21 Bible Verses about Eating

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1 Corinthians 11:20-22

"When, therefore, you come together in one place, it is not to eat the Lord's supper; for each one, in eating, takes before another, his own supper; and one is hungry, and another is drunken. What, have you not houses in which to eat and drink? or do you despise the church of God, and put those to shame who have nothing to eat? What shall I say to you? Shall I praise you in this? I praise you not.

2 Thessalonians 3:7-10

For you yourselves know how you ought to imitate us: for we did not behave in a disorderly manner among you, nor did we eat any one's bread for nothing: but worked with labor and toil, night and day, that we might not burden any one of you; this we did, not because we have not authority, but that we might give ourselves to you as an example, in order that you might imitate us.read more.
For when we were with you, we gave you this commandment, that if any one will not work, neither let him eat.

Colossians 2:16-17

Let no one judge you, therefore, in meat or in drink, or in respect to a feast, or the new moon, or sabbaths, which things are a shadow of things to come, but the substance is in Christ,

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Eating » Admonitions concerning eating

Luke 12:22

And he said to his disciples: For this reason I say to you, Be not anxious for your life, what you shall eat; nor for your body, what you shall put on.

1 Corinthians 10:25

Any thing that is sold in the market, eat, asking no questions on account of conscience:

Eating » Reclining on couches

Luke 7:37-38

And, behold, a woman of the city, who was a sinner, when she knew that he reclined at table in the house of the Pharisee, brought an alabaster box of ointment, and stood behind at his feet, weeping; and she began to wash his feet with her tears; and she wiped them with the hair of her head, and kissed his feet and anointed them with the ointment.

John 13:25

And he that was reclining on Jesus breast, said to him: Lord, who is it?

Eating » Favored guests served a double portion

Eating » The host acting as waiter

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Matthew 15:2

Why do your disciples transgress the tradition of the elders? for they do not wash their hands when they eat bread.

Eating » Sitting at table

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Revelation 19:17-18

And I saw an angel standing in the sun; and he cried with a loud voice, saying to all the birds that fly in mid-heaven. Come, gather yourselves to the great supper of God,

Eating Christ's Body

Mark 14:22

And while they were eating, Jesus took bread, and blessed, and broke it, and gave it to them, and said: Take, eat; this is my body.

Eating Corpses

Revelation 19:17-18

And I saw an angel standing in the sun; and he cried with a loud voice, saying to all the birds that fly in mid-heaven. Come, gather yourselves to the great supper of God,

Eating Disorders

1 Corinthians 6:19-20

Know you not that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit, which you have from God, and that you are not your own?

Jesus Eating

Luke 24:40-43

And when he had said this, he showed them his hands and his feet.

People Eating

John 4:31

In the mean time, the disciples besought him, saying: Rabbi, eat.

Pots For Cooking And Eating

Matthew 14:8

And being previously instigated by her mother, she said: Give me here in a dish the head of John the Immerser?

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