Bible Verses About Foods
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for foods, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 157 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 Foods
Genesis 1:2925 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 15:1715 votes
Better is a dinner of herbs where love is, than a stalled ox and hatred therewith.
Genesis 1:3014 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.
Genesis 9:311 votes
Every moving thing that liveth shall be meat for you; even as the green herb have I given you all things.
Psalms 136:2511 votes
Who giveth food to all flesh: for his mercy endureth for ever.
John 6:2711 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.
Psalms 104:1410 votes
He causeth the grass to grow for the cattle, and herb for the service of man: that he may bring forth food out of the earth;
Proverbs 30:810 votes
Remove far from me vanity and lies: give me neither poverty nor riches; feed me with food convenient for me:
Ecclesiastes 9:710 votes
Go thy way, eat thy bread with joy, and drink thy wine with a merry heart; for God now accepteth thy works.
Matthew 4:410 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.
Matthew 6:2510 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?
John 6:3510 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.
1 Corinthians 10:3110 votes
Whether therefore ye eat, or drink, or whatsoever ye do, do all to the glory of God.
What does the Bible say about foods?
Readers most often cite Genesis 1:29 on the subject of foods. Across 157 votes, 13 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including Proverbs 15:17, Genesis 1:30, Genesis 9:3. This page lists all 13 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.