Bible Verses About Diet and Nutrition
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for diet and nutrition, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 3,700 votes, led by Genesis 1:29. Each passage links to its verse page or the interactive map; scripture is the King James Version.
Top verses about Diet and Nutrition
Genesis 1:29312 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 6:19-20215 votes
What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own?
1 Corinthians 10:31207 votes
Whether therefore ye eat, or drink, or whatsoever ye do, do all to the glory of God.
Genesis 9:3150 votes
Every moving thing that liveth shall be meat for you; even as the green herb have I given you all things.
Daniel 1:12125 votes
Prove thy servants, I beseech thee, ten days; and let them give us pulse to eat, and water to drink.
Romans 14:1-23111 votes
Him that is weak in the faith receive ye, but not to doubtful disputations.
Daniel 1:15110 votes
And at the end of ten days their countenances appeared fairer and fatter in flesh than all the children which did eat the portion of the king’s meat.
Leviticus 3:1789 votes
It shall be a perpetual statute for your generations throughout all your dwellings, that ye eat neither fat nor blood.
Leviticus 7:23-2489 votes
Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, Ye shall eat no manner of fat, of ox, or of sheep, or of goat.
John 6:3588 votes
And Jesus said unto them, I am the bread of life: he that cometh to me shall never hunger; and he that believeth on me shall never thirst.
Ezekiel 4:987 votes
Take thou also unto thee wheat, and barley, and beans, and lentiles, and millet, and fitches, and put them in one vessel, and make thee bread thereof, according to the number of the days that thou shalt lie upon thy side, three hundred and ninety days shalt thou eat thereof.
1 Corinthians 6:1284 votes
All things are lawful unto me, but all things are not expedient: all things are lawful for me, but I will not be brought under the power of any.
Leviticus 11:4-4479 votes
Nevertheless these shall ye not eat of them that chew the cud, or of them that divide the hoof: as the camel, because he cheweth the cud, but divideth not the hoof; he is unclean unto you.
Deuteronomy 8:874 votes
A land of wheat, and barley, and vines, and fig trees, and pomegranates; a land of oil olive, and honey;
Leviticus 11:1-4770 votes
And the Lord spake unto Moses and to Aaron, saying unto them,
1 Peter 5:767 votes
Casting all your care upon him; for he careth for you.
Genesis 2:1657 votes
And the Lord God commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat:
Luke 24:4248 votes
And they gave him a piece of a broiled fish, and of an honeycomb.
1 Timothy 4:1-445 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;
Matthew 4:444 votes
But he answered and said, It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God.
1 Corinthians 3:1644 votes
Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?
Exodus 15:2643 votes
And said, If thou wilt diligently hearken to the voice of the Lord thy God, and wilt do that which is right in his sight, and wilt give ear to his commandments, and keep all his statutes, I will put none of these diseases upon thee, which I have brought upon the Egyptians: for I am the Lord that healeth thee.
Leviticus 11:241 votes
Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, These are the beasts which ye shall eat among all the beasts that are on the earth.
Proverbs 23:20-2138 votes
Be not among winebibbers; among riotous eaters of flesh:
3 John 1:237 votes
Beloved, I wish above all things that thou mayest prosper and be in health, even as thy soul prospereth.
What does the Bible say about diet and nutrition?
Readers most often cite Genesis 1:29 on the subject of diet and nutrition. Across 3,700 votes, 25 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including 1 Corinthians 6:19-20, 1 Corinthians 10:31, Genesis 9:3. This page lists all 25 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.