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Can You Eat Meat

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Genesis 9:3

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

Leviticus 11:1–47

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

Romans 14:2–3

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

1 Timothy 4:3–5

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 →

Deuteronomy 14:3–21

You shall not eat any abominable thing. — read the full passage →

Deuteronomy 14:1–29

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 →

1 Corinthians 8:8

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.

Colossians 2:16

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,

Acts 10:10–15

He became hungry and desired to eat, but while they were preparing, he fell into a trance. — read the full passage →

1 Corinthians 10:23–26

“All things are lawful for me,” but not all things are profitable. “All things are lawful for me,” but not all things build up. — read the full passage →

Acts 10:9–15

Now on the next day as they were on their journey, and got close to the city, Peter went up on the housetop to pray at about noon. — read the full passage →

Romans 14:20–22

Don’t overthrow God’s work for food’s sake. All things indeed are clean, however it is evil for that man who creates a stumbling block by eating. — read the full passage →

Acts 10:9–16

Now on the next day as they were on their journey, and got close to the city, Peter went up on the housetop to pray at about noon. — read the full passage →

Mark 7:18–19

He said to them, “Are you thus without understanding also? Don’t you perceive that whatever goes into the man from outside can’t defile him, — read the full passage →

1 Timothy 4:1–5

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 →

1 Corinthians 8:1–13

Now concerning things sacrificed to idols: We know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffs up, but love builds up. — read the full passage →

1 Corinthians 10:23–33

“All things are lawful for me,” but not all things are profitable. “All things are lawful for me,” but not all things build up. — read the full passage →

Genesis 1:29

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.

Romans 14:1–23

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

Deuteronomy 12:15

Notwithstanding, you may kill and eat flesh within all your gates, after all the desire of your soul, according to Yahweh your God’s blessing which he has given you. The unclean and the clean may eat of it, as of the gazelle, and as of the deer.

1 Corinthians 10:25–31

Whatever is sold in the butcher shop, eat, asking no question for the sake of conscience, — read the full passage →

1 Corinthians 10:23–31

“All things are lawful for me,” but not all things are profitable. “All things are lawful for me,” but not all things build up. — read the full passage →

Romans 14:21

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

Acts 10:13–15

A voice came to him, “Rise, Peter, kill and eat!” — read the full passage →

Mark 7:15–19

There is nothing from outside of the man, that going into him can defile him; but the things which proceed out of the man are those that defile the man. — read the full passage →

Luke 24:42–43

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

1 Timothy 4:3–4

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 →

Romans 14:2

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

Deuteronomy 12:20

When Yahweh your God enlarges your border, as he has promised you, and you shall say, “I want to eat meat,” because your soul desires to eat meat; you may eat meat, after all the desire of your soul.

Luke 24:41–43

While they still didn’t believe for joy, and wondered, he said to them, “Do you have anything here to eat?” — read the full passage →

1 Timothy 4:1–16

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 →

Matthew 15:11

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

1 Corinthians 10:25–26

Whatever is sold in the butcher shop, eat, asking no question for the sake of conscience, — read the full passage →

Acts 15:28–29

For it seemed good to the Holy Spirit, and to us, to lay no greater burden on you than these necessary things: — read the full passage →

Mark 7:18–20

He said to them, “Are you thus without understanding also? Don’t you perceive that whatever goes into the man from outside can’t defile him, — read the full passage →

Romans 14:14

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.

Acts 10:1–48

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

Isaiah 11:6–9

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 →

1 Corinthians 8:13

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

Romans 14:17

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

Romans 14:3

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.

Isaiah 66:3

He who kills an ox is as he who kills a man; he who sacrifices a lamb, as he who breaks a dog’s neck; he who offers an offering, as he who offers pig’s blood; he who burns frankincense, as he who blesses an idol. Yes, they have chosen their own ways, and their soul delights in their abominations:

Leviticus 19:26

“‘You shall not eat any meat with the blood still in it; neither shall you use enchantments, nor practice sorcery.

Genesis 8:20

Noah built an altar to Yahweh, and took of every clean animal, and of every clean bird, and offered burnt offerings on the altar.

Genesis 9:3–4

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

Genesis 1:29–30

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 →

1 John 3:4

Everyone who sins also commits lawlessness. Sin is lawlessness.

1 Corinthians 10:25

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

1 Corinthians 10:23–25

“All things are lawful for me,” but not all things are profitable. “All things are lawful for me,” but not all things build up. — read the full passage →

Romans 14:14–23

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. — read the full passage →

Romans 14:14–21

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. — read the full passage →

Romans 14:1–4

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

Acts 17:10–11

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 →

Acts 11:18

When they heard these things, they held their peace, and glorified God, saying, “Then God has also granted to the Gentiles repentance to life!”

Acts 10:14

But Peter said, “Not so, Lord; for I have never eaten anything that is common or unclean.”

Luke 24:30

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

Mark 7:19

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

Mark 7:18–23

He said to them, “Are you thus without understanding also? Don’t you perceive that whatever goes into the man from outside can’t defile him, — read the full passage →

Mark 7:14–23

He called all the multitude to himself, and said to them, “Hear me, all of you, and understand. — read the full passage →

Mark 7:1–37

Then the Pharisees, and some of the scribes gathered together to him, having come from Jerusalem. — read the full passage →

Matthew 15:17–20

Don’t you understand that whatever goes into the mouth passes into the belly, and then out of the body? — read the full passage →

Matthew 15:10–11

He summoned the multitude, and said to them, “Hear, and understand. — read the full passage →

Daniel 1:8–16

But Daniel purposed in his heart that he would not defile himself with the king’s dainties, nor with the wine which he drank: therefore he requested of the prince of the eunuchs that he might not defile himself. — read the full passage →

Deuteronomy 12:20–21

When Yahweh your God enlarges your border, as he has promised you, and you shall say, “I want to eat meat,” because your soul desires to eat meat; you may eat meat, after all the desire of your soul. — read the full passage →

Leviticus 22:8

That which dies of itself, or is torn by animals, he shall not eat, defiling himself by it. I am Yahweh.

Leviticus 19:2

“Speak to all the congregation of the children of Israel, and tell them, ‘You shall be holy; for I, Yahweh your God, am holy.

Leviticus 17:10

“‘Any man of the house of Israel, or of the strangers who live as foreigners among them, who eats any kind of blood, I will set my face against that soul who eats blood, and will cut him off from among his people.

Leviticus 17:10–14

“‘Any man of the house of Israel, or of the strangers who live as foreigners among them, who eats any kind of blood, I will set my face against that soul who eats blood, and will cut him off from among his people. — read the full passage →

Leviticus 11:1–40

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

Leviticus 7:23–27

“Speak to the children of Israel, saying, ‘You shall eat no fat, of bull, or sheep, or goat. — read the full passage →

Hebrews 13:8

Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever.

1 Timothy 4:5

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

1 Timothy 4:3

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

1 Timothy 4:1

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,

Colossians 2:16–17

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, — read the full passage →

1 Corinthians 10:31

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

Romans 14:4

Who are you who judge another’s servant? To his own lord he stands or falls. Yes, he will be made to stand, for God has power to make him stand.

Romans 8:7

because the mind of the flesh is hostile towards God; for it is not subject to God’s law, neither indeed can it be.

Acts 15:29

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.”

Acts 15:20

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

Mark 7:1–23

Then the Pharisees, and some of the scribes gathered together to him, having come from Jerusalem. — read the full passage →

Matthew 15:17

Don’t you understand that whatever goes into the mouth passes into the belly, and then out of the body?

Malachi 3:6

“For I, Yahweh, don’t change; therefore you, sons of Jacob, are not consumed.

Daniel 1:12

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

Daniel 1:1–21

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 →

Isaiah 65:2–4

I have spread out my hands all the day to a rebellious people, who walk in a way that is not good, after their own thoughts; — read the full passage →

Proverbs 23:20–21

Don’t be among ones drinking too much wine, or those who gorge themselves on meat: — read the full passage →

Deuteronomy 14:21

You shall not eat of anything that dies of itself. You may give it to the foreigner living among you who is within your gates, that he may eat it; or you may sell it to a foreigner; for you are a holy people to Yahweh your God. You shall not boil a young goat in its mother’s milk.

Deuteronomy 14:3–20

You shall not eat any abominable thing. — read the full passage →

Leviticus 3:17

“‘It shall be a perpetual statute throughout your generations in all your dwellings, that you shall eat neither fat nor blood.’”

Genesis 9:1–3

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

Genesis 7:2

You shall take seven pairs of every clean animal with you, the male and his female. Of the animals that are not clean, take two, the male and his female.

Genesis 1:29–31

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 →

Revelation 1:1–20

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 →

James 1:17

Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom can be no variation, nor turning shadow.

2 Timothy 3:16

Every Scripture is God-breathed and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for instruction in righteousness,

Colossians 2:20–23

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 →

Ephesians 1:4

even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we would be holy and without defect before him in love;

1 Corinthians 8:7

However, that knowledge isn’t in all men. But some, with consciousness of the idol until now, eat as of a thing sacrificed to an idol, and their conscience, being weak, is defiled.

1 Corinthians 8:4–7

Therefore concerning the eating of things sacrificed to idols, we know that no idol is anything in the world, and that there is no other God but one. — read the full passage →

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