Abstaining From Meat

But the Spirit says expressly that in later times some will fall away from the faith, paying attention to seducing spirits and doctrines of demons, — read the full passage →

Yahweh spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying to them, — read the full passage →

that you abstain from things sacrificed to idols, from blood, from things strangled, and from sexual immorality, from which if you keep yourselves, it will be well with you. Farewell.”

forbidding marriage and commanding to abstain from foods which God created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and know the truth.

It is good to not eat meat, drink wine, nor do anything by which your brother stumbles, is offended, or is made weak.

Now accept one who is weak in faith, but not for disputes over opinions. — read the full passage →

Every moving thing that lives will be food for you. As I gave you the green herb, I have given everything to you.

God said, “Behold, I have given you every herb yielding seed, which is on the surface of all the earth, and every tree, which bears fruit yielding seed. It will be your food.

Let no one therefore judge you in eating, or in drinking, or with respect to a feast day or a new moon or a Sabbath day,

Whether therefore you eat, or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.

Therefore if food causes my brother to stumble, I will eat no meat forever more, that I don’t cause my brother to stumble.

Don’t let him who eats despise him who doesn’t eat. Don’t let him who doesn’t eat judge him who eats, for God has accepted him.

because it doesn’t go into his heart, but into his stomach, then into the latrine, thus purifying all foods?”

For every creature of God is good, and nothing is to be rejected, if it is received with thanksgiving.

But food will not commend us to God. For neither, if we don’t eat, are we the worse; nor, if we eat, are we the better.

Test your servants, I beg you, ten days; and let them give us vegetables to eat, and water to drink.

The wolf and the lamb shall feed together, and the lion shall eat straw like the ox; and dust shall be the serpent’s food. They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain,” says Yahweh.

but that we write to them that they abstain from the pollution of idols, from sexual immorality, from what is strangled, and from blood.

Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father, except through me.

One man has faith to eat all things, but he who is weak eats only vegetables.

forbidding marriage and commanding to abstain from foods which God created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and know the truth. — read the full passage →

Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the bed be undefiled: but God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers.

For God didn’t give us a spirit of fear, but of power, love, and self-control.

But the Spirit says expressly that in later times some will fall away from the faith, paying attention to seducing spirits and doctrines of demons,

Some men came down from Judea and taught the brothers, “Unless you are circumcised after the custom of Moses, you can’t be saved.” — read the full passage →

They gave him a piece of a broiled fish and some honeycomb. — read the full passage →

Beloved, I beg you as foreigners and pilgrims, to abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;

For everything spoken by God is possible.”

Trust in Yahweh with all your heart, and don’t lean on your own understanding.

casting all your worries on him, because he cares for you.

If you died with Christ from the elements of the world, why, as though living in the world, do you subject yourselves to ordinances, — read the full passage →

Whatever is sold in the butcher shop, eat, asking no question for the sake of conscience,

for the Kingdom of God is not eating and drinking, but righteousness, peace, and joy in the Holy Spirit.

He who observes the day, observes it to the Lord; and he who does not observe the day, to the Lord he does not observe it. He who eats, eats to the Lord, for he gives God thanks. He who doesn’t eat, to the Lord he doesn’t eat, and gives God thanks.

Don’t you be afraid, for I am with you. Don’t be dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you. Yes, I will help you. Yes, I will uphold you with the right hand of my righteousness.

The pig, because he has a split hoof, and is cloven-footed, but doesn’t chew the cud, he is unclean to you.

God said, “Behold, I have given you every herb yielding seed, which is on the surface of all the earth, and every tree, which bears fruit yielding seed. It will be your food. — read the full passage →

Abstain from every form of evil.

He took bread, and when he had given thanks, he broke it, and gave to them, saying, “This is my body which is given for you. Do this in memory of me.”

For it is sanctified through the word of God and prayer.

I can do all things through Christ, who strengthens me.

Or don’t you know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit which is in you, which you have from God? You are not your own,

“All things are lawful for me,” but not all things are expedient. “All things are lawful for me,” but I will not be brought under the power of anything.

Yet if because of food your brother is grieved, you walk no longer in love. Don’t destroy with your food him for whom Christ died.

That which enters into the mouth doesn’t defile the man; but that which proceeds out of the mouth, this defiles the man.”

The wolf will live with the lamb, and the leopard will lie down with the young goat; The calf, the young lion, and the fattened calf together; and a little child will lead them. — read the full passage →

For this is the will of God: your sanctification, that you abstain from sexual immorality,

I have been crucified with Christ, and it is no longer I that live, but Christ living in me. That life which I now live in the flesh, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself up for me.

I know, and am persuaded in the Lord Jesus, that nothing is unclean of itself; except that to him who considers anything to be unclean, to him it is unclean.

Don’t be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what is the good, well-pleasing, and perfect will of God.

Therefore I urge you, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service.

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

For I didn’t speak to your fathers, nor command them in the day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt, concerning burnt offerings or sacrifices: — read the full passage →

Don’t be carried away by various and strange teachings, for it is good that the heart be established by grace, not by food, through which those who were so occupied were not benefited.

If you instruct the brothers of these things, you will be a good servant of Christ Jesus, nourished in the words of the faith, and of the good doctrine which you have followed.

through the hypocrisy of men who speak lies, branded in their own conscience as with a hot iron;

But sexual immorality, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not even be mentioned among you, as becomes saints;

Don’t be deceived. God is not mocked, for whatever a man sows, that he will also reap.

For John the Baptizer came neither eating bread nor drinking wine, and you say, ‘He has a demon.’

For I desire mercy, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings.

You are the children of Yahweh your God. You shall not cut yourselves, nor make any baldness between your eyes for the dead. — read the full passage →

In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.

Flee from youthful lusts; but pursue righteousness, faith, love, and peace with those who call on the Lord out of a pure heart.

Be no longer a drinker of water only, but use a little wine for your stomach’s sake and your frequent infirmities.

For bodily exercise has some value, but godliness has value in all things, having the promise of the life which is now, and of that which is to come.

Servants, in the same way, must be reverent, not double-tongued, not addicted to much wine, not greedy for money;

For this is the will of God: your sanctification, that you abstain from sexual immorality, — read the full passage →

For I desire to have you know how greatly I struggle for you, and for those at Laodicea, and for as many as have not seen my face in the flesh; — read the full passage →

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faith,

But be careful that by no means does this liberty of yours become a stumbling block to the weak.

But he who doubts is condemned if he eats, because it isn’t of faith; and whatever is not of faith is sin. Now to him who is able to establish you according to my Good News and the preaching of Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the mystery which has been kept secret through long ages, but now is revealed, and by the Scriptures of the prophets, according to the commandment of the eternal God, is made known for obedience of faith to all the nations; to the only wise God, through Jesus Christ, to whom be the glory forever! Amen.

One man has faith to eat all things, but he who is weak eats only vegetables. — read the full passage →

The brothers immediately sent Paul and Silas away by night to Beroea. When they arrived, they went into the Jewish synagogue. — read the full passage →

Behold, that which I have seen to be good and proper is for one to eat and to drink, and to enjoy good in all his labor, in which he labors under the sun, all the days of his life which God has given him; for this is his portion.

put a knife to your throat, if you are a man given to appetite.

God said to Moses, “I AM WHO I AM,” and he said, “You shall tell the children of Israel this: ‘I AM has sent me to you.’”

Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, then I will come in to him, and will dine with him, and he with me.

This is the Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things which must happen soon, which he sent and made known by his angel to his servant, John, — read the full passage →

Command and teach these things.

Put to death therefore your members which are on the earth: sexual immorality, uncleanness, depraved passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry;

Finally, brothers, whatever things are true, whatever things are honorable, whatever things are just, whatever things are pure, whatever things are lovely, whatever things are of good report; if there is any virtue, and if there is any praise, think about these things.

In nothing be anxious, but in everything, by prayer and petition with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God.

Now to him who is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that works in us,

Now the works of the flesh are obvious, which are: adultery, sexual immorality, uncleanness, lustfulness, — read the full passage →

All the multitude kept silence, and they listened to Barnabas and Paul reporting what signs and wonders God had done among the nations through them.

Now there was a certain man in Caesarea, Cornelius by name, a centurion of what was called the Italian Regiment, — read the full passage →

When he had sat down at the table with them, he took the bread and gave thanks. Breaking it, he gave to them.

In the third year of the reign of Jehoiakim king of Judah came Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon to Jerusalem, and besieged it. — read the full passage →

Yahweh is my shepherd: I shall lack nothing. — read the full passage →

Masters, give to your servants that which is just and equal, knowing that you also have a Master in heaven. — read the full passage →

If then you were raised together with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated on the right hand of God. — read the full passage →

Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus through the will of God, and Timothy our brother, — read the full passage →

Don’t be drunken with wine, in which is dissipation, but be filled with the Spirit,

For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared before that we would walk in them.

for by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God,

The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, the love of God, and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit, be with you all. Amen.

One man esteems one day as more important. Another esteems every day alike. Let each man be fully assured in his own mind.

They told him, “We only have here five loaves and two fish.” — read the full passage →

Balaam rose up in the morning, and saddled his donkey, and went with the princes of Moab. — read the full passage →

God blessed Noah and his sons, and said to them, “Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth. — read the full passage →