Bible Verses About Abstaining From Meat
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for abstaining from meat, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 1,180 votes, led by 1 Timothy 4:1-16. Each passage links to its verse page or the interactive map; scripture is the King James Version.
Top verses about Abstaining From Meat
1 Timothy 4:1-1669 votes
Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils;
Leviticus 11:1-4759 votes
And the Lord spake unto Moses and to Aaron, saying unto them,
Acts 15:2958 votes
That ye abstain from meats offered to idols, and from blood, and from things strangled, and from fornication: from which if ye keep yourselves, ye shall do well. Fare ye well.
1 Timothy 4:350 votes
Forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain from meats, which God hath created to be received with thanksgiving of them which believe and know the truth.
Romans 14:2148 votes
It is good neither to eat flesh, nor to drink wine, nor any thing whereby thy brother stumbleth, or is offended, or is made weak.
Genesis 9:346 votes
Every moving thing that liveth shall be meat for you; even as the green herb have I given you all things.
Romans 14:1-2345 votes
Him that is weak in the faith receive ye, but not to doubtful disputations.
Colossians 2:1625 votes
Let no man therefore judge you in meat, or in drink, or in respect of an holyday, or of the new moon, or of the sabbath days:
Genesis 1:2924 votes
And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat.
1 Corinthians 10:3124 votes
Whether therefore ye eat, or drink, or whatsoever ye do, do all to the glory of God.
Romans 14:323 votes
Let not him that eateth despise him that eateth not; and let not him which eateth not judge him that eateth: for God hath received him.
1 Corinthians 8:1323 votes
Wherefore, if meat make my brother to offend, I will eat no flesh while the world standeth, lest I make my brother to offend.
Mark 7:1922 votes
Because it entereth not into his heart, but into the belly, and goeth out into the draught, purging all meats?
1 Corinthians 8:821 votes
But meat commendeth us not to God: for neither, if we eat, are we the better; neither, if we eat not, are we the worse.
1 Timothy 4:421 votes
For every creature of God is good, and nothing to be refused, if it be received with thanksgiving:
Isaiah 65:2520 votes
The wolf and the lamb shall feed together, and the lion shall eat straw like the bullock: and dust shall be the serpent’s meat. They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain, saith the Lord.
Daniel 1:1219 votes
Prove thy servants, I beseech thee, ten days; and let them give us pulse to eat, and water to drink.
John 14:619 votes
Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.
Acts 15:2018 votes
But that we write unto them, that they abstain from pollutions of idols, and from fornication, and from things strangled, and from blood.
Romans 14:218 votes
For one believeth that he may eat all things: another, who is weak, eateth herbs.
Luke 24:42-4316 votes
And they gave him a piece of a broiled fish, and of an honeycomb.
Acts 15:1-4116 votes
And certain men which came down from Judea taught the brethren, and said, Except ye be circumcised after the manner of Moses, ye cannot be saved.
1 Timothy 4:116 votes
Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils;
1 Timothy 4:3-516 votes
Forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain from meats, which God hath created to be received with thanksgiving of them which believe and know the truth.
Hebrews 13:416 votes
Marriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.
What does the Bible say about abstaining from meat?
Readers most often cite 1 Timothy 4:1-16 on the subject of abstaining from meat. Across 1,180 votes, 25 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including Leviticus 11:1-47, Acts 15:29, 1 Timothy 4:3. This page lists all 25 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.