'Eat' in the Bible

Therefore, I tell you, don't be anxious for your life: what you will eat, or what you will drink; nor yet for your body, what you will wear. Isn't life more than food, and the body more than clothing?

"Therefore don't be anxious, saying, 'What will we eat?', 'What will we drink?' or, 'With what will we be clothed?'

When the Pharisees saw it, they said to his disciples, "Why does your teacher eat with tax collectors and sinners?"

At that time, Jesus went on the Sabbath day through the grain fields. His disciples were hungry and began to pluck heads of grain and to eat.

how he entered into the house of God, and ate the show bread, which was not lawful for him to eat, neither for those who were with him, but only for the priests?

But Jesus said to them, "They don't need to go away. You give them something to eat."

"Why do your disciples disobey the tradition of the elders? For they don't wash their hands when they eat bread."

These are the things which defile the man; but to eat with unwashed hands doesn't defile the man."

But she said, "Yes, Lord, but even the dogs eat the crumbs which fall from their masters' table."

Jesus summoned his disciples and said, "I have compassion on the multitude, because they continue with me now three days and have nothing to eat. I don't want to send them away fasting, or they might faint on the way."

and begins to beat his fellow servants, and eat and drink with the drunkards,

for I was hungry, and you gave me food to eat. I was thirsty, and you gave me drink. I was a stranger, and you took me in.

for I was hungry, and you didn't give me food to eat; I was thirsty, and you gave me no drink;

Now on the first day of unleavened bread, the disciples came to Jesus, saying to him, "Where do you want us to prepare for you to eat the Passover?"

As they were eating, Jesus took bread, gave thanks for it, and broke it. He gave to the disciples, and said, "Take, eat; this is my body."

How he entered into the house of God when Abiathar was high priest, and ate the show bread, which is not lawful to eat except for the priests, and gave also to those who were with him?"

The multitude came together again, so that they could not so much as eat bread.

He strictly ordered them that no one should know this, and commanded that something should be given to her to eat.

He said to them, "You come apart into a deserted place, and rest awhile." For there were many coming and going, and they had no leisure so much as to eat.

Send them away, that they may go into the surrounding country and villages, and buy themselves bread, for they have nothing to eat."

But he answered them, "You give them something to eat." They asked him, "Shall we go and buy two hundred denarii worth of bread, and give them something to eat?"

(For the Pharisees, and all the Jews, don't eat unless they wash their hands and forearms, holding to the tradition of the elders.

They don't eat when they come from the marketplace, unless they bathe themselves, and there are many other things, which they have received to hold to: washings of cups, pitchers, bronze vessels, and couches.)

The Pharisees and the scribes asked him, "Why don't your disciples walk according to the tradition of the elders, but eat their bread with unwashed hands?"

But she answered him, "Yes, Lord. Yet even the dogs under the table eat the children's crumbs."

In those days, when there was a very great multitude, and they had nothing to eat, Jesus called his disciples to himself, and said to them,

"I have compassion on the multitude, because they have stayed with me now three days, and have nothing to eat.

Jesus told it, "May no one ever eat fruit from you again!" and his disciples heard it.

On the first day of unleavened bread, when they sacrificed the Passover, his disciples asked him, "Where do you want us to go and prepare that you may eat the Passover?"

and wherever he enters in, tell the master of the house, 'The Teacher says, "Where is the guest room, where I may eat the Passover with my disciples?"'

As they were eating, Jesus took bread, and when he had blessed, he broke it, and gave to them, and said, "Take, eat. This is my body."

Their scribes and the Pharisees murmured against his disciples, saying, "Why do you eat and drink with the tax collectors and sinners?"

They said to him, "Why do John's disciples often fast and pray, likewise also the disciples of the Pharisees, but yours eat and drink?"

how he entered into the house of God, and took and ate the show bread, and gave also to those who were with him, which is not lawful to eat except for the priests alone?"

One of the Pharisees invited him to eat with him. He entered into the Pharisee's house, and sat at the table.

Her spirit returned, and she rose up immediately. He commanded that something be given to her to eat.

But he said to them, "You give them something to eat." They said, "We have no more than five loaves and two fish, unless we should go and buy food for all these people."

Into whatever city you enter, and they receive you, eat the things that are set before you.

I will tell my soul, "Soul, you have many goods laid up for many years. Take your ease, eat, drink, be merry."'

He said to his disciples, "Therefore I tell you, don't be anxious for your life, what you will eat, nor yet for your body, what you will wear.

Don't seek what you will eat or what you will drink; neither be anxious.

But if that servant says in his heart, 'My lord delays his coming,' and begins to beat the menservants and the maidservants, and to eat and drink, and to be drunken,

It happened, when he went into the house of one of the rulers of the Pharisees on a Sabbath to eat bread, that they were watching him.

Bring the fattened calf, kill it, and let us eat, and celebrate;

and will not rather tell him, 'Prepare my supper, clothe yourself properly, and serve me, while I eat and drink. Afterward you shall eat and drink'?

He sent Peter and John, saying, "Go and prepare the Passover for us, that we may eat."

Tell the master of the house, 'The Teacher says to you, "Where is the guest room, where I may eat the Passover with my disciples?"'

He said to them, "I have earnestly desired to eat this Passover with you before I suffer,

for I tell you, I will no longer by any means eat of it until it is fulfilled in the Kingdom of God."

that you may eat and drink at my table in my Kingdom. You will sit on thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel."

While they still didn't believe for joy, and wondered, he said to them, "Do you have anything here to eat?"

His disciples remembered that it was written, "Zeal for your house will eat me up."

In the meanwhile, the disciples urged him, saying, "Rabbi, eat."

But he said to them, "I have food to eat that you don't know about."

The disciples therefore said one to another, "Has anyone brought him something to eat?"

Jesus therefore lifting up his eyes, and seeing that a great multitude was coming to him, said to Philip, "Where are we to buy bread, that these may eat?"

Our fathers ate the manna in the wilderness. As it is written, 'He gave them bread out of heaven to eat.'"

This is the bread which comes down out of heaven, that anyone may eat of it and not die.

The Jews therefore contended with one another, saying, "How can this man give us his flesh to eat?"

Jesus therefore said to them, "Most certainly I tell you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you don't have life in yourselves.

They led Jesus therefore from Caiaphas into the Praetorium. It was early, and they themselves didn't enter into the Praetorium, that they might not be defiled, but might eat the Passover.

Jesus therefore said to them, "Children, have you anything to eat?" They answered him, "No."

Jesus said to them, "Come and eat breakfast." None of the disciples dared inquire of him, "Who are you?" knowing that it was the Lord.

He became hungry and desired to eat, but while they were preparing, he fell into a trance.

A voice came to him, "Rise, Peter, kill and eat!"

I also heard a voice saying to me, 'Rise, Peter, kill and eat!'

When it was day, some of the Jews banded together, and bound themselves under a curse, saying that they would neither eat nor drink until they had killed Paul.

Therefore don't yield to them, for more than forty men lie in wait for him, who have bound themselves under a curse neither to eat nor to drink until they have killed him. Now they are ready, looking for the promise from you."

When he had said this, and had taken bread, he gave thanks to God in the presence of all, and he broke it, and began to eat.

One man has faith to eat all things, but he who is weak eats only vegetables.

Don't let him who eats despise him who doesn't eat. Don't let him who doesn't eat judge him who eats, for God has accepted him.

He who observes the day, observes it to the Lord; and he who does not observe the day, to the Lord he does not observe it. He who eats, eats to the Lord, for he gives God thanks. He who doesn't eat, to the Lord he doesn't eat, and gives God thanks.

It is good to not eat meat, drink wine, nor do anything by which your brother stumbles, is offended, or is made weak.

But as it is, I wrote to you not to associate with anyone who is called a brother who is a sexual sinner, or covetous, or an idolater, or a slanderer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner. Don't even eat with such a person.

However, that knowledge isn't in all men. But some, with consciousness of the idol until now, eat as of a thing sacrificed to an idol, and their conscience, being weak, is defiled.

But food will not commend us to God. For neither, if we don't eat, are we the worse; nor, if we eat, are we the better.

For if a man sees you who have knowledge sitting in an idol's temple, won't his conscience, if he is weak, be emboldened to eat things sacrificed to idols?

Therefore, if food causes my brother to stumble, I will eat no meat forevermore, that I don't cause my brother to stumble.

Have we no right to eat and to drink?

What soldier ever serves at his own expense? Who plants a vineyard, and doesn't eat of its fruit? Or who feeds a flock, and doesn't drink from the flock's milk?

Don't you know that those who serve around sacred things eat from the things of the temple, and those who wait on the altar have their portion with the altar?

Neither be idolaters, as some of them were. As it is written, "The people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to play."

Consider Israel according to the flesh. Don't those who eat the sacrifices participate in the altar?

Whatever is sold in the butcher shop, eat, asking no question for the sake of conscience,

But if one of those who don't believe invites you to a meal, and you are inclined to go, eat whatever is set before you, asking no questions for the sake of conscience.

But if anyone says to you, "This was offered to idols," don't eat it for the sake of the one who told you, and for the sake of conscience. For "the earth is the Lord's, and all its fullness."

Whether therefore you eat, or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.

When therefore you assemble yourselves together, it is not the Lord's supper that you eat.

What, don't you have houses to eat and to drink in? Or do you despise God's assembly, and put them to shame who don't have? What shall I tell you? Shall I praise you? In this I don't praise you.

When he had given thanks, he broke it, and said, "Take, eat. This is my body, which is broken for you. Do this in memory of me."

For as often as you eat this bread and drink this cup, you proclaim the Lord's death until he comes.

But let a man examine himself, and so let him eat of the bread, and drink of the cup.

Therefore, my brothers, when you come together to eat, wait for one another.

But if anyone is hungry, let him eat at home, lest your coming together be for judgment. The rest I will set in order whenever I come.

If I fought with animals at Ephesus for human purposes, what does it profit me? If the dead are not raised, then "let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die."

neither did we eat bread from anyone's hand without paying for it, but in labor and travail worked night and day, that we might not burden any of you;

For even when we were with you, we commanded you this: "If anyone will not work, neither let him eat."

Now those who are that way, we command and exhort in the Lord Jesus Christ, that with quietness they work, and eat their own bread.

We have an altar from which those who serve the holy tabernacle have no right to eat.

Your gold and your silver are corroded, and their corrosion will be for a testimony against you, and will eat your flesh like fire. You have laid up your treasure in the last days.