Bible Verses About Spiritual Food
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for spiritual food, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 1,458 votes, led by John 6:50-71. Each passage links to its verse page or the interactive map; scripture is the King James Version.
Top verses about Spiritual Food
John 6:50-71135 votes
This is the bread which cometh down from heaven, that a man may eat thereof, and not die.
Matthew 5:6118 votes
Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled.
John 6:55-5986 votes
For my flesh is meat indeed, and my blood is drink indeed.
Matthew 4:483 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.
1 Peter 2:270 votes
As newborn babes, desire the sincere milk of the word, that ye may grow thereby:
Acts 2:4245 votes
And they continued stedfastly in the apostles’ doctrine and fellowship, and in breaking of bread, and in prayers.
1 Kings 19:843 votes
And he arose, and did eat and drink, and went in the strength of that meat forty days and forty nights unto Horeb the mount of God.
Matthew 6:3343 votes
But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.
1 Corinthians 3:1641 votes
Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?
Ezekiel 34:1-639 votes
And the word of the Lord came unto me, saying,
Malachi 3:1039 votes
Bring ye all the tithes into the storehouse, that there may be meat in mine house, and prove me now herewith, saith the Lord of hosts, if I will not open you the windows of heaven, and pour you out a blessing, that there shall not be room enough to receive it.
John 6:6338 votes
It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life.
John 6:67-7134 votes
Then said Jesus unto the twelve, Will ye also go away?
Luke 14:2831 votes
For which of you, intending to build a tower, sitteth not down first, and counteth the cost, whether he have sufficient to finish it?
1 Corinthians 10:329 votes
And did all eat the same spiritual meat;
Genesis 1:3027 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.
Matthew 23:1526 votes
Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye compass sea and land to make one proselyte, and when he is made, ye make him twofold more the child of hell than yourselves.
Ephesians 6:1125 votes
Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil.
Hebrews 5:12-1425 votes
For when for the time ye ought to be teachers, ye have need that one teach you again which be the first principles of the oracles of God; and are become such as have need of milk, and not of strong meat.
Matthew 23:324 votes
All therefore whatsoever they bid you observe, that observe and do; but do not ye after their works: for they say, and do not.
Matthew 23:1-322 votes
Then spake Jesus to the multitude, and to his disciples,
Deuteronomy 8:321 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.
John 6:3521 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.
Jeremiah 3:1519 votes
And I will give you pastors according to mine heart, which shall feed you with knowledge and understanding.
Romans 12:119 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.
What does the Bible say about spiritual food?
Readers most often cite John 6:50-71 on the subject of spiritual food. Across 1,458 votes, 25 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including Matthew 5:6, John 6:55-59, Matthew 4:4. This page lists all 25 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.