Bible Verses About Eating Red Meat
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These are the Bible verses most often cited for eating red meat, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 1,184 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 Red Meat
Genesis 9:3132 votes
Every moving thing that liveth shall be meat for you; even as the green herb have I given you all things.
Romans 14:1-23128 votes
Him that is weak in the faith receive ye, but not to doubtful disputations.
Leviticus 11:1-4784 votes
And the Lord spake unto Moses and to Aaron, saying unto them,
Leviticus 3:1767 votes
It shall be a perpetual statute for your generations throughout all your dwellings, that ye eat neither fat nor blood.
1 Timothy 4:4-559 votes
For every creature of God is good, and nothing to be refused, if it be received with thanksgiving:
Genesis 1:2952 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 10:2542 votes
Whatsoever is sold in the shambles, that eat, asking no question for conscience sake:
Leviticus 7:2340 votes
Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, Ye shall eat no manner of fat, of ox, or of sheep, or of goat.
Acts 15:2939 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 Corinthians 10:3137 votes
Whether therefore ye eat, or drink, or whatsoever ye do, do all to the glory of God.
1 Timothy 4:1-537 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;
Genesis 1:29-3136 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 11:231 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.
Daniel 1:1231 votes
Prove thy servants, I beseech thee, ten days; and let them give us pulse to eat, and water to drink.
1 Corinthians 8:1330 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 14:227 votes
For one believeth that he may eat all things: another, who is weak, eateth herbs.
Genesis 9:424 votes
But flesh with the life thereof, which is the blood thereof, shall ye not eat.
1 Samuel 25:1823 votes
Then Abigail made haste, and took two hundred loaves, and two bottles of wine, and five sheep ready dressed, and five measures of parched corn, and an hundred clusters of raisins, and two hundred cakes of figs, and laid them on asses.
Genesis 1:29-3021 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.
Exodus 12:821 votes
And they shall eat the flesh in that night, roast with fire, and unleavened bread; and with bitter herbs they shall eat it.
Deuteronomy 12:1621 votes
Only ye shall not eat the blood; ye shall pour it upon the earth as water.
Proverbs 23:20-2120 votes
Be not among winebibbers; among riotous eaters of flesh:
Mark 7:1920 votes
Because it entereth not into his heart, but into the belly, and goeth out into the draught, purging all meats?
Galatians 5:2120 votes
Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.
Genesis 18:816 votes
And he took butter, and milk, and the calf which he had dressed, and set it before them; and he stood by them under the tree, and they did eat.
What does the Bible say about eating red meat?
Readers most often cite Genesis 9:3 on the subject of eating red meat. Across 1,184 votes, 25 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including Romans 14:1-23, Leviticus 11:1-47, Leviticus 3:17. This page lists all 25 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.