Bible Verses About Eating Meat
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for eating meat, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 46,538 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 Meat
Genesis 9:31,737 votes
Every moving thing that liveth shall be meat for you; even as the green herb have I given you all things.
Romans 14:1-231,396 votes
Him that is weak in the faith receive ye, but not to doubtful disputations.
Leviticus 11:1-471,324 votes
And the Lord spake unto Moses and to Aaron, saying unto them,
Genesis 1:29901 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 14:2870 votes
For one believeth that he may eat all things: another, who is weak, eateth herbs.
Romans 14:21865 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.
Mark 7:19809 votes
Because it entereth not into his heart, but into the belly, and goeth out into the draught, purging all meats?
1 Corinthians 10:31805 votes
Whether therefore ye eat, or drink, or whatsoever ye do, do all to the glory of God.
1 Corinthians 8:8803 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.
Deuteronomy 14:1-29757 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 8:13744 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.
Romans 14:3671 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.
Matthew 15:11659 votes
Not that which goeth into the mouth defileth a man; but that which cometh out of the mouth, this defileth a man.
Daniel 1:12621 votes
Prove thy servants, I beseech thee, ten days; and let them give us pulse to eat, and water to drink.
Deuteronomy 12:20616 votes
When the Lord thy God shall enlarge thy border, as he hath promised thee, and thou shalt say, I will eat flesh, because thy soul longeth to eat flesh; thou mayest eat flesh, whatsoever thy soul lusteth after.
Acts 15:29593 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 4:1-16578 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 4:3-5578 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.
Genesis 1:29-31559 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 19:26521 votes
Ye shall not eat any thing with the blood: neither shall ye use enchantment, nor observe times.
1 Corinthians 10:25517 votes
Whatsoever is sold in the shambles, that eat, asking no question for conscience sake:
Proverbs 23:20-21470 votes
Be not among winebibbers; among riotous eaters of flesh:
Isaiah 66:3464 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.
Romans 14:14463 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.
1 Timothy 4:1-5435 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;
What does the Bible say about eating meat?
Readers most often cite Genesis 9:3 on the subject of eating meat. Across 46,538 votes, 25 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including Romans 14:1-23, Leviticus 11:1-47, Genesis 1:29. This page lists all 25 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.