49 Bible Verses about Eating Meat

If food makes my brother stumble I will eat no food at all so I do not make my brother stumble.

It is good neither to eat food, nor to drink wine, nor any thing that causes your brother to stumble or be offended and weakened.

You will eat the bodies of your sons and daughters.

But food will not recommend us to God. If we do not eat we are not worse. If we eat we are not better.

Eat whatever is sold in the meat market without asking questions for the sake of conscience.

For one believes that he may eat all things. Another who is weak eats only vegetables.

Let the one eating not look down on the one not eating. Let the one who does not eat judge him that eats, for God has received him.

If you eat any of it on the third day, it is repulsive and will not be accepted.

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

Everything that lives and moves will be food for you. Just as I gave you the green plants, I now give you everything.

Do not tear down the work of God for the sake of food. All things indeed are pure; but it is evil for that man who eats with offense.

Test your servants, please, for ten days. Give them vegetables to eat and water to drink.

But if any man says to you: This is offered in sacrifice to idols, do not eat for the sake of the one who said it and for conscience sake.

You must not eat meat that has its lifeblood still in it.

He must not eat the meat of any animal that has died a natural death or has been killed by wild animals. It will make him unclean. I am Jehovah.

Let no man judge you in food or in drink or in respect of a feast day or a new moon or a Sabbath day.

People make themselves holy and prepare themselves for their garden rituals. They go into the garden and devour pork, disgusting things, and mice. They will come to an end at the same time, declares Jehovah.

Make sure you never eat blood, because blood contains life. Never eat the life with the meat.

Never eat the blood. Pour it on the ground like water.

If any man with knowledge sees you having a meal from an idol's temple, will the conscience of the weak one be emboldened (encouraged) to eat food offered to idols?

Never eat the meat of these animals or touch their dead bodies. They are unclean for you.

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

Do not eat any creature with many legs that goes on its belly or on the ground like a four-legged animal, or any creature that swarms on the ground. Consider them disgusting.

Where can I get meat for all these people? They continually cry for me to give them meat to eat.

Jehovah your God will expand your country's borders as he promised. You will say: I am hungry for meat. Then eat as much meat as you want.

Concerning the eating of food offered in sacrifice to idols, we know that an idol is nothing in the world, and that there is no other God but one.

He said: I have food to eat that you do not know about.

That night the animals are to be roasted and eaten, together with bitter herbs (greens) and unleavened bread made without yeast.

They looked better when the ten days ended! They were fairer in appearance and fatter in flesh than the young people who ate the king's special food.

In whatever city you live, you may slaughter and eat as much meat as you want from what Jehovah your God has blessed you with. Clean and unclean people may eat it as if they were eating a gazelle or a deer.

Tell them: 'The Lord Jehovah says: You eat meat with blood in it. You look to your idols for help. You murder people. Should the land be given to you?

But Peter said: No Lord for I have never eaten any thing that is defiled or unclean.

I ate no pleasant bread; neither flesh nor wine entered my mouth. I did not anoint myself at all until three whole weeks were completed.

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

He that doubts is damned if he eats, because he eats not by faith. Whatever is not by faith is sin!

Tell the people: 'Purify yourselves for tomorrow. You will have meat to eat! Jehovah has heard you whining and saying that you wished you had some meat and that you were better off in Egypt. Jehovah will now give you meat, and you will have to eat it.

Sacrifice the meat and the blood of your burnt offerings on the altar of Jehovah your God. The blood of your sacrifices is to be poured out beside the altar of Jehovah your God, but you may eat the meat.

We should write to them that they should abstain from things polluted by idols, from fornication, from things strangled and from blood.

David hid there in the field. It was the New Moon Festival. Saul sat down to eat.

At this time you should be teachers. But you need someone to teach you again from the beginning the elementary truths from the Word of God. You need milk, not solid food.

They will forbid marrying, [and command] to abstain from food, which God created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and know the truth.

Someone told Saul: The army is disobeying Jehovah by eating meat before the blood drains out. You are right, Saul answered. They are being unfaithful to Jehovah! Hurry! Roll a big rock over here.

your domestic animals, and the wild animals in your fields. Everything that it produces may be eaten.

Here are the kinds of creatures that live in the water that you may eat. You may eat anything in the seas and streams that have fins and scales.

For the kingdom of God is not food and drink; but righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit.

Do not eat any meat with blood still in it. Never cast evil spells, and never consult fortunetellers.

Do not eat the meat raw or boiled. The entire animal, including its head, legs, and insides, must be roasted.

They sit among the graves and spend their nights keeping secret vigil. They eat the flesh of pigs. Their pots are full of unclean meat.

Daniel determined in his heart that he would not defile himself with the king's special food and wine. He requested permission from the officer in charge that he might not defile himself.