Healthy Eating

What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own? — read the full passage →

Whether therefore ye eat, or drink, or whatsoever ye do, do all to the glory of God.

And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat.

But I keep under my body, and bring it into subjection: lest that by any means, when I have preached to others, I myself should be a castaway.

Beloved, I wish above all things that thou mayest prosper and be in health, even as thy soul prospereth.

Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you? — read the full passage →

Every moving thing that liveth shall be meat for you; even as the green herb have I given you all things.

It is not good to eat much honey: so for men to search their own glory is not glory.

Him that is weak in the faith receive ye, but not to doubtful disputations. — read the full passage →

All things are lawful unto me, but all things are not expedient: all things are lawful for me, but I will not be brought under the power of any.

And Jesus said unto them, I am the bread of life: he that cometh to me shall never hunger; and he that believeth on me shall never thirst.

I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service.

And ye shall serve the Lord your God, and he shall bless thy bread, and thy water; and I will take sickness away from the midst of thee.

But he answered and said, It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God.

And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.

But Daniel purposed in his heart that he would not defile himself with the portion of the king’s meat, 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 the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty: and drowsiness shall clothe a man with rags.

And the Lord spake unto Moses and to Aaron, saying unto them, — read the full passage →

And put a knife to thy throat, if thou be a man given to appetite.

And the swine, because it divideth the hoof, yet cheweth not the cud, it is unclean unto you: ye shall not eat of their flesh, nor touch their dead carcase.

It shall be a perpetual statute for your generations throughout all your dwellings, that ye eat neither fat nor blood.

There is nothing from without a man, that entering into him can defile him: but the things which come out of him, those are they that defile the man. — read the full passage →

Take thou also unto thee wheat, and barley, and beans, and lentiles, and millet, and fitches, and put them in one vessel, and make thee bread thereof, according to the number of the days that thou shalt lie upon thy side, three hundred and ninety days shalt thou eat thereof.

Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils; — read the full passage →

When thou sittest to eat with a ruler, consider diligently what is before thee:

Be not among winebibbers; among riotous eaters of flesh: — read the full passage →

Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, These are the beasts which ye shall eat among all the beasts that are on the earth.

But meat commendeth us not to God: for neither, if we eat, are we the better; neither, if we eat not, are we the worse.

And he saith unto them, Are ye so without understanding also? Do ye not perceive, that whatsoever thing from without entereth into the man, it cannot defile him; — read the full passage →

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

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

And to every beast of the earth, and to every fowl of the air, and to every thing that creepeth upon the earth, wherein there is life, I have given every green herb for meat: and it was so.

Whose end is destruction, whose God is their belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who mind earthly things.)

I am the Lord thy God, which brought thee out of the land of Egypt: open thy mouth wide, and I will fill it.

Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, Ye shall eat no manner of fat, of ox, or of sheep, or of goat. — read the full passage →

Who satisfieth thy mouth with good things; so that thy youth is renewed like the eagle’s.

Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, Ye shall eat no manner of fat, of ox, or of sheep, or of goat.

But the Lord said unto Samuel, Look not on his countenance, or on the height of his stature; because I have refused him: for the Lord seeth not as man seeth; for man looketh on the outward appearance, but the Lord looketh on the heart.

A merry heart doeth good like a medicine: but a broken spirit drieth the bones.

I have heard the murmurings of the children of Israel: speak unto them, saying, At even ye shall eat flesh, and in the morning ye shall be filled with bread; and ye shall know that I am the Lord your God.

And by the river upon the bank thereof, on this side and on that side, shall grow all trees for meat, whose leaf shall not fade, neither shall the fruit thereof be consumed: it shall bring forth new fruit according to his months, because their waters they issued out of the sanctuary: and the fruit thereof shall be for meat, and the leaf thereof for medicine.

For bodily exercise profiteth little: but godliness is profitable unto all things, having promise of the life that now is, and of that which is to come.

Wherefore do ye spend money for that which is not bread? and your labour for that which satisfieth not? hearken diligently unto me, and eat ye that which is good, and let your soul delight itself in fatness.

And they shall eat the flesh in that night, roast with fire, and unleavened bread; and with bitter herbs they shall eat it.

And said, If thou wilt diligently hearken to the voice of the Lord thy God, and wilt do that which is right in his sight, and wilt give ear to his commandments, and keep all his statutes, I will put none of these diseases upon thee, which I have brought upon the Egyptians: for I am the Lord that healeth thee.

But Daniel purposed in his heart that he would not defile himself with the portion of the king’s meat, nor with the wine which he drank: therefore he requested of the prince of the eunuchs that he might not defile himself.

And the very God of peace sanctify you wholly; and I pray God your whole spirit and soul and body be preserved blameless unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.

And also that every man should eat and drink, and enjoy the good of all his labour, it is the gift of God.

I know that there is no good in them, but for a man to rejoice, and to do good in his life. — read the full passage →

Be careful for nothing; but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God. — read the full passage →

And at the end of ten days their countenances appeared fairer and fatter in flesh than all the children which did eat the portion of the king’s meat.

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, — read the full passage →

And he humbled thee, and suffered thee to hunger, and fed thee with manna, which thou knewest not, neither did thy fathers know; that he might make thee know that man doth not live by bread only, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of the Lord doth man live.

I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me.

For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to every one that believeth.

Hast thou found honey? eat so much as is sufficient for thee, lest thou be filled therewith, and vomit it.

Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging: and whosoever is deceived thereby is not wise.

Whatsoever is sold in the shambles, that eat, asking no question for conscience sake:

Better is a dry morsel, and quietness therewith, than an house full of sacrifices with strife.

And the Lord God commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat:

I am the living bread which came down from heaven: if any man eat of this bread, he shall live for ever: and the bread that I will give is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world.

Labour not for the meat which perisheth, but for that meat which endureth unto everlasting life, which the Son of man shall give unto you: for him hath God the Father sealed.

Drink no longer water, but use a little wine for thy stomach’s sake and thine often infirmities.

Because it entereth not into his heart, but into the belly, and goeth out into the draught, purging all meats?

Be not wise in thine own eyes: fear the Lord, and depart from evil. — read the full passage →

But whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst; but the water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting life.

And the Lord shall guide thee continually, and satisfy thy soul in drought, and make fat thy bones: and thou shalt be like a watered garden, and like a spring of water, whose waters fail not.

Wherefore I pray you to take some meat: for this is for your health: for there shall not an hair fall from the head of any of you.

And the voice spake unto him again the second time, What God hath cleansed, that call not thou common.

The Lord is my strength and my shield; my heart trusted in him, and I am helped: therefore my heart greatly rejoiceth; and with my song will I praise him.

And be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess; but be filled with the Spirit;

Behold, I will bring it health and cure, and I will cure them, and will reveal unto them the abundance of peace and truth.

Wherein were all manner of fourfooted beasts of the earth, and wild beasts, and creeping things, and fowls of the air. — read the full passage →

Know ye not that they which run in a race run all, but one receiveth the prize? So run, that ye may obtain. — read the full passage →

Woe to thee, O land, when thy king is a child, and thy princes eat in the morning! — read the full passage →

A sound heart is the life of the flesh: but envy the rottenness of the bones.

And the fear of you and the dread of you shall be upon every beast of the earth, and upon every fowl of the air, upon all that moveth upon the earth, and upon all the fishes of the sea; into your hand are they delivered. — read the full passage →

Nevertheless these shall ye not eat of them that chew the cud, or of them that divide the hoof: as the camel, because he cheweth the cud, but divideth not the hoof; he is unclean unto you. — read the full passage →

Thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth to thee; and thou shalt eat the herb of the field;

There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it.

And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat. — read the full passage →

But Jesus beheld them, and said unto them, With men this is impossible; but with God all things are possible.

Prove thy servants, I beseech thee, ten days; and let them give us pulse to eat, and water to drink.

Who giveth food to all flesh: for his mercy endureth for ever.

For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God’s.

For one believeth that he may eat all things: another, who is weak, eateth herbs. — read the full passage →

They shall take up serpents; and if they drink any deadly thing, it shall not hurt them; they shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover.

For meat destroy not the work of God. All things indeed are pure; but it is evil for that man who eateth with offence.

In the third year of the reign of Jehoiakim king of Judah came Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon unto Jerusalem, and besieged it. — read the full passage →

The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want. — read the full passage →

Meats for the belly, and the belly for meats: but God shall destroy both it and them. Now the body is not for fornication, but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body.

Wherefore, if meat make my brother to offend, I will eat no flesh while the world standeth, lest I make my brother to offend.

And he said unto his disciples, Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat; neither for the body, what ye shall put on.

The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave unto him, to shew unto his servants things which must shortly come to pass; and he sent and signified it by his angel unto his servant John:

And into whatsoever city ye enter, and they receive you, eat such things as are set before you:

Let your moderation be known unto all men. The Lord is at hand.

Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body.

For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them.

That ye abstain from meats offered to idols, and from blood, and from things strangled, and from fornication: from which if ye keep yourselves, ye shall do well. Fare ye well.

Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life more than meat, and the body than raiment?