Bible Verses About Nutrition
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for nutrition, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 2,994 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 Nutrition
1 Corinthians 6:19-20275 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?
Genesis 1:29246 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 9:3160 votes
Every moving thing that liveth shall be meat for you; even as the green herb have I given you all things.
John 6:35127 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.
Proverbs 23:20-21113 votes
Be not among winebibbers; among riotous eaters of flesh:
Matthew 4:488 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.
Ezekiel 4:987 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 Corinthians 10:3169 votes
Whether therefore ye eat, or drink, or whatsoever ye do, do all to the glory of God.
Leviticus 7:23-2464 votes
Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, Ye shall eat no manner of fat, of ox, or of sheep, or of goat.
Daniel 1:11-1659 votes
Then said Daniel to Melzar, whom the prince of the eunuchs had set over Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah,
Leviticus 11:1-4758 votes
And the Lord spake unto Moses and to Aaron, saying unto them,
Ephesians 5:1858 votes
And be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess; but be filled with the Spirit;
Isaiah 25:657 votes
And in this mountain shall the Lord of hosts make unto all people a feast of fat things, a feast of wines on the lees, of fat things full of marrow, of wines on the lees well refined.
Deuteronomy 8:356 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.
Leviticus 7:2352 votes
Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, Ye shall eat no manner of fat, of ox, or of sheep, or of goat.
1 Corinthians 10:2552 votes
Whatsoever is sold in the shambles, that eat, asking no question for conscience sake:
Daniel 1:1-2148 votes
In the third year of the reign of Jehoiakim king of Judah came Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon unto Jerusalem, and besieged it.
3 John 1:244 votes
Beloved, I wish above all things that thou mayest prosper and be in health, even as thy soul prospereth.
Proverbs 30:8-941 votes
Remove far from me vanity and lies: give me neither poverty nor riches; feed me with food convenient for me:
Daniel 1:1241 votes
Prove thy servants, I beseech thee, ten days; and let them give us pulse to eat, and water to drink.
Daniel 1:1538 votes
And at the end of ten days their countenances appeared fairer and fatter in flesh than all the children which did eat the portion of the king’s meat.
John 12:2437 votes
Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except a corn of wheat fall into the ground and die, it abideth alone: but if it die, it bringeth forth much fruit.
1 Corinthians 6:1236 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.
Romans 14:1-2335 votes
Him that is weak in the faith receive ye, but not to doubtful disputations.
Deuteronomy 8:832 votes
A land of wheat, and barley, and vines, and fig trees, and pomegranates; a land of oil olive, and honey;
What does the Bible say about nutrition?
Readers most often cite 1 Corinthians 6:19-20 on the subject of nutrition. Across 2,994 votes, 25 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including Genesis 1:29, Genesis 9:3, John 6:35. This page lists all 25 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.