Bible Verses About Eating Animals
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for eating animals, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 8,957 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 Eating Animals
Genesis 9:3861 votes
Every moving thing that liveth shall be meat for you; even as the green herb have I given you all things.
Leviticus 11:1-47512 votes
And the Lord spake unto Moses and to Aaron, saying unto them,
Romans 14:1-23354 votes
Him that is weak in the faith receive ye, but not to doubtful disputations.
Genesis 1:30299 votes
And to every beast of the earth, and to every fowl of the air, and to every thing that creepeth upon the earth, wherein there is life, I have given every green herb for meat: and it was so.
Deuteronomy 14:1-29271 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.
Acts 10:9-16205 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:
Leviticus 11:2176 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.
Mark 7:19162 votes
Because it entereth not into his heart, but into the belly, and goeth out into the draught, purging all meats?
Genesis 1:29156 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.
Proverbs 12:10155 votes
A righteous man regardeth the life of his beast: but the tender mercies of the wicked are cruel.
Romans 14:21137 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 1:26136 votes
And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.
Isaiah 66:3118 votes
He that killeth an ox is as if he slew a man; he that sacrificeth a lamb, as if he cut off a dog’s neck; he that offereth an oblation, as if he offered swine’s blood; he that burneth incense, as if he blessed an idol. Yea, they have chosen their own ways, and their soul delighteth in their abominations.
Genesis 1:29-31115 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.
Leviticus 11:1-30115 votes
And the Lord spake unto Moses and to Aaron, saying unto them,
Isaiah 11:6-9114 votes
The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid; and the calf and the young lion and the fatling together; and a little child shall lead them.
Mark 7:1-37102 votes
Then came together unto him the Pharisees, and certain of the scribes, which came from Jerusalem.
Deuteronomy 14:3-21100 votes
Thou shalt not eat any abominable thing.
Genesis 9:499 votes
But flesh with the life thereof, which is the blood thereof, shall ye not eat.
Acts 15:2999 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.
Proverbs 6:16-1797 votes
These six things doth the Lord hate: yea, seven are an abomination unto him:
Daniel 1:1285 votes
Prove thy servants, I beseech thee, ten days; and let them give us pulse to eat, and water to drink.
Genesis 1:29-3081 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 14:1481 votes
I know, and am persuaded by the Lord Jesus, that there is nothing unclean of itself: but to him that esteemeth any thing to be unclean, to him it is unclean.
Colossians 2:1676 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:
What does the Bible say about eating animals?
Readers most often cite Genesis 9:3 on the subject of eating animals. Across 8,957 votes, 25 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including Leviticus 11:1-47, Romans 14:1-23, Genesis 1:30. This page lists all 25 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.