21 Bible Verses about Eating

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1 Corinthians 11:20-22

So when you hold your meetings, it is not to eat the Lord's Supper, for each of you is in a rush to eat his own supper, and one goes hungry while another gets drunk. It is not that you have no houses to eat and drink in, is it? Or, are you trying to show your contempt for the church of God and trying to humiliate those who have no houses? What shall I say to you? Shall I praise you? No, I cannot praise you for this.

2 Thessalonians 3:7-10

You know yourselves how you ought to follow my example; for I was not a shirker when I was with you; I did not eat any man's bread without paying for it, but with toil and hard labor I worked night and day, in order not to be a burden to any of you. Not that I have no right to be supported, but to make myself an example for you to follow.read more.
For when I was with you, I gave you this direction, "If a person refuses to work, he must not be allowed to eat."

Colossians 2:16-17

Stop letting anyone pass judgment on you in matters of eating and drinking, or in the matter of annual or monthly feasts or sabbaths. These were but the shadow of what was coming; the reality belongs to Christ.

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Eating » Admonitions concerning eating

Luke 12:22

Then He said to His disciples: "Stop worrying, then, about life, as to what you will have to eat, or about your body, as to what you will have to wear.

1 Corinthians 10:25

As a rule eat anything that is sold in the meat market without raising any question about it for conscience' sake,

Eating » Reclining on couches

Luke 7:37-38

There was a woman in the town who was a social outcast, and when she learned that He was taking dinner at the Pharisee's house, she brought an alabaster bottle of perfume and took her stand behind Him at His feet, continually weeping. Then she began to wet His feet with her tears, but she continued to wipe them off with the hair of her head, and she kept right on kissing His feet with affection and anointing them with the perfume.

John 13:25

He leaned back on 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 break the rules handed down by our forefathers? For they do not practice washing their hands when they take their meals."

Eating » Sitting at table

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Animals Eating

Matthew 13:4

and as he was sowing, some of the seed fell along the path, and the birds came and ate them up,

Animals Eating People

Revelation 19:17-18

Then I saw an angel standing on the sun, and in a loud voice shouting to all the birds that fly in mid-air: "Come! Gather for God's great banquet,

Birds Eating

Matthew 13:4

and as he was sowing, some of the seed fell along the path, and the birds came and ate them up,

Eating And Drinking

1 Corinthians 15:32

If from merely human motives I have fought wild beasts here in Ephesus, what profit will it be to me? If the dead are never raised at all, "Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we shall be dead."

Eating Christ's Body

Mark 14:22

While they were eating, He took a loaf and blessed it and broke it in pieces and gave it to them, saying, "Take this; it is my body."

Eating Corpses

Revelation 19:17-18

Then I saw an angel standing on the sun, and in a loud voice shouting to all the birds that fly in mid-air: "Come! Gather for God's great banquet,

Eating Disorders

1 Corinthians 6:19-20

Or, are you not conscious that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit that is in you, whom you have as a gift from God? Furthermore, you are not your own,

Eating Meat

1 Corinthians 8:13

So then, if food can make my brother fall, I will never, no, never, eat meat again, in order to keep my brother from falling.

Eating, Metaphorical Use

John 6:50

But here is the bread that comes down out of heaven, so that anyone may eat it and never die.

Jesus Eating

Luke 24:40-43

[After He had said this He showed them His hands and His feet.]

People Eating

John 4:31

Meanwhile the disciples were asking Him, and saying, "Teacher, eat something."

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