Bible Verses About Meat
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for meat, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 1,262 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 Meat
Genesis 9:354 votes
Every moving thing that liveth shall be meat for you; even as the green herb have I given you all things.
Romans 14:245 votes
For one believeth that he may eat all things: another, who is weak, eateth herbs.
Genesis 1:2940 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 10:3133 votes
Whether therefore ye eat, or drink, or whatsoever ye do, do all to the glory of God.
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.
Leviticus 11:1-4728 votes
And the Lord spake unto Moses and to Aaron, saying unto them,
1 Timothy 4:1-526 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 1:3025 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.
Romans 14:1724 votes
For the kingdom of God is not meat and drink; but righteousness, and peace, and joy in the Holy Ghost.
Romans 14:2123 votes
It is good neither to eat flesh, nor to drink wine, nor any thing whereby thy brother stumbleth, or is offended, or is made weak.
Colossians 2:1623 votes
Let no man therefore judge you in meat, or in drink, or in respect of an holyday, or of the new moon, or of the sabbath days:
1 Corinthians 8:822 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 6:2721 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.
Romans 14:321 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.
Genesis 1:29-3120 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 9:420 votes
But flesh with the life thereof, which is the blood thereof, shall ye not eat.
1 Timothy 4:3-519 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.
Revelation 1:119 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 14:1-2318 votes
Him that is weak in the faith receive ye, but not to doubtful disputations.
1 Timothy 4:317 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.
Genesis 1:29-3016 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 3:1716 votes
It shall be a perpetual statute for your generations throughout all your dwellings, that ye eat neither fat nor blood.
Leviticus 11:216 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 1:1216 votes
Prove thy servants, I beseech thee, ten days; and let them give us pulse to eat, and water to drink.
Mark 7:1916 votes
Because it entereth not into his heart, but into the belly, and goeth out into the draught, purging all meats?
What does the Bible say about meat?
Readers most often cite Genesis 9:3 on the subject of meat. Across 1,262 votes, 25 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including Romans 14:2, Genesis 1:29, 1 Corinthians 10:31. This page lists all 25 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.