'Food' in the Bible

Now John himself had a garment of camel’s hair and a leather belt around his waist; and his food was locusts and wild honey.

“For this reason I say to you, do not be worried about your life, as to what you will eat or what you will drink; nor for your body, as to what you will put on. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothing?

When it was evening, the disciples came to Him and said, “This place is desolate and the hour is already late; so send the crowds away, that they may go into the villages and buy food for themselves.”

Ordering the people to sit down on the grass, He took the five loaves and the two fish, and looking up toward heaven, He blessed the food, and breaking the loaves He gave them to the disciples, and the disciples gave them to the crowds,

“Who then is the faithful and sensible slave whom his master put in charge of his household to give them their food at the proper time?

And He took the five loaves and the two fish, and looking up toward heaven, He blessed the food and broke the loaves and He kept giving them to the disciples to set before them; and He divided up the two fish among them all.

And he would answer and say to them, “The man who has two tunics is to share with him who has none; and he who has food is to do likewise.”

But He said to them, “You give them something to eat!” And they said, “We have no more than five loaves and two fish, unless perhaps we go and buy food for all these people.”

For life is more than food, and the body more than clothing.

For His disciples had gone away into the city to buy food.

But He said to them, “I have food to eat that you do not know about.”

Jesus *said to them, “My food is to do the will of Him who sent Me and to accomplish His work.

Do not work for the food which perishes, but for the food which endures to eternal life, which the Son of Man will give to you, for on Him the Father, God, has set His seal.”

For My flesh is true food, and My blood is true drink.

Now at this time while the disciples were increasing in number, a complaint arose on the part of the Hellenistic Jews against the native Hebrews, because their widows were being overlooked in the daily serving of food.

“Now a famine came over all Egypt and Canaan, and great affliction with it, and our fathers could find no food.

and he took food and was strengthened.Now for several days he was with the disciples who were at Damascus,

and yet He did not leave Himself without witness, in that He did good and gave you rains from heaven and fruitful seasons, satisfying your hearts with food and gladness.”

And he brought them into his house and set food before them, and rejoiced greatly, having believed in God with his whole household.

When they had gone a long time without food, then Paul stood up in their midst and said, “Men, you ought to have followed my advice and not to have set sail from Crete and incurred this damage and loss.

Until the day was about to dawn, Paul was encouraging them all to take some food, saying, “Today is the fourteenth day that you have been constantly watching and going without eating, having taken nothing.

Therefore I encourage you to take some food, for this is for your preservation, for not a hair from the head of any of you will perish.”

All of them were encouraged and they themselves also took food.

For if because of food your brother is hurt, you are no longer walking according to love. Do not destroy with your food him for whom Christ died.

Do not tear down the work of God for the sake of food. All things indeed are clean, but they are evil for the man who eats and gives offense.

I gave you milk to drink, not solid food; for you were not yet able to receive it. Indeed, even now you are not yet able,

Food is for the stomach and the stomach is for food, but God will do away with both of them. Yet the body is not for immorality, but for the Lord, and the Lord is for the body.

However not all men have this knowledge; but some, being accustomed to the idol until now, eat food as if it were sacrificed to an idol; and their conscience being weak is defiled.

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

Therefore, if food causes my brother to stumble, I will never eat meat again, so that I will not cause my brother to stumble.

Do you not know that those who perform sacred services eat the food of the temple, and those who attend regularly to the altar have their share from the altar?

and all ate the same spiritual food;

Now He who supplies seed to the sower and bread for food will supply and multiply your seed for sowing and increase the harvest of your righteousness;

I have been in labor and hardship, through many sleepless nights, in hunger and thirst, often without food, in cold and exposure.

Therefore no one is to act as your judge in regard to food or drink or in respect to a festival or a new moon or a Sabbath day—

If we have food and covering, with these we shall be content.

For though by this time you ought to be teachers, you have need again for someone to teach you the elementary principles of the oracles of God, and you have come to need milk and not solid food.

But solid food is for the mature, who because of practice have their senses trained to discern good and evil.

since they relate only to food and drink and various washings, regulations for the body imposed until a time of reformation.

If a brother or sister is without clothing and in need of daily food,