Bible Verses About Can You Eat Meat
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These are the Bible verses most often cited for can you eat meat, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 1,623 votes, led by Genesis 9:3. Each passage links to its verse page or the interactive map; scripture is the King James Version.
Top verses about Can You Eat Meat
Genesis 9:3258 votes
Every moving thing that liveth shall be meat for you; even as the green herb have I given you all things.
Leviticus 11:1-47191 votes
And the Lord spake unto Moses and to Aaron, saying unto them,
Romans 14:2-3138 votes
For one believeth that he may eat all things: another, who is weak, eateth herbs.
1 Timothy 4:3-5112 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.
Deuteronomy 14:3-21107 votes
Thou shalt not eat any abominable thing.
Deuteronomy 14:1-2998 votes
Ye are the children of the Lord your God: ye shall not cut yourselves, nor make any baldness between your eyes for the dead.
1 Corinthians 8:880 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.
Colossians 2:1679 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:
Acts 10:10-1553 votes
And he became very hungry, and would have eaten: but while they made ready, he fell into a trance,
Acts 10:9-1540 votes
On the morrow, as they went on their journey, and drew nigh unto the city, Peter went up upon the housetop to pray about the sixth hour:
1 Corinthians 10:23-2640 votes
All things are lawful for me, but all things are not expedient: all things are lawful for me, but all things edify not.
Romans 14:20-2236 votes
For meat destroy not the work of God. All things indeed are pure; but it is evil for that man who eateth with offence.
Acts 10:9-1634 votes
On the morrow, as they went on their journey, and drew nigh unto the city, Peter went up upon the housetop to pray about the sixth hour:
Mark 7:18-1932 votes
And he saith unto them, Are ye so without understanding also? Do ye not perceive, that whatsoever thing from without entereth into the man, it cannot defile him;
1 Corinthians 8:1-1331 votes
Now as touching things offered unto idols, we know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffeth up, but charity edifieth.
1 Timothy 4:1-531 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 Corinthians 10:23-3328 votes
All things are lawful for me, but all things are not expedient: all things are lawful for me, but all things edify not.
Genesis 1:2926 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.
Romans 14:1-2321 votes
Him that is weak in the faith receive ye, but not to doubtful disputations.
Deuteronomy 12:1520 votes
Notwithstanding thou mayest kill and eat flesh in all thy gates, whatsoever thy soul lusteth after, according to the blessing of the Lord thy God which he hath given thee: the unclean and the clean may eat thereof, as of the roebuck, and as of the hart.
Mark 7:15-1916 votes
There is nothing from without a man, that entering into him can defile him: but the things which come out of him, those are they that defile the man.
Acts 10:13-1516 votes
And there came a voice to him, Rise, Peter; kill, and eat.
Romans 14:2116 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.
1 Corinthians 10:23-3116 votes
All things are lawful for me, but all things are not expedient: all things are lawful for me, but all things edify not.
1 Corinthians 10:25-3116 votes
Whatsoever is sold in the shambles, that eat, asking no question for conscience sake:
What does the Bible say about can you eat meat?
Readers most often cite Genesis 9:3 on the subject of can you eat meat. Across 1,623 votes, 25 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including Leviticus 11:1-47, Romans 14:2-3, 1 Timothy 4:3-5. This page lists all 25 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.