18 Bible Verses about Eating Meat
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Therefore if food is any hindrance to my brother's welfare, sooner than injure him I will never eat flesh as long as I live, never!
the right course is to abstain from flesh or wine or indeed anything that your brother feels to be a stumbling-block.
Now mere food will not bring us any nearer to God; if we abstain we do not lose anything, and if we eat we do not gain anything.
Eat any food that has been sold in the market, instead of letting scruples of conscience oblige you to ask any questions about it;
While one man has enough confidence to eat any food, the man of weak faith only eats vegetables.
The eater must not look down upon the non-eater, and the non-eater must not criticize the eater, for God has welcomed him.
the man who values a particular day does so to the Lord. The eater eats to the Lord, since he thanks God for his food; the non-eater abstains to the Lord, and he too thanks God.
You must not break down God's work for the mere sake of food! Everything may be clean, but it is wrong for a man to prove a stumbling-block by what he eats;
But if someone tells you, 'This was sacrificial meat,' then do not eat it; you must consider the man who told you, and also take conscience into account ??29 his conscience, I mean, not your own; for why should one's own freedom be called in question by someone else's conscience?
So let no one take you to task on questions of eating and drinking or in connexion with the observance of festivals or new moons or sabbaths.
Suppose anyone sees you, a person of enlightened mind, reclining at meat inside an idol's temple; will that really 'fortify his weak conscience'? Will it not embolden him to violate his scruples of conscience by eating food that has been offered to idols?
Well then, with regard to food that has been offered to idols, I am quite aware that 'there is no such thing as an idol in the world' and that 'there is only the one God.'
But if anyone has doubts about eating and then eats, that condemns him at once; it was not faith that induced him to eat, and any action that is not based on faith is a sin.
but write them injunctions to abstain from whatever is contaminated by idols, from sexual vice, from the flesh of animals that have been strangled, and from tasting blood;
Though by this time you should be teaching other people, you still need someone to teach you once more the rudimentary principles of the divine revelation. You are in need of milk, not of solid food.
The Reign of God is not a matter of eating and drinking, it means righteousness, peace, and joy in the holy Spirit;