21 Bible Verses about Eating

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1 Corinthians 11:20-22

When therefore ye assemble in the same place, it is not to eat the Lord's supper. For one in the eating it taketh before another his own supper: and one is hungry, and another drinks to excess. What! have ye not houses to eat in and to drink? or despise ye the church of God, and make those ashamed who have none? What shall I say unto you? shall I praise you in this? I praise you not.

2 Thessalonians 3:7-10

For ye yourselves know how ye ought to imitate us; for we behaved not ourselves disorderly among you, neither did we eat bread with any man unpaid for, but with labour and toil worked night and day, that we might be burdensome to none of you: not that we have not such power, but that we might be ourselves an example for you to imitate.read more.
For when we were with you, this we enjoined you, that if a man would not work, neither should he eat.

Colossians 2:16-17

Let no man therefore judge you concerning what you eat, or what you drink, or the observance of a feast, or new moon, or the sabbaths; which are [merely] shadows of things to come: but the body is Christ's.

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Eating » Admonitions concerning eating

Luke 12:22

Then said he to his disciples, For this reason I tell you, Be under no anxiety about your life, what ye shall eat, nor for your body, how ye shall be clothed.

1 Corinthians 10:25

Every thing which is sold in the shambles eat, asking no question for conscience sake;

Eating » Reclining on couches

Luke 7:37-38

And, behold, a certain woman in the city, who was a notorious offender, when she knew that Jesus was sitting at table in the Pharisee's house, brought an alabaster vessel of odoriferous balm, and standing at his feet behind him, began to water his feet with her tears, and to wipe them with the hair of her head, and kissed his feet, and anointed them with the perfumed balm.

John 13:25

And he leaning on the breast of Jesus, said to him, Lord, which is it?

Eating » Favored guests served a double portion

Eating » The host acting as waiter

Eating » Ablutions before

Matthew 15:2

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

Eating » Sitting at table

Eating » Table used in

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Animals Eating

Matthew 13:4

and as he was sowing, some seeds fell indeed by the road-side; and the birds came and ate them up:

Animals Eating People

Revelation 19:17-18

And I saw an angel standing in the sun; and he cried with a loud voice, saying to all the fowls which fly in the midst of heaven, Come hither and flock together unto the supper of the great God:

Birds Eating

Matthew 13:4

and as he was sowing, some seeds fell indeed by the road-side; and the birds came and ate them up:

Eating And Drinking

1 Corinthians 15:32

If after the manner of men I have fought with wild beasts at Ephesus, of what advantage would it be to me, if the dead did not rise again? shall we eat and drink; because to-morrow we die?

Eating Christ's Body

Mark 14:22

And as they were eating, Jesus taking a loaf, when he had blessed, brake it, and gave 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 fowls which fly in the midst of heaven, Come hither and flock together unto the supper of the great God:

Eating Disorders

1 Corinthians 6:19-20

Do ye not know that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost, which is in you, which ye have from God, and ye are not your own?

Eating Meat

1 Corinthians 8:13

Wherefore if meat give occasion of offence to my brother, I will in no wise eat meat for ever, that I give no cause of offence to my brother.

Eating, Metaphorical Use

John 6:50

This is the bread which cometh down from heaven, that any person may eat of it, and never die.

Jesus Eating

Luke 24:40-43

And thus speaking, he exposed to them his hands and his feet.

People Eating

John 4:31

In the mean time his disciples invited him, saying, Rabbi, eat.

Pots For Cooking And Eating

Matthew 14:8

And she, being previously urged on by her mother, said, Give me here, in a spacious dish, the head of John the Baptist.

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