Eating Red Meat

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

For every creature of God is good, and nothing is to be rejected, if it is received with thanksgiving. — read the full passage →

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

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.”

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

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 →

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

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

envyings, murders, drunkenness, orgies, and things like these; of which I forewarn you, even as I also forewarned you, that those who practice such things will not inherit the Kingdom of God.

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

Now accept one who is weak in faith, but not for disputes over opinions.

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

Therefore I urge you, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service. — read the full passage →

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,

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

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 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.

For Christ is the fulfillment of the law for righteousness to everyone who believes.

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

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,

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.

He who observes the day, observes it to the Lord; and he who does not observe the day, to the Lord he does not observe it. He who eats, eats to the Lord, for he gives God thanks. He who doesn’t eat, to the Lord he doesn’t eat, and gives God thanks.

One man esteems one day as more important. Another esteems every day alike. Let each man be fully assured in his own mind.

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,

Be therefore imitators of God, as beloved children. — read the full passage →

For if a man sees you who have knowledge sitting in an idol’s temple, won’t his conscience, if he is weak, be emboldened to eat things sacrificed to idols?

But he who doubts is condemned if he eats, because it isn’t of faith; and whatever is not of faith is sin. Now to him who is able to establish you according to my Good News and the preaching of Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the mystery which has been kept secret through long ages, but now is revealed, and by the Scriptures of the prophets, according to the commandment of the eternal God, is made known for obedience of faith to all the nations; to the only wise God, through Jesus Christ, to whom be the glory forever! Amen.

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.

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

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,

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

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

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 →

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.

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

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

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 →

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

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; — read the full passage →

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

Therefore let’s not judge one another any more, but judge this rather, that no man put a stumbling block in his brother’s way, or an occasion for falling.

For if we live, we live to the Lord. Or if we die, we die to the Lord. If therefore we live or die, we are the Lord’s.

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.

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

through the hypocrisy of men who speak lies, branded in their own conscience as with a hot iron;

Masters, give to your servants that which is just and equal, knowing that you also have a Master in heaven. — read the full passage →

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

For I desire to have you know how greatly I struggle for you, and for those at Laodicea, and for as many as have not seen my face in the flesh; — read the full passage →

But if anyone says to you, “This was offered to idols,” don’t eat it for the sake of the one who told you, and for the sake of conscience. For “the earth is the Lord’s, and all its fullness.”

Do you have faith? Have it to yourself before God. Happy is he who doesn’t judge himself in that which he approves.

So then, let us follow after things which make for peace, and things by which we may build one another up.

For he who serves Christ in these things is acceptable to God and approved by men.