Bible Verses About Vegetables
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for vegetables, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 1,469 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 Vegetables
Genesis 1:29261 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.
Daniel 1:12211 votes
Prove thy servants, I beseech thee, ten days; and let them give us pulse to eat, and water to drink.
Genesis 9:3167 votes
Every moving thing that liveth shall be meat for you; even as the green herb have I given you all things.
Romans 14:2157 votes
For one believeth that he may eat all things: another, who is weak, eateth herbs.
Daniel 1:16123 votes
Thus Melzar took away the portion of their meat, and the wine that they should drink; and gave them pulse.
Numbers 11:574 votes
We remember the fish, which we did eat in Egypt freely; the cucumbers, and the melons, and the leeks, and the onions, and the garlick:
Proverbs 15:1769 votes
Better is a dinner of herbs where love is, than a stalled ox and hatred therewith.
1 Corinthians 8:864 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.
1 Corinthians 10:3159 votes
Whether therefore ye eat, or drink, or whatsoever ye do, do all to the glory of God.
2 Kings 4:3952 votes
And one went out into the field to gather herbs, and found a wild vine, and gathered thereof wild gourds his lap full, and came and shred them into the pot of pottage: for they knew them not.
1 Corinthians 10:25-2644 votes
Whatsoever is sold in the shambles, that eat, asking no question for conscience sake:
Ezekiel 4:932 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.
Isaiah 61:1128 votes
For as the earth bringeth forth her bud, and as the garden causeth the things that are sown in it to spring forth; so the Lord God will cause righteousness and praise to spring forth before all the nations.
Ezekiel 47:1228 votes
And by the river upon the bank thereof, on this side and on that side, shall grow all trees for meat, whose leaf shall not fade, neither shall the fruit thereof be consumed: it shall bring forth new fruit according to his months, because their waters they issued out of the sanctuary: and the fruit thereof shall be for meat, and the leaf thereof for medicine.
1 Timothy 4:3-428 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.
Daniel 1:1-2119 votes
In the third year of the reign of Jehoiakim king of Judah came Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon unto Jerusalem, and besieged it.
Romans 14:1-2316 votes
Him that is weak in the faith receive ye, but not to doubtful disputations.
Daniel 1:11-1615 votes
Then said Daniel to Melzar, whom the prince of the eunuchs had set over Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah,
Exodus 12:812 votes
And they shall eat the flesh in that night, roast with fire, and unleavened bread; and with bitter herbs they shall eat it.
Deuteronomy 8:810 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 vegetables?
Readers most often cite Genesis 1:29 on the subject of vegetables. Across 1,469 votes, 20 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including Daniel 1:12, Genesis 9:3, Romans 14:2. This page lists all 20 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.