21 Bible Verses about Eating

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1 Corinthians 11:20-22

So when you hold your meetings it is not the Lord's Supper that you eat, for each of you hurries to get his own supper and eat it, and one goes hungry while another gets drunk. Have you no houses to eat and drink in? Or do you mean to show your contempt for the church of God, and to humiliate those who have none? What can I say to you? Can I approve of you? Not in this matter certainly.

2 Thessalonians 3:7-10

For you know yourselves what you must do to follow my example, for I was not idle when I was with you; I did not eat anybody's bread without paying for it, but with toil and labor I worked night and day, in order not to be a burden to any of you. Not that I had not a right to my support, but to give you in my own conduct an example to imitate.read more.
When I was with you, I gave you this rule: "If anyone refuses to work, give him nothing to eat!"

Colossians 2:16-17

So no one can call you to account for what you eat or drink, or do about annual or monthly feasts or Sabbaths. That was all only the shadow of something that was to follow; the reality is found in Christ.

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Eating » Admonitions concerning eating

Luke 12:22

And he said to his disciples, "Therefore, I tell you, do not worry about life, wondering what you will have to eat, or about your body, wondering what you will have to wear.

1 Corinthians 10:25

Eat anything for sale in the meat market without raising any question, as far as conscience is concerned,

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Luke 7:37-38

Now there was a woman in the town who was leading a sinful life, and when she learned that he was having dinner at the Pharisee's house, she got an alabaster flask of perfume, and came and stood behind him at his feet, weeping, and began to wet his feet with her tears, and she wiped them with her hair, and kissed them, and put the perfume on them.

John 13:25

He leaned back from where he lay, on Jesus' breast, and said to him, "Master, who is it?"

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Matthew 15:2

"Why do your disciples break the rules handed down by our ancestors? For they eat their bread without first washing their hands."

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Animals Eating

Matthew 13:4

and as he was sowing, some of the seed fell by the path and the birds came and ate it up,

Animals Eating People

Revelation 19:17-18

Then I saw an angel standing on the sun, and shouting in a loud voice to all the birds that fly in midair, "Come! Gather for God's great banquet,

Birds Eating

Matthew 13:4

and as he was sowing, some of the seed fell by the path and the birds came and ate it up,

Eating And Drinking

1 Corinthians 15:32

From the human point of view, what good is it to me that I have fought wild animals here in Ephesus? If the dead do not rise at all, "Let us eat and drink, for we will be dead tomorrow!"

Eating Christ's Body

Mark 14:22

As they were eating, he took a loaf and blessed it, and he broke it in pieces and gave it to them saying, "Take this. It is my body."

Eating Corpses

Revelation 19:17-18

Then I saw an angel standing on the sun, and shouting in a loud voice to all the birds that fly in midair, "Come! Gather for God's great banquet,

Eating Disorders

1 Corinthians 6:19-20

Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the holy Spirit that is within you, which you have received from God? Besides, you are not your own;

People Eating

John 4:31

Meanwhile the disciples urged him, saying, "Master, eat something."

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