49 Bible Verses about Eating Meat

For this reason, if food causes my brother or sister to sin, I will never eat meat again, so that I may not cause one of them to sin.

It is good not to eat meat or drink wine or to do anything that causes your brother to stumble.

You will eat the flesh of your sons and the flesh of your daughters.

Now food will not bring us close to God. We are no worse if we do not eat and no better if we do.

Eat anything that is sold in the marketplace without questions of conscience,

One person believes in eating everything, but the weak person eats only vegetables.

The one who eats everything must not despise the one who does not, and the one who abstains must not judge the one who eats everything, for God has accepted him.

If, however, it is eaten on the third day, it is spoiled, it will not be accepted,

The one who observes the day does it for the Lord. The one who eats, eats for the Lord because he gives thanks to God, and the one who abstains from eating abstains for the Lord, and he gives thanks to God.

You may eat any moving thing that lives. As I gave you the green plants, I now give you everything.

Do not destroy the work of God for the sake of food. For although all things are clean, it is wrong to cause anyone to stumble by what you eat.

"Please test your servants for ten days by providing us with some vegetables to eat and water to drink.

But if someone says to you, "This is from a sacrifice," do not eat, because of the one who told you and because of conscience --

But you must not eat meat with its life (that is, its blood) in it.

He must not eat an animal that has died of natural causes or an animal torn by beasts and thus become unclean by it. I am the Lord.

Therefore do not let anyone judge you with respect to food or drink, or in the matter of a feast, new moon, or Sabbath days --

"As for those who consecrate and ritually purify themselves so they can follow their leader and worship in the sacred orchards, those who eat the flesh of pigs and other disgusting creatures, like mice -- they will all be destroyed together," says the Lord.

However, by no means eat the blood, for the blood is life itself -- you must not eat the life with the meat!

However, you must not eat blood -- pour it out on the ground like water.

For if someone weak sees you who possess knowledge dining in an idol's temple, will not his conscience be "strengthened" to eat food offered to idols?

You must not eat from their meat and you must not touch their carcasses; they are unclean to you.

The Lord said to the people of Judah, "The Lord God of Israel who rules over all says: 'You might as well go ahead and add the meat of your burnt offerings to that of the other sacrifices and eat it, too!

You must not eat anything that crawls on its belly or anything that walks on all fours or on any number of legs of all the swarming things that swarm on the land, because they are detestable.

From where shall I get meat to give to this entire people, for they cry to me, 'Give us meat, that we may eat!'

When the Lord your God extends your borders as he said he would do and you say, "I want to eat meat just as I please," you may do so as you wish.

With regard then to eating food sacrificed to idols, we know that "an idol in this world is nothing," and that "there is no God but one."

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

They will eat the meat the same night; they will eat it roasted over the fire with bread made without yeast and with bitter herbs.

At the end of the ten days their appearance was better and their bodies were healthier than all the young men who had been eating the royal delicacies.

On the other hand, you may slaughter and eat meat as you please when the Lord your God blesses you in all your villages. Both the ritually pure and impure may eat it, whether it is a gazelle or an ibex.

Therefore say to them, 'This is what the sovereign Lord says: You eat the meat with the blood still in it, pray to your idols, and shed blood. Do you really think you will possess the land?

But Peter said, "Certainly not, Lord, for I have never eaten anything defiled and ritually unclean!"

I ate no choice food; no meat or wine came to my lips, nor did I anoint myself with oil until the end of those three weeks.

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

But the man who doubts is condemned if he eats, because he does not do so from faith, and whatever is not from faith is sin.

"And say to the people, 'Sanctify yourselves for tomorrow, and you will eat meat, for you have wept in the hearing of the Lord, saying, "Who will give us meat to eat, for life was good for us in Egypt?" Therefore the Lord will give you meat, and you will eat.

You must offer your burnt offerings, both meat and blood, on the altar of the Lord your God; the blood of your other sacrifices you must pour out on his altar while you eat the meat.

but that we should write them a letter telling them to abstain from things defiled by idols and from sexual immorality and from what has been strangled and from blood.

So David hid in the field. When the new moon came, the king sat down to eat his meal.

For though you should in fact be teachers by this time, you need someone to teach you the beginning elements of God's utterances. You have gone back to needing milk, not solid food.

They will prohibit marriage and require abstinence from foods that God created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and know the truth.

Now it was reported to Saul, "Look, the army is sinning against the Lord by eating even the blood." He said, "All of you have broken the covenant! Roll a large stone over here to me."

your cattle, and the wild animals that are in your land -- all its produce will be for you to eat.

"'These you can eat from all creatures that are in the water: Any creatures in the water that have both fins and scales, whether in the seas or in the streams, you may eat.

For the kingdom of God does not consist of food and drink, but righteousness, peace, and joy in the Holy Spirit.

"'You must not eat anything with the blood still in it. You must not practice either divination or soothsaying.

Do not eat it raw or boiled in water, but roast it over the fire with its head, its legs, and its entrails.

They sit among the tombs and keep watch all night long. They eat pork, and broth from unclean sacrificial meat is in their pans.

But Daniel made up his mind that he would not defile himself with the royal delicacies or the royal wine. He therefore asked the overseer of the court officials for permission not to defile himself.