Eating

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

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.

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

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

Therefore I tell you, don’t be anxious for your life: what you will eat, or what you will drink; nor yet for your body, what you will wear. Isn’t life more than food, and the body more than clothing?

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.

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

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

But he answered, “It is written, ‘Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds out of the mouth of God.’”

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.

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

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

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, — read the full passage →

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

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.”

It is not good to eat much honey; nor is it honorable to seek one’s own honor.

Have you found honey? Eat as much as is sufficient for you, lest you eat too much, and vomit it.

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

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

He humbled you, and allowed you to be hungry, and fed you with manna, which you didn’t know, neither did your fathers know; that he might teach you that man does not live by bread only, but man lives by every word that proceeds out of Yahweh’s mouth.

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.

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

Blessed are those who hunger and thirst after righteousness, for they shall be filled.

Happy are you, land, when your king is the son of nobles, and your princes eat in due season, for strength, and not for drunkenness!

I know that there is nothing better for them than to rejoice, and to do good as long as they live. — read the full passage →

Who gives food to every creature; for his loving kindness endures forever.

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,

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.”

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

He took butter, milk, and the calf which he had dressed, and set it before them. He stood by them under the tree, and they ate.

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 →

Then he said to them, “Go your way. Eat the fat, drink the sweet, and send portions to him for whom nothing is prepared; for this day is holy to our Lord. Don’t be grieved; for the joy of Yahweh is your strength.”

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

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

but I beat my body and bring it into submission, lest by any means, after I have preached to others, I myself should be rejected.

“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.

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

Also that every man should eat and drink, and enjoy good in all his labor, is the gift of God.

“I have heard the murmurings of the children of Israel. Speak to them, saying, ‘At evening you shall eat meat, and in the morning you shall be filled with bread: and you shall know that I am Yahweh your God.’”

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 →

For he who eats and drinks in an unworthy way eats and drinks judgment to himself, if he doesn’t discern the Lord’s body.

“All things are lawful for me,” but not all things are profitable. “All things are lawful for me,” but not all things build up.

He said to his disciples, “Therefore I tell you, don’t be anxious for your life, what you will eat, nor yet for your body, what you will wear. — read the full passage →

For everything spoken by God is possible.”

for the drunkard and the glutton shall become poor; and drowsiness clothes them in rags.

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.

as newborn babies, long for the pure milk of the Word, that with it you may grow,

No temptation has taken you except what is common to man. God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted above what you are able, but will with the temptation also make the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it.

But seek first God’s Kingdom, and his righteousness; and all these things will be given to you as well.

Why do you spend money for that which is not bread? and your labor for that which doesn’t satisfy? listen diligently to me, and eat you that which is good, and let your soul delight itself in fatness.

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 →

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 →

Now may he who supplies seed to the sower and bread for food, supply and multiply your seed for sowing, and increase the fruits of your righteousness;

Pleasant words are a honeycomb, sweet to the soul, and health to the bones.

Day by day, continuing steadfastly with one accord in the temple, and breaking bread at home, they took their food with gladness and singleness of heart, — read the full passage →

He took the five loaves and the two fish, and looking up to the sky, he blessed them, and broke them, and gave them to the disciples to set before the multitude. — read the full passage →

I ate no pleasant bread, neither came flesh nor wine into my mouth, neither did I anoint myself at all, until three whole weeks were fulfilled.

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.

Remove far from me falsehood and lies. Give me neither poverty nor riches. Feed me with the food that is needful for me;

I know how to be humbled, and I know also how to abound. In everything and in all things I have learned the secret both to be filled and to be hungry, both to abound and to be in need.

Every man also to whom God has given riches and wealth, and has given him power to eat of it, and to take his portion, and to rejoice in his labor—this is the gift of God.

For he satisfies the longing soul. He fills the hungry soul with good.

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.”

Now on the last and greatest day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried out, “If anyone is thirsty, let him come to me and drink!

Putting away therefore all wickedness, all deceit, hypocrisies, envies, and all evil speaking, — read the full passage →

For we brought nothing into the world, and we certainly can’t carry anything out. — read the full passage →

As the living Father sent me, and I live because of the Father; so he who feeds on me, he will also live because of me.

Therefore when you do merciful deeds, don’t sound a trumpet before yourself, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may get glory from men. Most certainly I tell you, they have received their reward.

These you may eat of all that are in the waters: whatever has fins and scales may you eat. — read the full passage →

You shall not eat any abominable thing. — 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,

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.

Suddenly there came from the sky a sound like the rushing of a mighty wind, and it filled all the house where they were sitting.

Bring the whole tithe into the storehouse, that there may be food in my house, and test me now in this,” says Yahweh of Armies, “if I will not open you the windows of heaven, and pour you out a blessing, that there shall not be room enough for.

The plans of the heart belong to man, but the answer of the tongue is from Yahweh. — read the full passage →

But be doers of the word, and not only hearers, deluding your own selves. — read the full passage →

Those who have believing masters, let them not despise them, because they are brothers, but rather let them serve them, because those who partake of the benefit are believing and beloved. Teach and exhort these things.

The liberal soul shall be made fat. He who waters shall be watered also himself.

A false balance is an abomination to Yahweh, but accurate weights are his delight. — read the full passage →

Give thanks to Yahweh, for he is good, for his loving kindness endures forever. — read the full passage →

I haven’t gone back from the commandment of his lips. I have treasured up the words of his mouth more than my necessary food.

All the people gathered themselves together as one man into the broad place that was before the water gate; and they spoke to Ezra the scribe to bring the book of the law of Moses, which Yahweh had commanded to Israel. — read the full passage →

“Why do your disciples disobey the tradition of the elders? For they don’t wash their hands when they eat bread.”

“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. — read the full passage →

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.

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

But there is nothing covered up, that will not be revealed, nor hidden, that will not be known.

But when you do merciful deeds, don’t let your left hand know what your right hand does,

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

A voice came to him again the second time, “What God has cleansed, you must not call unclean.”

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 →

Meanwhile, when a multitude of many thousands had gathered together, so much so that they trampled on each other, he began to tell his disciples first of all, “Beware of the yeast of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy. — read the full passage →

He opened his mouth and taught them, saying,

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. — read the full passage →

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

The thief only comes to steal, kill, and destroy. I came that they may have life, and may have it abundantly.

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 →

To every animal of the earth, and to every bird of the sky, and to everything that creeps on the earth, in which there is life, I have given every green herb for food;” and it was so.

Who lie on beds of ivory, and stretch themselves on their couches, and eat the lambs out of the flock, and the calves out of the midst of the stall;