Bible Verses About Eating the Right Foods
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These are the Bible verses most often cited for eating the right foods, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 48,142 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 Eating the Right Foods
Genesis 1:291,780 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.
Genesis 9:31,368 votes
Every moving thing that liveth shall be meat for you; even as the green herb have I given you all things.
1 Corinthians 10:311,273 votes
Whether therefore ye eat, or drink, or whatsoever ye do, do all to the glory of God.
Leviticus 11:1-47946 votes
And the Lord spake unto Moses and to Aaron, saying unto them,
1 Corinthians 6:19-20921 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?
Matthew 4:4909 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.
John 6:35832 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.
Mark 7:19786 votes
Because it entereth not into his heart, but into the belly, and goeth out into the draught, purging all meats?
1 Corinthians 8:8698 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.
John 6:27687 votes
Labour not for the meat which perisheth, but for that meat which endureth unto everlasting life, which the Son of man shall give unto you: for him hath God the Father sealed.
Matthew 6:25661 votes
Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life more than meat, and the body than raiment?
Proverbs 25:27622 votes
It is not good to eat much honey: so for men to search their own glory is not glory.
Romans 12:1-2622 votes
I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service.
1 Corinthians 6:19595 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?
Proverbs 23:2590 votes
And put a knife to thy throat, if thou be a man given to appetite.
Proverbs 25:16569 votes
Hast thou found honey? eat so much as is sufficient for thee, lest thou be filled therewith, and vomit it.
1 Corinthians 10:25550 votes
Whatsoever is sold in the shambles, that eat, asking no question for conscience sake:
Proverbs 23:20-21544 votes
Be not among winebibbers; among riotous eaters of flesh:
Acts 10:15541 votes
And the voice spake unto him again the second time, What God hath cleansed, that call not thou common.
Revelation 1:1538 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:
Romans 14:1-23528 votes
Him that is weak in the faith receive ye, but not to doubtful disputations.
1 Timothy 4:4514 votes
For every creature of God is good, and nothing to be refused, if it be received with thanksgiving:
Romans 10:4498 votes
For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to every one that believeth.
Matthew 5:6492 votes
Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled.
Ezekiel 4:9475 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.
What does the Bible say about eating the right foods?
Readers most often cite Genesis 1:29 on the subject of eating the right foods. Across 48,142 votes, 25 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including Genesis 9:3, 1 Corinthians 10:31, Leviticus 11:1-47. This page lists all 25 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.