21 Bible Verses about Eating

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1 Corinthians 11:20-22

When ye come together then in the same place, there is no eating of the Lords supper. For, when ye eat, every one taketh before any distribution his own supper, and one is hungry, and another is drunken. What! have ye not houses to eat and to drink in? Or despise ye the church of God, and shame those who have nothing? What am I to say to you? Shall I praise you? In this I do not praise you.

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 any mans bread for nought, but were working with labor and travail night and day, that we might not be burdensome to any of you. Not because we have not authority, but to make ourselves an example to you, that ye should imitate us.read more.
For also when we were with you, this we commanded you: If any one will not work, neither let him eat.

Colossians 2:16-17

Let no one then call you to account about food or drink, or a feastday, or a new moon, or sabbaths; which are a shadow of the things to come, but the body is Christs.

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Luke 12:22

And he said to his disciples, Therefore I say to you, Be not anxious for the life, what ye shall eat; nor for the body, what ye shall put on.

1 Corinthians 10:25

Whatever is sold in the market that eat, without asking questions for the sake of conscience;

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Luke 7:37-38

And lo! a woman who was in the city, a sinner, learning that he was at table in the Pharisees house, brought an alabasterbottle of ointment, and standing behind at his feet, weeping, began to wet his feet with tears, and wiped them with the hair of her head, and kissed his feet, and anointed them with the ointment.

John 13:25

He, therefore, leaning back on the breast of Jesus, saith to him, Lord, who is it?

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Matthew 15:2

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

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Animals Eating

Matthew 13:4

And as he sowed, some seeds fell by the wayside; and the birds came and devoured them.

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 birds that fly in midheaven, Come, gather yourselves together to the great supper of God;

Birds Eating

Matthew 13:4

And as he sowed, some seeds fell by the wayside; and the birds came and devoured them.

Eating Christ's Body

Mark 14:22

And as they were eating, he took a loaf, and blessed, and broke it, and gave it to them, and said, Take; 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 birds that fly in midheaven, Come, gather yourselves together to the great supper of God;

Eating Disorders

1 Corinthians 6:19-20

Know ye not, that your bodies are temples of the Holy Spirit which is in you, which ye have from God, and that ye are not your own?

Eating Meat

1 Corinthians 8:13

Wherefore, if food cause my brother to fall, I will eat no flesh for ever, lest I cause my brother to fall. Am I not free?

People Eating

John 4:31

In the mean while the disciples asked him, saying, Rabbi, eat.

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