Bible Verses About Drinking Blood
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These are the Bible verses most often cited for drinking blood, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 3,423 votes, led by Leviticus 17:11. Each passage links to its verse page or the interactive map; scripture is the King James Version.
Top verses about Drinking Blood
Leviticus 17:11122 votes
For the life of the flesh is in the blood: and I have given it to you upon the altar to make an atonement for your souls: for it is the blood that maketh an atonement for the soul.
Acts 15:20120 votes
But that we write unto them, that they abstain from pollutions of idols, and from fornication, and from things strangled, and from blood.
Genesis 9:3-496 votes
Every moving thing that liveth shall be meat for you; even as the green herb have I given you all things.
Genesis 9:493 votes
But flesh with the life thereof, which is the blood thereof, shall ye not eat.
Leviticus 17:1478 votes
For it is the life of all flesh; the blood of it is for the life thereof: therefore I said unto the children of Israel, Ye shall eat the blood of no manner of flesh: for the life of all flesh is the blood thereof: whosoever eateth it shall be cut off.
Hebrews 9:2272 votes
And almost all things are by the law purged with blood; and without shedding of blood is no remission.
Leviticus 17:1068 votes
And whatsoever man there be of the house of Israel, or of the strangers that sojourn among you, that eateth any manner of blood; I will even set my face against that soul that eateth blood, and will cut him off from among his people.
Acts 15:2964 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.
Revelation 1:164 votes
The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave unto him, to shew unto his servants things which must shortly come to pass; and he sent and signified it by his angel unto his servant John:
Deuteronomy 12:2356 votes
Only be sure that thou eat not the blood: for the blood is the life; and thou mayest not eat the life with the flesh.
John 6:5356 votes
Then Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except ye eat the flesh of the Son of man, and drink his blood, ye have no life in you.
Leviticus 19:2653 votes
Ye shall not eat any thing with the blood: neither shall ye use enchantment, nor observe times.
1 John 1:753 votes
But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin.
Ephesians 1:750 votes
In whom we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of his grace;
Luke 22:2048 votes
Likewise also the cup after supper, saying, This cup is the new testament in my blood, which is shed for you.
Genesis 9:3-847 votes
Every moving thing that liveth shall be meat for you; even as the green herb have I given you all things.
Leviticus 7:2647 votes
Moreover ye shall eat no manner of blood, whether it be of fowl or of beast, in any of your dwellings.
Matthew 26:2847 votes
For this is my blood of the new testament, which is shed for many for the remission of sins.
Revelation 12:1147 votes
And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony; and they loved not their lives unto the death.
Leviticus 3:1746 votes
It shall be a perpetual statute for your generations throughout all your dwellings, that ye eat neither fat nor blood.
Leviticus 17:1-1646 votes
And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying,
Deuteronomy 12:1646 votes
Only ye shall not eat the blood; ye shall pour it upon the earth as water.
Hebrews 10:1946 votes
Having therefore, brethren, boldness to enter into the holiest by the blood of Jesus,
Acts 21:2542 votes
As touching the Gentiles which believe, we have written and concluded that they observe no such thing, save only that they keep themselves from things offered to idols, and from blood, and from strangled, and from fornication.
Hebrews 13:1242 votes
Wherefore Jesus also, that he might sanctify the people with his own blood, suffered without the gate.
What does the Bible say about drinking blood?
Readers most often cite Leviticus 17:11 on the subject of drinking blood. Across 3,423 votes, 25 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including Acts 15:20, Genesis 9:3-4, Genesis 9:4. This page lists all 25 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.