Eating In Church

why, have ye not houses to eat and to drink in? or the assembly of God do ye despise, and shame those not having? what may I say to you? shall I praise you in this? I do not praise!

and if any one is hungry, at home let him eat, that to judgment ye may not come together; and the rest, whenever I may come, I shall arrange.

Whether, then, ye eat, or drink, or do anything, do all to the glory of God;

ye, then, coming together at the same place--it is not to eat the Lord's supper;

for the reign of God is not eating and drinking, but righteousness, and peace, and joy in the Holy Spirit; — read the full passage →

for my flesh truly is food, and my blood truly is drink; — read the full passage →

And him who is weak in the faith receive ye--not to determinations of reasonings; — read the full passage →

And God saith, `Lo, I have given to you every herb sowing seed, which <FI>is<Fi> upon the face of all the earth, and every tree in which <FI>is<Fi> the fruit of a tree sowing seed, to you it is for food;

work not for the food that is perishing, but for the food that is remaining to life age-during, which the Son of Man will give to you, for him did the Father seal--<FI> even<Fi> God.'

Every creeping thing that is alive, to you it is for food; as the green herb I have given to you the whole;

But he answering said, `It hath been written, Not upon bread alone doth man live, but upon every word coming forth from the mouth of God.'

Paul, a called apostle of Jesus Christ, through the will of God, and Sosthenes the brother, — read the full passage →

And Jesus said to them, `I am the bread of the life; he who is coming unto me may not hunger, and he who is believing in me may not thirst--at any time;

`Because of this I say to you, be not anxious for your life, what ye may eat, and what ye may drink, nor for your body, what ye may put on. Is not the life more than the nourishment, and the body than the clothing?

A revelation of Jesus Christ, that God gave to him, to shew to his servants what things it behoveth to come to pass quickly; and he did signify <FI>it<Fi> , having sent through his messenger to his servant John,

for God did so love the world, that His Son--the only begotten--He gave, that every one who is believing in him may not perish, but may have life age-during.

but seek ye first the reign of God and His righteousness, and all these shall be added to you.

`Happy those hungering and thirsting for righteousness--because they shall be filled.

The eating of much honey is not good, Nor a searching out of one's own honour--honour.

Honey thou hast found--eat thy sufficiency, Lest thou be satiated <FI>with<Fi> it, and hast vomited it.

But victuals do not commend us to God, for neither if we may eat are we in advance; nor if we may not eat, are we behind;

And certain having come down from Judea, were teaching the brethren--`If ye be not circumcised after the custom of Moses, ye are not able to be saved;' — read the full passage →

and they were continuing stedfastly in the teaching of the apostles, and the fellowship, and the breaking of the bread, and the prayers.

because nothing shall be impossible with God.'

lo, I have stood at the door, and I knock; if any one may hear my voice, and may open the door, I will come in unto him, and will sup with him, and he with me.

and may we consider one another to provoke to love and to good works, — read the full passage →

but I chastise my body, and bring <FI>it<Fi> into servitude, lest by any means, having preached to others--I myself may become disapproved.

`I have heard the murmurings of the sons of Israel; speak unto them, saying, Between the evenings ye eat flesh, and in the morning ye are satisfied <FI>with<Fi> bread, and ye have known that I <FI>am<Fi> Jehovah your God.'

the meats <FI>are<Fi> for the belly, and the belly for the meats. And God both this and these shall make useless; and the body <FI>is<Fi> not for whoredom, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body;

All things are lawful to me, but all things are not profitable; all things are lawful to me, but I--I will not be under authority by any;

Daily also continuing with one accord in the temple, breaking also at every house bread, they were partaking of food in gladness and simplicity of heart,

yea, even every man who eateth and hath drunk and seen good by all his labour, it <FI>is<Fi> a gift of God.

Giving food to all flesh, For to the age <FI>is<Fi> His kindness.

as new-born babes the word's pure milk desire ye, that in it ye may grow,

for the sake of victuals cast not down the work of God; all things, indeed, <FI>are<Fi> pure, but evil <FI>is<Fi> to the man who is eating through stumbling.

for God did so love the world, that His Son--the only begotten--He gave, that every one who is believing in him may not perish, but may have life age-during. — read the full passage →

for where there are two or three gathered together--to my name, there am I in the midst of them.'

and become ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves, — read the full passage →

The masters! that which is righteous and equal to the servants give ye, having known that ye also have a Master in the heavens. — read the full passage →

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

For I wish you to know how great a conflict I have for you and those in Laodicea, and as many as have not seen my face in the flesh, — read the full passage →

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

wherefore, if victuals cause my brother to stumble, I may eat no flesh--to the age--that my brother I may not cause to stumble.

Have ye not known that your body is a sanctuary of the Holy Spirit in you, which ye have from God? and ye are not your own, — read the full passage →

Brethren, the pleasure indeed of my heart, and my supplication that <FI>is<Fi> to God for Israel, is--for salvation; — read the full passage →

`Take heed, therefore, to yourselves, and to all the flock, among which the Holy Spirit made you overseers, to feed the assembly of God that He acquired through His own blood,

the Son of Man came eating and drinking, and ye say, Lo, a man, a glutton, and a wine drinker, a friend of tax-gatherers and sinners;

the Son of Man came eating and drinking, and they say, Lo, a man, a glutton, and a wine-drinker, a friend of tax-gatherers and sinners, and wisdom was justified of her children.'

beloved, concerning all things I desire thee to prosper, and to be in health, even as thy soul doth prosper,

for God did not give us a spirit of fear, but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind;

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

Go, eat with joy thy bread, and drink with a glad heart thy wine, for already hath God been pleased with thy works.

And thou hast put a knife to thy throat, If thou <FI>art<Fi> a man of appetite.

Daily also continuing with one accord in the temple, breaking also at every house bread, they were partaking of food in gladness and simplicity of heart, — read the full passage →

so let your light shine before men, that they may see your good works, and may glorify your Father who <FI>is<Fi> in the heavens.

A revelation of Jesus Christ, that God gave to him, to shew to his servants what things it behoveth to come to pass quickly; and he did signify <FI>it<Fi> , having sent through his messenger to his servant John, — read the full passage →

because every creature of God <FI>is<Fi> good, and nothing <FI>is<Fi> to be rejected, with thanksgiving being received,

Salute you do the assemblies of Asia; salute you much in the Lord do Aquilas and Priscilla, with the assembly in their house;

for each his own supper doth take before in the eating, and one is hungry, and another is drunk;

one doth believe that he may eat all things--and he who is weak doth eat herbs;

and Peter said unto them, `Reform, and be baptized each of you on the name of Jesus Christ, to remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit,

`Verily, verily, I say to you, He who is believing in me, hath life age-during; — read the full passage →

And again he began to teach by the sea, and there was gathered unto him a great multitude, so that he, having gone into the boat, sat in the sea, and all the multitude was near the sea, on the land, — read the full passage →

And he entered again into the synagogue, and there was there a man having the hand withered, — read the full passage →

And again he entered into Capernaum, after <FI>some<Fi> days, and it was heard that he is in the house, — read the full passage →

Sayings of pleasantness <FI>are<Fi> a honeycomb, Sweet to the soul, and healing to the bone.

The eyes of all unto Thee do look, And Thou art giving to them their food in its season,

Seek ye Jehovah and His strength, Seek His face continually.

Let no one, then, judge you in eating or in drinking, or in respect of a feast, or of a new moon, or of sabbaths,

For all things I have strength, in Christ's strengthening me;

ye, then, coming together at the same place--it is not to eat the Lord's supper; — read the full passage →

And I praise you, brethren, that in all things ye remember me, and according as I did deliver to you, the deliverances ye keep,

Whatever in the meat-market is sold eat ye, not inquiring, because of the conscience,

All things are lawful to me, but all things are not profitable; all things are lawful to me, but I--I will not be under authority by any; — read the full passage →

because of this I sent to you Timotheus, who is my child, beloved and faithful in the Lord, who shall remind you of my ways in Christ, according as everywhere in every assembly I teach.

let not him who is eating despise him who is not eating: and let not him who is not eating judge him who is eating, for God did receive him.

Jesus saith to him, `I am the way, and the truth, and the life, no one doth come unto the Father, if not through me;

many, therefore, of his disciples having heard, said, `This word is hard; who is able to hear it?' — read the full passage →

`I am the living bread that came down out of the heaven; if any one may eat of this bread he shall live--to the age; and the bread also that I will give is my flesh, that I will give for the life of the world.'

`And if that servant may say in his heart, My lord doth delay to come, and may begin to beat the men-servants and the maid-servants, to eat also, and to drink, and to be drunken;

for as they were, in the days before the flood, eating, and drinking, marrying, and giving in marriage, till the day Noah entered into the ark,

`And I also say to thee, that thou art a rock, and upon this rock I will build my assembly, and gates of Hades shall not prevail against it;

And lo, joy and gladness, slaying of oxen, And slaughtering of sheep, Eating of flesh, and drinking of wine, Eat and drink, for to-morrow we die.

And he bringeth him down, and lo, they are spread out over the face of all the earth, eating, and drinking, and feasting, with all the great spoil which they have taken out of the land of the Philistines, and out of the land of Judah.

not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as a custom of certain <FI>is<Fi> , but exhorting, and so much the more as ye see the day coming nigh.

forbidding to marry--to abstain from meats that God created to be received with thanksgiving by those believing and acknowledging the truth, — read the full passage →

Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly, in all wisdom, teaching and admonishing each other, in psalms, and hymns, and spiritual songs, in grace singing in your hearts to the Lord;

Let no one, then, judge you in eating or in drinking, or in respect of a feast, or of a new moon, or of sabbaths, — read the full passage →

and walk in love, as also the Christ did love us, and did give himself for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for an odour of a sweet smell,

and may He who is supplying seed to the sower, and bread for food, supply and multiply your seed sown, and increase the fruits of your righteousness,

for also in one Spirit we all to one body were baptized, whether Jews or Greeks, whether servants or freemen, and all into one Spirit were made to drink,

One doth judge one day above another, and another doth judge every day <FI>alike<Fi> ; let each in his own mind be fully assured.

And in the day of the Pentecost being fulfilled, they were all with one accord at the same place, — read the full passage →

`And if he may not hear them, say <FI>it<Fi> to the assembly, and if also the assembly he may not hear, let him be to thee as the heathen man and the tax-gatherer.

desirable bread I have not eaten, and flesh and wine hath not come in unto my mouth, and I have not anointed myself at all, till the completion of three weeks of days.

The righteous is eating to the satiety of his soul, And the belly of the wicked lacketh!

Every creeping thing that is alive, to you it is for food; as the green herb I have given to you the whole; — read the full passage →

and if in the light we may walk, as He is in the light--we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ His Son doth cleanse us from every sin;

and ye yourselves, as living stones, are built up, a spiritual house, a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.

for nothing did we bring into the world--<FI> it is<Fi> manifest that we are able to carry nothing out; — read the full passage →