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Eat Flesh
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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 →
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. — read the full passage →
“‘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 →
It is good to not eat meat, drink wine, nor do anything by which your brother stumbles, is offended, or is made weak.
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 →
but that we write to them that they abstain from the pollution of idols, from sexual immorality, from what is strangled, and from blood.
You shall not eat any blood, whether it is of bird or of animal, in any of your dwellings. — read the full passage →
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 →
Therefore if food causes my brother to stumble, I will eat no meat forever more, that I don’t cause my brother to stumble.
Yahweh spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying to them, — read the full passage →
“‘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 →
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.
“Those who sanctify themselves and purify themselves to go to the gardens, behind one in the midst, eating pig’s flesh, and the abomination, and the mouse, they shall come to an end together,” says Yahweh.
Most certainly, I tell you, he who believes in me has eternal life. — 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.”
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 →
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 →
“‘You shall not eat any meat with the blood still in it; neither shall you use enchantments, nor practice sorcery.
But flesh with its life, that is, its blood, you shall not eat.
For my flesh is food indeed, and my blood is drink indeed. — read the full passage →
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. — read the full passage →
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 →
Whether therefore you eat, or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.
This is the bread which comes down out of heaven, that anyone may eat of it and not die. — read the full passage →
“Speak to the children of Israel, saying, ‘You shall eat no fat, of bull, or sheep, or goat. — read the full passage →
One man has faith to eat all things, but he who is weak eats only vegetables. — read the full passage →
“Therefore my judgment is that we don’t trouble those from among the Gentiles who turn to God, — read the full passage →
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.” — read the full passage →
You shall not eat any abominable thing. — read the full passage →
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.
“‘It shall be a perpetual statute throughout your generations in all your dwellings, that you shall eat neither fat nor blood.’”
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,
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. — read the full passage →
A voice came to him, “Rise, Peter, kill and eat!” — read the full passage →
Therefore many of his disciples, when they heard this, said, “This is a hard saying! Who can listen to it?” — read the full passage →
I am the living bread which came down out of heaven. If anyone eats of this bread, he will live forever. Yes, the bread which I will give for the life of the world is my flesh.” — read the full passage →
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.”
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:
Melchizedek king of Salem brought out bread and wine: and he was priest of God Most High.
Every moving thing that lives will be food for you. As I gave you the green herb, I have given everything to you.
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.
At this, many of his disciples went back, and walked no more with him. — 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. — read the full passage →
Don’t you understand that whatever goes into the mouth passes into the belly, and then out of the body? — read the full passage →
That which enters into the mouth doesn’t defile the man; but that which proceeds out of the mouth, this defiles the man.”
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.
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.”
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 →
for the Kingdom of God is not eating and drinking, but righteousness, peace, and joy in the Holy Spirit.
Therefore whoever eats this bread or drinks the Lord’s cup in a way unworthy of the Lord will be guilty of the body and the blood of the Lord. — read the full passage →
My spirit has rejoiced in God my Savior, — read the full passage →
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.”
I saw an angel standing in the sun. He cried with a loud voice, saying to all the birds that fly in the sky, “Come! Be gathered together to the great supper of God, — read the full passage →
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 →
Now I say this, brothers, that flesh and blood can’t inherit the Kingdom of God; neither does the perishable inherit imperishable.
For as often as you eat this bread and drink this cup, you proclaim the Lord’s death until he comes.
Be imitators of me, even as I also am of Christ. — read the full passage →
I speak as to wise men. Judge what I say. — read the full passage →
But I desire to have you to be free from cares. He who is unmarried is concerned for the things of the Lord, how he may please the Lord; — read the full passage →
He became hungry and desired to eat, but while they were preparing, he fell into a trance. — read the full passage →
and the people flew on the plunder, and took sheep, and cattle, and calves, and killed them on the ground; and the people ate them with the blood. — read the full passage →
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. — read the full passage →
For I received from the Lord that which also I delivered to you, that the Lord Jesus on the night in which he was betrayed took bread. — read the full passage →
But to the married I command—not I, but the Lord—that the wife not leave her husband — read the full passage →
Pray like this: ‘Our Father in heaven, may your name be kept holy. — 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.
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 →
Purge out the old yeast, that you may be a new lump, even as you are unleavened. For indeed Christ, our Passover, has been sacrificed in our place.
Wine is a mocker, and beer is a brawler. Whoever is led astray by them is not wise.
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. — read the full passage →
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.” — read the full passage →
God blessed Noah and his sons, and said to them, “Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth.
that you may eat the flesh of kings, the flesh of captains, the flesh of mighty men, and the flesh of horses and of those who sit on them, and the flesh of all men, both free and slave, and small and great.”
In the same way, wasn’t Rahab the prostitute also justified by works, in that she received the messengers, and sent them out another way? — read the full passage →
But do you want to know, vain man, that faith apart from works is dead? — 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.
But if anyone doesn’t provide for his own, and especially his own household, he has denied the faith, and is worse than an unbeliever.
These things I write to you, hoping to come to you shortly; — read the full passage →
“Don’t handle, nor taste, nor touch”
whose end is destruction, whose god is the belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who think about earthly things.
But if you bite and devour one another, be careful that you don’t consume one another.
Having therefore these promises, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all defilement of flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.
All flesh is not the same flesh, but there is one flesh of men, another flesh of animals, another of fish, and another of birds.
If I speak with the languages of men and of angels, but don’t have love, I have become sounding brass, or a clanging cymbal. — read the full passage →
For I received from the Lord that which also I delivered to you, that the Lord Jesus on the night in which he was betrayed took bread. — read the full passage →
“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 →
“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 →
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. — read the full passage →
But as it is, I wrote to you not to associate with anyone who is called a brother who is a sexual sinner, or covetous, or an idolater, or a slanderer, or a drunkard, or an extortionist. Don’t even eat with such a person.
Brothers, I couldn’t speak to you as to spiritual, but as to fleshly, as to babies in Christ. — read the full passage →
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 →
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 →
As they went on the way, they came to some water, and the eunuch said, “Behold, here is water. What is keeping me from being baptized?” — read the full passage →
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 →
The Jews therefore contended with one another, saying, “How can this man give us his flesh to eat?” — read the full passage →
I am the living bread which came down out of heaven. If anyone eats of this bread, he will live forever. Yes, the bread which I will give for the life of the world is my flesh.”
The third day, there was a marriage in Cana of Galilee. Jesus’ mother was there. — read the full passage →
for he has looked at the humble state of his handmaid. For behold, from now on, all generations will call me blessed.
Don’t you understand that whatever goes into the mouth passes into the belly, and then out of the body?
who also eat the flesh of my people, and flay their skin from off them, and break their bones, and chop them in pieces, as for the pot, and as flesh within the cauldron.
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