Bible Verses About Healthy Eating
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for healthy eating, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 10,369 votes, led by 1 Corinthians 6:19-20. Each passage links to its verse page or the interactive map; scripture is the King James Version.
Top verses about Healthy Eating
1 Corinthians 6:19-20934 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?
1 Corinthians 10:31765 votes
Whether therefore ye eat, or drink, or whatsoever ye do, do all to the glory of God.
Genesis 1:29563 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 9:27393 votes
But I keep under my body, and bring it into subjection: lest that by any means, when I have preached to others, I myself should be a castaway.
3 John 1:2344 votes
Beloved, I wish above all things that thou mayest prosper and be in health, even as thy soul prospereth.
1 Corinthians 3:16-17334 votes
Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?
Genesis 9:3326 votes
Every moving thing that liveth shall be meat for you; even as the green herb have I given you all things.
Proverbs 25:27294 votes
It is not good to eat much honey: so for men to search their own glory is not glory.
Romans 14:1-23267 votes
Him that is weak in the faith receive ye, but not to doubtful disputations.
1 Corinthians 6:12253 votes
All things are lawful unto me, but all things are not expedient: all things are lawful for me, but I will not be brought under the power of any.
John 6:35212 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.
Exodus 23:25208 votes
And ye shall serve the Lord your God, and he shall bless thy bread, and thy water; and I will take sickness away from the midst of thee.
Romans 12:1207 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.
Matthew 4:4202 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.
Romans 12:2196 votes
And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.
Daniel 1:8-20194 votes
But Daniel purposed in his heart that he would not defile himself with the portion of the king’s meat, nor with the wine which he drank: therefore he requested of the prince of the eunuchs that he might not defile himself.
Leviticus 11:1-47170 votes
And the Lord spake unto Moses and to Aaron, saying unto them,
Proverbs 23:21167 votes
For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty: and drowsiness shall clothe a man with rags.
Proverbs 23:2154 votes
And put a knife to thy throat, if thou be a man given to appetite.
Deuteronomy 14:8136 votes
And the swine, because it divideth the hoof, yet cheweth not the cud, it is unclean unto you: ye shall not eat of their flesh, nor touch their dead carcase.
Mark 7:15-19130 votes
There is nothing from without a man, that entering into him can defile him: but the things which come out of him, those are they that defile the man.
Leviticus 3:17126 votes
It shall be a perpetual statute for your generations throughout all your dwellings, that ye eat neither fat nor blood.
Ezekiel 4:9116 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.
1 Timothy 4:1-5112 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;
Proverbs 23:192 votes
When thou sittest to eat with a ruler, consider diligently what is before thee:
What does the Bible say about healthy eating?
Readers most often cite 1 Corinthians 6:19-20 on the subject of healthy eating. Across 10,369 votes, 25 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including 1 Corinthians 10:31, Genesis 1:29, 1 Corinthians 9:27. This page lists all 25 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.