is in the wrong if his food proves a stumbling-block.

But if any one tells you, "This food has been offered in sacrifice," do not eat it, for the sake of him who told you,

Therefore do not permit any one to sit in judgment on you in regard to what you may eat or drink, or in regard to feast-days or new moons or sabbaths.

For if any one should see you, the possessor of "knowledge," reclining at table in an idol's temple, would not his conscience, if he were weak, be emboldened to eat things sacrificed to idols?

Now as to eating food that has been offered to idols, we know well that an idol has no real existence in the universe, and that there is no God but One.

"Rabbi," they said, "eat something." But he answered, "I have food to eat of which you know nothing."

"Not so, my Lord," answered Peter, "for I have never yet eaten anything common and unclean."

But he who has misgivings, and yet eats meat, is condemned already, because his action is not based on faith; and whatever is not based on faith is sin.

"but that we should write to them to abstain from the pollution of idols and from fornication, from meat killed by strangling, and from blood.

And this too, although you ought by this time to be teaching others, you are still needing some one to teach you the very rudiments of divine revelation. You need milk, not solid food.

who discourage marriage, and enjoin abstinence from foods which God created to be received with thankfulness, by those who believe, and have a clear knowledge of the truth.

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