30 Bible Verses about Eating

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Deuteronomy 8:16

He giving thee to eat manna in the desert which thy fathers knew not, in order to humble thee, and in order to try thee to do thee good in thy lost state:

Genesis 2:16-17

And Jehovah God will appoint to the man, saying, From every tree of the garden eating, thou shalt eat. But from the tree to know good and evil thou shalt not eat from it, for in the day of thy eating from it, dying, thou shalt die.

1 Corinthians 11:20-22

Therefore ye coming together upon the same, it is not to eat the Lord's supper. For each takes his own supper in eating: and one is truly hungry, and one is intoxicated. For, have ye not houses for eating and drinking? or despise ye the church of God, and shame them not having? What should I say to you? shall I praise you in this? I praise not.

2 Thessalonians 3:7-10

For ye yourselves know that ye ought to imitate us: for we were not disorderly among you; Neither ate we the bread of any as a gift; but in fatigue and toil working night and day also, not to overload any of you: Not that we have not power, but that we give ourselves a type to you to imitate us.read more.
For also when we were with you, this we proclaimed to you, that if any will not work, neither should he eat.

Nehemiah 5:1-2

And a cry of the people and their wives will be great against their brethren the Jews. And there is which saying, Our sons and our daughters, we being many: and we will take grain and we will eat and live.

Deuteronomy 4:28

And ye served there gods, the work of men's hands, wood and stone, which shall not see, and shall not hear, and shall not eat, and shall not breathe.

Psalm 22:26

The humble shall eat and be satisfied: they shall praise Jehovah they seeking him: your heart shall live forever.

Proverbs 13:25

The just one ate to fill his soul: and the belly of the unjust shall want

Joel 2:26

And eating, ye ate and were satisfied, and ye praised the name of Jehovah your God who did wonderfully with you: and my people shall not be ashamed forever.

Colossians 2:16-17

Therefore let not any judge you in food, or in drink, or in turn of festival, or of the new moon, or of sabbaths: Which are a shadow of things about to be; and the body of Christ.

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Eating » Admonitions concerning eating

Proverbs 23:1-2

If thou shalt sit to eat with a ruler, understanding, thou shalt understand what is before thee. And put a knife to thy swallow if thou the possessor of a soul.

1 Corinthians 10:25

Every thing being sold in the market, eat, ye, interrogating nothing through consciousness:

Psalm 141:4

Thou wilt not incline my heart to an evil word, to work works in injustice with men doing iniquity: and I will not eat upon their dainties.

Eating » Reclining on couches

Amos 6:4

Lying upon beds of ivory, and stretching out upon their couches, and eating the lambs from the flock, and the calves from the midst of the stall.

Luke 7:37-38

And, behold, a woman in the city, who was sinful, knowing that he is reclining at table in the Pharisee's house, having brought an alabaster box of perfumed oil, And stood at his feet behind, weeping, been to wet his feet with tears, and wiped with the hairs of her head; and she kissed his feet, and anointed with the perfumed oil.

Amos 6:7

For this now shall they be carried away captive with the head of those carried away captive, and the shouting a those poured forth was removed.

John 13:25

And he reclining upon Jesus' breast says to him, Lord, who is it?

Eating » Favored guests served a double portion

Genesis 43:34

And he will take gifts from before him to them: and Benjamin's gift will increase above all their gifts, five parts. And they will drink and be intoxicated with him.

Eating » The host acting as waiter

Genesis 18:8

And he will take curdled milk, and new milk, and the son of the cow which he did, and he will give before their face; and he stood by them under the tree, and they shall eat

Eating » Ablutions before

Matthew 15:2

Wherefore do thy disciples pass by the tradition of the elders? for they wash not their hands when they eat bread.

Eating » Sitting at table

Exodus 32:6

And they will rise early early on the morrow, and they will raise up a burnt-offering, and they will bring near peace; and the people will sit down to eat and drink, and they will rise up to play.

Eating » Table used in

Judges 1:7

And lord Bezek will say, Seventy kings with the thumbs of their hands and their feet being cut off, were gathering under my table; as I did so God requited me. And they will bring him to Jerusalem, and he will die there.

Plague » On the israelites » After » Eating » Quail

Numbers 11:33

And the flesh yet between their teeth, before it shall be withdrawn and the anger of Jehovah was kindled against the people, and Jehovah will smite upon them an exceeding great blow.

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Animals Eating

Exodus 22:5

If a man shall feed a field or vineyard, and send forth the cattle and feed in another field: from the good of his field and from the good of his vineyard shall he recompense.

Animals Eating People

Genesis 37:20

And now, come, and we will kill him, and throw him into one of the pits; and we will say, An evil beast devoured him: and we shall see what will be his dreams.

Birds Eating

Genesis 40:19

Yet in three days, Pharaoh will lift up thy head above thee, and hang thee upon a tree, and the birds shall eat thy flesh from thee.

Eating Before God

Exodus 12:4

And if the house shall be little from being for a sheep, and he taking, and his neighbor drawing nigh his house according to the number of souls; each according to the mouth of his eating shall ye reckon for the sheep.

Eating Cattle

1 Kings 4:23

Ten fatted oxen, and twenty oxen of the shepherd, and a hundred sheep, besides from the stag and the roe and the fallow deer, and fowls fattened.

Eating Christ's Body

Mark 14:22

And they eating, Jesus having taken bread, having praised, brake, and gave them, and said, Take, eat: this is my body.

Eating Corpses

Genesis 40:19

Yet in three days, Pharaoh will lift up thy head above thee, and hang thee upon a tree, and the birds shall eat thy flesh from thee.

Eating Disorders

1 Corinthians 6:19-20

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

Eating Drinking And Rejoicing

Deuteronomy 12:7

And eat there before Jehovah your God, and rejoice in all the stretching forth of your hand, ye and your houses in which Jehovah thy God blessed thee.

Eating, Metaphorical Use

John 6:50

This is the bread which coming down from heaven, that whoever should eat of it, and he should not die.

Jesus Eating

Luke 24:40-43

And having said this, he showed them hands and feet.

People Eating

John 4:31

And in the mean time the disciples asked him, saying, Rabbi, eat.

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