21 Bible Verses about Eating

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1 Corinthians 11:20-22

Again, when you meet together, there is no true eating of the Lord's Supper; for each one of you begins to eat his own supper; one goes hungry, while another gets drunk. What! Have you no houses in which to eat or drink? or do you wish to show your contempt for the church of God, and to shame those who have no homes to eat in? What shall I say to you? Shall I praise you? In this I certainly do not praise you.

2 Thessalonians 3:7-10

For you know well how you must imitate me. For I did not lead an idle or disorderly life among you; I did not eat my food as a gift from any man, but in toil and travail, night and day, I worked, so that I might not be a burden to any of you. Not that I have no right to such support; it was simply to give you an example for you to imitate.read more.
For indeed when I was with you, I used to charge you, "If any man will not work, he shall not eat."

Colossians 2:16-17

Therefore do not permit any one to sit in judgment on you in regard to what you may eat or drink, or in regard to feast-days or new moons or sabbaths. These were a shadow of things to come, but the substance belongs to Christ.

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Eating » Admonitions concerning eating

Luke 12:22

Then he said to his disciples. "For this is the reason I say to you. Be not anxious for your life, what you shall eat; nor yet your body what shall you wear.

1 Corinthians 10:25

Eat anything that is for sale in the markets, asking no questions for conscience sake;

Eating » Reclining on couches

Luke 7:37-38

Now there was a woman who was in the city, a sinner and when she knew that that Jesus was reclining at meat in the Pharisees house, she brought an alabaster vase of perfume, and standing behind, at his feet, weeping, she began to wet his feet with her tears, and to wipe them with her hair, while she tenderly kissed his feet, and poured the perfume over them.

John 13:25

So that disciples just leaned back against Jesus' breast and 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 keep transgressing the tradition of the elders by not washing their hands before eating?"

Eating » Sitting at table

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Animals Eating People

Revelation 19:17-18

And I saw an angel standing in the sun, who shouted in a loud voice to all the birds that fly in mid-heaven, "Come, gather yourselves together to the great supper of God,

Eating And Drinking

1 Corinthians 15:32

If after the manner of men I have fought with wild beasts at Ephesus, what good does it do me? If the dead do not rise, Let us eat and drink, For we shall be dead tomorrow.

Eating Christ's Body

Mark 14:22

And as they were eating he took bread, and after the blessing, broke it, and gave it to them, saying, "Take it, this is my body."

Eating Corpses

Revelation 19:17-18

And I saw an angel standing in the sun, who shouted in a loud voice to all the birds that fly in mid-heaven, "Come, gather yourselves together to the great supper of God,

Eating Disorders

1 Corinthians 6:19-20

Do you not know that your body is a sanctuary of the Holy Spirit who is within you, the Spirit whom you have from God?

Eating Meat

1 Corinthians 8:13

Therefore, if what I eat makes my brother to stumble, I will never eat meat again, lest I make my brother to stumble.

Jesus Eating

Luke 24:40-43

Then he showed them his hands and feet.

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