21 Bible Verses about Eating

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1 Corinthians 11:20-22

But this makes it impossible for you to eat the 'Lord's' supper when you hold your gatherings. As you eat, everyone takes his own supper; one goes hungry while another gets drunk. What! have you no houses to eat and drink in? Do you think you can show disrespect to the church of God and put the poor to shame? What can I say to you? Commend you? Not for this.

2 Thessalonians 3:7-10

For you know quite well how to copy us; we did not loaf in your midst, we did not take free meals from anyone; no, toiling hard at our trade, we worked night and day, so as not to be a burden to any of you. Not that we have no right to such support; it was simply to give you a pattern to copy.read more.
We used to charge you even when we were with you, 'If a man will not work, he shall not eat.'

Colossians 2:16-17

So let no one take you to task on questions of eating and drinking or in connexion with the observance of festivals or new moons or sabbaths. All that is the mere shadow of what is to be; the substance belongs to Christ.

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Eating » Admonitions concerning eating

Luke 12:22

To his disciples he said, "Therefore I tell you, do not trouble about what you are to eat in life, nor about what you are to put on your body;

1 Corinthians 10:25

Eat any food that has been sold in the market, instead of letting scruples of conscience oblige you to ask any questions about it;

Eating » Reclining on couches

Luke 7:37-38

Now there was a woman in the town who was a sinner, and when she found out that Jesus was at table in the house of the Pharisee, she brought an alabaster flask of perfume and stood behind him at his feet in tears; her tears began to wet his feet, so she wiped them with the hair of her head, pressed kisses on them, and anointed them with the perfume.

John 13:25

The disciple just leant back on the breast of Jesus and said, "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 transgress the tradition of the elders? They do not wash their hands when they take their food."

Eating » Sitting at table

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Revelation 19:17-18

Then I saw an angel standing in the sun, who shouted aloud to all the birds that fly in mid-heaven, "Come, gather for the great banquet of God,

Eating Christ's Body

Mark 14:22

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

Eating Corpses

Revelation 19:17-18

Then I saw an angel standing in the sun, who shouted aloud to all the birds that fly in mid-heaven, "Come, gather for the great banquet of God,

Eating Disorders

1 Corinthians 6:19-20

Do you not know your body is the temple of the holy Spirit within you ??the Spirit you have received from God? You are not your own,

Eating Meat

1 Corinthians 8:13

Therefore if food is any hindrance to my brother's welfare, sooner than injure him I will never eat flesh as long as I live, never!

Jesus Eating

Luke 24:40-43

[With these words he showed them his hands and feet.]

People Eating

John 4:31

Meanwhile the disciples pressed him, saying, "Rabbi, eat something."

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