Drinking Blood

For the life of the flesh is in the blood; and I have given it to you on the altar to make atonement for your souls: for it is the blood that makes atonement by reason of the life.

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

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 →

But flesh with its life, that is, its blood, you shall not eat.

For as to the life of all flesh, its blood is with its life: therefore I said to the children of Israel, “You shall not eat the blood of any kind of flesh; for the life of all flesh is its blood. Whoever eats it shall be cut off.”

According to the law, nearly everything is cleansed with blood, and apart from shedding of blood there is no remission.

“‘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.

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.”

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,

Jesus therefore said to them, “Most certainly I tell you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you don’t have life in yourselves.

Only be sure that you don’t eat the blood; for the blood is the life. You shall not eat the life with the flesh.

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

But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus Christ, his Son, cleanses us from all sin.

in whom we have our redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of his grace,

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 →

Likewise, he took the cup after supper, saying, “This cup is the new covenant in my blood, which is poured out for you.

for this is my blood of the new covenant, which is poured out for many for the remission of sins.

Only you shall not eat the blood. You shall pour it out on the earth like water.

You shall not eat any blood, whether it is of bird or of animal, in any of your dwellings.

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

They overcame him because of the Lamb’s blood, and because of the word of their testimony. They didn’t love their life, even to death.

Having therefore, brothers, boldness to enter into the holy place by the blood of Jesus,

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

Therefore Jesus also, that he might sanctify the people through his own blood, suffered outside of the gate.

For they poured out the blood of the saints and the prophets, and you have given them blood to drink. They deserve this.”

“‘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 →

how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without defect to God, cleanse your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?

But concerning the Gentiles who believe, we have written our decision that they should observe no such thing, except that they should keep themselves from food offered to idols, from blood, from strangled things, and from sexual immorality.”

and from Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead, and the ruler of the kings of the earth. To him who loves us, and washed us from our sins by his blood;

Much more then, being now justified by his blood, we will be saved from God’s wrath through him.

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 →

He who eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day.

Therefore I have said to the children of Israel, “No person among you shall eat blood, neither shall any stranger who lives as a foreigner among you eat blood.”

Whoever sheds man’s blood, his blood will be shed by man, for God made man in his own image.

and through him to reconcile all things to himself, by him, whether things on the earth, or things in the heavens, having made peace through the blood of his cross.

But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far off are made near in the blood of Christ.

knowing that you were redeemed, not with corruptible things, with silver or gold, from the useless way of life handed down from your fathers, — read the full passage →

Therefore tell them, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: You eat with the blood, and lift up your eyes to your idols, and shed blood: and shall you possess the land?

This is to the end that the children of Israel may bring their sacrifices, which they sacrifice in the open field, that they may bring them to Yahweh, to the door of the Tent of Meeting, to the priest, and sacrifice them for sacrifices of peace offerings to Yahweh.

“Speak to Aaron, and to his sons, and to all the children of Israel, and say to them: ‘This is the thing which Yahweh has commanded,

Take heed, therefore, to yourselves, and to all the flock, in which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, to shepherd the assembly of the Lord and God which he purchased with his own blood.

For my flesh is food indeed, and my blood is drink indeed.

and hasn’t brought it to the door of the Tent of Meeting, to offer it as an offering to Yahweh before Yahweh’s tabernacle: blood shall be imputed to that man. He has shed blood; and that man shall be cut off from among his people.

Whatever man there is of the house of Israel, who kills a bull, or lamb, or goat, in the camp, or who kills it outside the camp,

You shall not eat any blood, whether it is of bird or of animal, in any of your dwellings. — read the full passage →

for true and righteous are his judgments. For he has judged the great prostitute, who corrupted the earth with her sexual immorality, and he has avenged the blood of his servants at her hand.”

I told him, “My lord, you know.” He said to me, “These are those who came out of the great tribulation. They washed their robes, and made them white in the Lamb’s blood.

You had no pleasure in whole burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin. — read the full passage →

When he had given thanks, he broke it, and said, “Take, eat. This is my body, which is broken for you. Do this in memory of me.” — read the full passage →

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

As they were eating, Jesus took bread, gave thanks for it, and broke it. He gave to the disciples, and said, “Take, eat; this is my body.”

The blood shall be to you for a token on the houses where you are: and when I see the blood, I will pass over you, and there shall no plague be on you to destroy you, when I strike the land of Egypt.

This is he who came by water and blood, Jesus Christ; not with the water only, but with the water and the blood. It is the Spirit who testifies, because the Spirit is the truth.

For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life. — read the full passage →

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.

whom God sent to be an atoning sacrifice, through faith in his blood, for a demonstration of his righteousness through the passing over of prior sins, in God’s forbearance;

Don’t work for the food which perishes, but for the food which remains to eternal life, which the Son of Man will give to you. For God the Father has sealed him.”

They shall no more sacrifice their sacrifices to the goat idols, after which they play the prostitute. This shall be a statute forever to them throughout their generations.’

It is the spirit who gives life. The flesh profits nothing. The words that I speak to you are spirit, and are life.

He took the cup, gave thanks, and gave to them, saying, “All of you drink it, — read the full passage →

Only you shall not eat its blood. You shall pour it out on the ground like water.

The priest shall sprinkle the blood on the altar of Yahweh at the door of the Tent of Meeting, and burn the fat for a pleasant aroma to Yahweh.

I saw the woman drunken with the blood of the saints, and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus. When I saw her, I wondered with great amazement.

For as in those days which were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noah entered into the ship,

“‘Whatever man there is of the children of Israel, or of the strangers who live as foreigners among them, who takes in hunting any animal or bird that may be eaten; he shall pour out its blood, and cover it with dust.

and doesn’t bring it to the door of the Tent of Meeting, to sacrifice it to Yahweh; that man shall be cut off from his people.

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

but with precious blood, as of a faultless and pure lamb, the blood of Christ;

How much worse punishment, do you think, will he be judged worthy of, who has trodden under foot the Son of God, and has counted the blood of the covenant with which he was sanctified an unholy thing, and has insulted the Spirit of grace?

being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus; — 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.

Jesus therefore said to them, “Most certainly I tell you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you don’t have life in yourselves. — read the full passage →

Go your way—eat your bread with joy, and drink your wine with a merry heart; for God has already accepted your works.

He shall lay his hand on the head of his offering, and kill it at the door of the Tent of Meeting: and Aaron’s sons, the priests, shall sprinkle the blood around on the altar.

Jesus therefore said to them, “Most certainly I tell you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you don’t have life in yourselves. — read the full passage →

“You shall not murder.

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.

For it is impossible that the blood of bulls and goats should take away sins.

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

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.

God said, “This is the token of the covenant which I make between me and you and every living creature that is with you, for perpetual generations:

The ten horns which you saw, and the beast, these will hate the prostitute, and will make her desolate, and will make her naked, and will eat her flesh, and will burn her utterly with fire.

Everyone who sins also commits lawlessness. Sin is lawlessness.

For if the blood of goats and bulls, and the ashes of a heifer sprinkling those who have been defiled, sanctify to the cleanness of the flesh: — read the full passage →

Behold, I, Paul, tell you that if you receive circumcision, Christ will profit you nothing.

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

By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”

For I testify about them that they have a zeal for God, but not according to knowledge.

Yahweh said, “What have you done? The voice of your brother’s blood cries to me from the ground.

Jesus said to them, “I am the bread of life. He who comes to me will not be hungry, and he who believes in me will never be thirsty.

nor yet through the blood of goats and calves, but through his own blood, entered in once for all into the Holy Place, having obtained eternal redemption.

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

No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him, and I will raise him up in the last day.

He who eats my flesh and drinks my blood lives in me, and I in him.

“‘Every person that eats what dies of itself, or that which is torn by animals, whether he is native-born or a foreigner, he shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the evening: then he shall be clean.

Yahweh said to Moses, — read the full passage →

For a tabernacle was prepared. In the first part were the lamp stand, the table, and the show bread; which is called the Holy Place.

Yahweh spoke to Moses, after the death of the two sons of Aaron, when they drew near before Yahweh, and died; — read the full passage →

Beloved, now we are children of God, and it is not yet revealed what we will be. But we know that, when he is revealed, we will be like him; for we will see him just as he is.

but whoever drinks of the water that I will give him will never thirst again; but the water that I will give him will become in him a well of water springing up to eternal life.”