19 Bible Verses about Eating Meat
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So then, if food can make my brother fall, I will never, no, never, eat meat again, in order to keep my brother from falling.
The right thing to do is not to eat meat, or drink wine, or do anything else, that makes your brother stumble.
Food will never bring us near to God. We are no worse if we do not eat it; we are no better if we do.
As a rule eat anything that is sold in the meat market without raising any question about it for conscience' sake,
One man believes that he can eat anything; another who is overscrupulous eats nothing but vegetables.
The man who eats anything must not look down on the man who does not do so, nor must the man who does not do so condemn the man who does, for God has fully accepted him.
The man who keeps a certain day keeps it for the Lord. The man who eats anything does it for the Lord too, for he gives God thanks. The man who refuses to eat anything does it for the Lord too, and gives God thanks.
Stop undoing the work of God just for the sake of food. Everything is clean, but it is wrong for a man to eat anything when it makes another stumble.
But if someone says to you, "This meat has been offered as a heathen sacrifice," make it your rule not to eat it, for the sake of the man who warned you and for conscience' sake;
Stop letting anyone pass judgment on you in matters of eating and drinking, or in the matter of annual or monthly feasts or sabbaths.
For if somebody sees you, who have an intelligent view of this matter, partaking of a meal in an idol's temple, will he not be emboldened, with his overscrupulous conscience, to eat the food which has been sacrificed to an idol?
So, as to eating things that have been sacrificed to idols, we are sure that an idol is nothing in the world, and that there is no God but One.
But Peter said, "Never by any means, sir, for I have never eaten anything common, or not ceremonially cleansed."
But the man who has misgivings about eating, if he then eats, has already condemned himself by so doing, because he did not follow his faith, and any action that does not follow one's faith is a sin.
but we should write them to abstain from everything that is contaminated by idols, from sexual immorality, from the meat of strangled animals, and from tasting blood.
For although you ought to be teachers of others because you have been Christians so long, you actually need someone to teach you over and over again the very elements of the truths that God has given us, and you have gotten into such a state that you are in constant need of milk instead of solid food.
who forbid people to marry and teach them to abstain from certain sorts of food which God created for the grateful enjoyment of those who have faith and a clear knowledge of the truth.
For the kingdom of God does not consist in what we eat and drink, but in doing right, in peace and joy through the Holy Spirit;