21 Bible Verses about Eating
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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.
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!"
They are doomed to destruction: their appetites are their god; they glory in their shame; they are absorbed in earthly matters.
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
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.
So whether you are eating or drinking or doing anything else, do it all to the honor of God.
Eat anything for sale in the meat market without raising any question, as far as conscience is concerned,
Eating » Reclining on couches
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.
He leaned back from where he lay, on Jesus' breast, and said to him, "Master, who is it?"
Eating » Favored guests served a double portion
Eating » The host acting as waiter
Eating » Ablutions before
"Why do your disciples break the rules handed down by our ancestors? For they eat their bread without first washing their hands."
Eating » Sitting at table
Eating » Table used in
Plague » On the israelites » After » Eating » Quail
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Animals Eating
Matthew 13:4and as he was sowing, some of the seed fell by the path and the birds came and ate it up,
Animals Eating People
Revelation 19:17-18Then 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 13:4and 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 15:32From 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 Cattle
Luke 15:23and get the calf we are fattening, and kill it, and let us feast and celebrate,
Eating Christ's Body
Mark 14:22As 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 19:17-18Then 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 6:19-20Or 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;
Eating Drinking And Rejoicing
Luke 16:19"There was once a rich man, who used to dress in purple and fine linen, and to live in luxury every day.
Eating Meat
1 Corinthians 8:13Therefore, if what I eat makes my brother fall, I will never eat meat again, rather than make my brother fall.
Eating, Metaphorical Use
John 6:50But here is bread that comes down out of heaven, and no one who eats it will ever die.
Pots For Cooking And Eating
Matthew 14:8But she, at her mother's instigation, said, "Give me John the Baptist's head here on a platter!"
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