Eating The Right Foods

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.

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

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

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 →

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.

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

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 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.”

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?

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 →

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

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,

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

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

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

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

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

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,

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.

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

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

Take for yourself also wheat, and barley, and beans, and lentils, and millet, and spelt, and put them in one vessel, and make bread of it; according to the number of the days that you shall lie on your side, even three hundred ninety days, you shall eat of it.

At the end of ten days their faces appeared fairer, and they were fatter in flesh, than all the youths who ate of the king’s dainties.

whose end is destruction, whose god is the belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who think about earthly things.

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.”

Beloved, I pray that you may prosper in all things and be healthy, even as your soul prospers.

“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.

Their father, Israel, said to them, “If it must be so, then do this. Take from the choice fruits of the land in your bags, and carry down a present for the man, a little balm, a little honey, spices and myrrh, nuts, and almonds;

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

Don’t you know that you are a temple of God, and that God’s Spirit lives in you? — 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 →

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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;

For, behold, Yahweh will come with fire, and his chariots shall be like the whirlwind; to render his anger with fierceness, and his rebuke with flames of fire. — read the full passage →

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

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.

Finally, brothers, whatever things are true, whatever things are honorable, whatever things are just, whatever things are pure, whatever things are lovely, whatever things are of good report; if there is any virtue, and if there is any praise, think about these things.

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

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 →

They shall tell the elders of his city, “This our son is stubborn and rebellious. He will not obey our voice. He is a glutton and a drunkard.”

John was clothed with camel’s hair and a leather belt around his waist. He ate locusts and wild honey.

Bring the fattened calf, kill it, and let us eat, and celebrate;

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 →

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

For bodily exercise has some value, but godliness has value in all things, having the promise of the life which is now, and of that which is to come.

In nothing be anxious, but in everything, by prayer and petition with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God. — read the full passage →

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.

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 →

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,

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

throwing down imaginations and every high thing that is exalted against the knowledge of God, and bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ;

These are the animals which you may eat: the ox, the sheep, the goat,

Seek Yahweh and his strength. Seek his face forever more.

They came to the valley of Eshcol, and cut down from there a branch with one cluster of grapes, and they bore it on a staff between two. They also brought some of the pomegranates and figs.

a land of wheat and barley, and vines and fig trees and pomegranates; a land of olive trees and honey;

We remember the fish, which we ate in Egypt for nothing; the cucumbers, and the melons, and the leeks, and the onions, and the garlic;

When the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a delight to the eyes, and that the tree was to be desired to make one wise, she took some of its fruit, and ate; and she gave some to her husband with her, and he ate it, too.

You shall serve Yahweh your God, and he will bless your bread and your water, and I will take sickness away from your midst.

“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 you shall not eat of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil; for in the day that you eat of it, you will surely die.”

When you sit to eat with a ruler, consider diligently what is before you; — read the full passage →

After a while he returned to take her; and he turned aside to see the carcass of the lion: and behold, there was a swarm of bees in the body of the lion, and honey. — read the full passage →

Can that which has no flavor be eaten without salt? Or is there any taste in the white of an egg?

and it shall happen, that because of the abundance of milk which they shall give he shall eat butter: for everyone will eat butter and honey that is left in the midst of the land.

Haven’t you poured me out like milk, and curdled me like cheese?

and he said, “If you will diligently listen to Yahweh your God’s voice, and will do that which is right in his eyes, and will pay attention to his commandments, and keep all his statutes, I will put none of the diseases on you, which I have put on the Egyptians; for I am Yahweh who heals you.”

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 →

Yahweh is my shepherd: I shall lack nothing. — 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.

At meal time Boaz said to her, “Come here, and eat of the bread, and dip your morsel in the vinegar.” She sat beside the reapers, and they reached her parched grain, and she ate, and was satisfied, and left some of it.

Now when they saw some of his disciples eating bread with defiled, that is, unwashed, hands, they found fault.

honey, butter, sheep, and cheese of the herd, for David, and for the people who were with him, to eat: for they said, “The people are hungry, and weary, and thirsty, in the wilderness.”

By the sweat of your face will you eat bread until you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken. For you are dust, and to dust you shall return.”

On the next day, Moses went into the tent of the testimony; and behold, Aaron’s rod for the house of Levi had sprouted, budded, produced blossoms, and bore ripe almonds.

Every offering of your meal offering you shall season with salt; neither shall you allow the salt of the covenant of your God to be lacking from your meal offering. With all your offerings you shall offer salt.

Or if he asks for an egg, he won’t give him a scorpion, will he?

That which they have need of, both young bulls, and rams, and lambs, for burnt offerings to the God of heaven; also wheat, salt, wine, and oil, according to the word of the priests who are at Jerusalem, let it be given them day by day without fail;

In those days saw I in Judah some men treading wine presses on the Sabbath, and bringing in sheaves, and loading donkeys; as also wine, grapes, and figs, and all kinds of burdens, which they brought into Jerusalem on the Sabbath day: and I testified against them in the day in which they sold food.

Go now to the flock, and get me from there two good young goats. I will make them savory food for your father, such as he loves.

Peter opened his mouth and said, “Truly I perceive that God doesn’t show favoritism; — read the full passage →

Listen, my son, and be wise, and keep your heart on the right path! — read the full passage →

When you come into your neighbor’s vineyard, then you may eat of grapes your fill at your own pleasure; but you shall not put any in your container.

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

Be subject therefore to God. But resist the devil, and he will flee from you.

Yes, and for this very cause adding on your part all diligence, in your faith supply moral excellence; and in moral excellence, knowledge; — 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.

But the things which proceed out of the mouth come out of the heart, and they defile the man.

He said to them, “You yourselves know how it is an unlawful thing for a man who is a Jew to join himself or come to one of another nation, but God has shown me that I shouldn’t call any man unholy or unclean.

For even when we were with you, we commanded you this: “If anyone will not work, neither let him eat.”

He commanded the multitudes to sit down on the grass; and he took the five loaves and the two fish, and looking up to heaven, he blessed, broke and gave the loaves to the disciples, and the disciples gave to the multitudes.

Give us today our daily bread.