Bible Verses About Eating
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These are the Bible verses most often cited for eating, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 4,968 votes, led by 1 Corinthians 10:31. Each passage links to its verse page or the interactive map; scripture is the King James Version.
Top verses about Eating
1 Corinthians 10:31275 votes
Whether therefore ye eat, or drink, or whatsoever ye do, do all to the glory of God.
Genesis 1:29230 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 9:3203 votes
Every moving thing that liveth shall be meat for you; even as the green herb have I given you all things.
Leviticus 11:1-47151 votes
And the Lord spake unto Moses and to Aaron, saying unto them,
Matthew 6:25123 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 23:20-21119 votes
Be not among winebibbers; among riotous eaters of flesh:
1 Corinthians 8:8119 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.
1 Timothy 4:3-5112 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.
Romans 14:1-2396 votes
Him that is weak in the faith receive ye, but not to doubtful disputations.
Matthew 4:492 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 6:3587 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.
Ecclesiastes 9:785 votes
Go thy way, eat thy bread with joy, and drink thy wine with a merry heart; for God now accepteth thy works.
Matthew 15:1181 votes
Not that which goeth into the mouth defileth a man; but that which cometh out of the mouth, this defileth a man.
John 6:2777 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.
1 Corinthians 6:19-2077 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?
Romans 14:1775 votes
For the kingdom of God is not meat and drink; but righteousness, and peace, and joy in the Holy Ghost.
Proverbs 25:2773 votes
It is not good to eat much honey: so for men to search their own glory is not glory.
Proverbs 25:1668 votes
Hast thou found honey? eat so much as is sufficient for thee, lest thou be filled therewith, and vomit it.
1 Timothy 4:454 votes
For every creature of God is good, and nothing to be refused, if it be received with thanksgiving:
Romans 14:252 votes
For one believeth that he may eat all things: another, who is weak, eateth herbs.
Deuteronomy 8:348 votes
And he humbled thee, and suffered thee to hunger, and fed thee with manna, which thou knewest not, neither did thy fathers know; that he might make thee know that man doth not live by bread only, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of the Lord doth man live.
Romans 14:346 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.
1 Corinthians 10:2545 votes
Whatsoever is sold in the shambles, that eat, asking no question for conscience sake:
Ecclesiastes 3:12-1344 votes
I know that there is no good in them, but for a man to rejoice, and to do good in his life.
Ecclesiastes 10:1743 votes
Blessed art thou, O land, when thy king is the son of nobles, and thy princes eat in due season, for strength, and not for drunkenness!
What does the Bible say about eating?
Readers most often cite 1 Corinthians 10:31 on the subject of eating. Across 4,968 votes, 25 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including Genesis 1:29, Genesis 9:3, 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.