21 Bible Verses about Eating

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1 Corinthians 11:20-22

When you come together therefore, it is not to eat the Lord's supper, for each one in eating takes his supper before the rest, and one is hungry and another drunk. Have you not [food] to eat and drink at your houses? or do you despise the church of God, and shame those who have not [houses]? What shall I say to you? Shall I commend you? In this I commend you not.

2 Thessalonians 3:7-10

For you know yourselves how you ought to follow us, for we walked not disorderly among you, neither did we eat bread of any one for nought, but worked with labor and fatigue, night and day, not to be burdensome to any of you; not that we have not a right [to a support], but that we may make ourselves an example for you to follow us.read more.
For when we were with you, we gave you this charge, that if any one will not work, neither let him eat.

Colossians 2:16-17

Let no man therefore judge you in eating and in drinking, or in respect to a feast, or new moon, or sabbath, which are a shadow of things that were to come; but the body is Christ's.

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Eating » Admonitions concerning eating

Luke 12:22

And he said to his disciples, I tell you, therefore, be not anxious for your soul what you shall eat, nor for the body what you shall put on.

1 Corinthians 10:25

Whatever is sold in the market eat, asking no questions for conscience' sake;

Eating » Reclining on couches

Luke 7:37-38

And behold, a certain woman in the city, a sinner, knowing that he was reclining in the house of the Pharisee, brought a vase of ointment, and standing behind, by his feet, weeping, washed his feet with tears, and wiped them with the hairs of her head; and she kissed his feet, and anointed them with the ointment.

John 13:25

He, falling down on the breast of Jesus, 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 transgress the tradition of the elders, for they wash not their hands when they eat bread?

Eating » Sitting at table

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Animals Eating People

Revelation 19:17-18

And I saw an angel standing on the sun, and he cried with a loud voice, saying to all the birds that fly in mid-heaven, Come, assemble yourselves to the great supper of God,

Eating Corpses

Revelation 19:17-18

And I saw an angel standing on the sun, and he cried with a loud voice, saying to all the birds that fly in mid-heaven, Come, assemble yourselves to the great supper of God,

Eating Disorders

1 Corinthians 6:19-20

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

Jesus Eating

Luke 24:40-43

(Added verse not retained in Sawyer)

People Eating

John 4:31

In the meantime the disciples asked him saying, Rabbi, eat.

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