21 Bible Verses about Eating

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1 Corinthians 11:20-22

When, therefore, ye assemble yourselves together, it is not to eat a Supper of the Lord; for, in your eating, each one takes his own supper before others; and one is hungry, and another is drunken! What! have ye not houses to eat and to drink in? Or despise ye the assembly of God, and put to shame those who have them not? What shall I say to you? Shall I praise you? In this I praise you not.

2 Thessalonians 3:7-10

For ye yourselves know that ye should imitate us; because we were not disorderly among you; nor did we eat any one's bread, gratuitously: but, in labor and toil, working night and day, that we might not be burdensome to any of you; not because we have not authority, but that we might give ourselves as a model to you, that ye might imitate us.read more.
For, even when we were with you, this we commanded you, "If anyone is not willing to work, neither let him eat."

Colossians 2:16-17

Let no one, therefore, judge you in food, or in drink, or in respect of a feast, or a new moon, or sabbaths, which are a shadow of things 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, "Therefore, I say to you, be not anxious for your soul, what ye shall eat; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on;

1 Corinthians 10:25

Whatsoever is sold in the market eat, asking no question because of conscience;

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Luke 7:37-38

And, behold, a woman who was in the city, a sinner; and, learning that He was reclining at table in the house of the Pharisee, having provided an alabaster cruse of perfume; and standing behind at His feet weeping, she began to wet His feet with her tears, and wiped them off with the hair of her head; and she kept kissing His feet, and anointing them with the perfume.

John 13:25

He, leaning back as he was on the breast of Jesus, says 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 do not wash their hands, when they eat bread!"

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Animals Eating

Matthew 13:4

And, in his sowing, some seeds fell by the wayside, and the birds, coming, devoured them.

Animals Eating People

Revelation 19:17-18

And I saw one angel standing in the sun; and he cried with a great voice saying to all the birds that fly in mid-heaven, "Come, gather yourselves together to the great supper of God;

Birds Eating

Matthew 13:4

And, in his sowing, some seeds fell by the wayside, and the birds, coming, devoured them.

Eating Christ's Body

Mark 14:22

And, as they were eating, having taken bread and blessed it, He broke, and gave to them, and said, "Take ye; this is My body."

Eating Corpses

Revelation 19:17-18

And I saw one angel standing in the sun; and he cried with a great voice saying 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

Or know ye not that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit, Who is in you, Whom ye have from God, and that ye are not your own?

Eating Meat

1 Corinthians 8:13

Wherefore, if food causes my brother to stumble, I will in no wise eat flesh forevermore; that I cause not my brother to stumble.

Jesus Eating

Luke 24:40-43

And, saying this, He showed them His hands and His feet.

People Eating

John 4:31

In the meantime the disciples were entreating Him, saying, "Rabbi, eat."

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