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Healthy Eating
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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 →
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.
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.
Beloved, I pray that you may prosper in all things and be healthy, even as your soul prospers.
Don’t you know that you are a temple of God, and that God’s Spirit lives in you? — 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.
It is not good to eat much honey; nor is it honorable to seek one’s own honor.
Now accept one who is weak in faith, but not for disputes over opinions. — read the full passage →
“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.
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.
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.
You shall serve Yahweh your God, and he will bless your bread and your water, and I will take sickness away from your midst.
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.’”
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.
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 the drunkard and the glutton shall become poor; and drowsiness clothes them in rags.
Yahweh spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying to them, — read the full passage →
put a knife to your throat, if you are a man given to appetite.
The pig, because it has a split hoof but doesn’t chew the cud, is unclean to you. You shall not eat their flesh, and you shall not touch their carcasses.
“‘It shall be a perpetual statute throughout your generations in all your dwellings, that you shall eat neither fat nor blood.’”
There is nothing from outside of the man, that going into him can defile him; but the things which proceed out of the man are those that defile the man. — read the full passage →
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.
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 →
When you sit to eat with a ruler, consider diligently what is before you;
Don’t be among ones drinking too much wine, or those who gorge themselves on meat: — read the full passage →
“Speak to the children of Israel, saying, ‘These are the living things which you may eat among all the animals that are on the earth.
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.
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, — read the full passage →
a land of wheat and barley, and vines and fig trees and pomegranates; a land of olive trees and honey;
For every creature of God is good, and nothing is to be rejected, if it is received with thanksgiving.
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.
whose end is destruction, whose god is the belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who think about earthly things.
I am Yahweh, your God, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt. Open your mouth wide, and I will fill it.
“Speak to the children of Israel, saying, ‘You shall eat no fat, of bull, or sheep, or goat. — read the full passage →
who satisfies your desire with good things, so that your youth is renewed like the eagle’s.
“Speak to the children of Israel, saying, ‘You shall eat no fat, of bull, or sheep, or goat.
But Yahweh said to Samuel, “Don’t look on his face, or on the height of his stature; because I have rejected him: for I see not as man sees; for man looks at the outward appearance, but Yahweh looks at the heart.”
A cheerful heart makes good medicine, but a crushed spirit dries up the bones.
“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.’”
By the river on its bank, on this side and on that side, shall grow every tree for food, whose leaf shall not wither, neither shall its fruit fail: it shall produce new fruit every month, because its waters issue out of the sanctuary; and its fruit shall be for food, and its leaf for healing.
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.
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.
They shall eat the flesh in that night, roasted with fire, and unleavened bread. They shall eat it with bitter herbs.
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.”
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.
May the God of peace himself sanctify you completely. May your whole spirit, soul, and body be preserved blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Also that every man should eat and drink, and enjoy good in all his labor, is the gift of God.
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 →
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 →
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.
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faith, — read the full passage →
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.
I can do all things through Christ, who strengthens me.
For Christ is the fulfillment of the law for righteousness to everyone who believes.
Have you found honey? Eat as much as is sufficient for you, lest you eat too much, and vomit it.
Wine is a mocker, and beer is a brawler. Whoever is led astray by them is not wise.
Whatever is sold in the butcher shop, eat, asking no question for the sake of conscience,
Better is a dry morsel with quietness, than a house full of feasting with strife.
Yahweh God commanded the man, saying, “You may freely eat of every tree of the garden;
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.”
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.”
Be no longer a drinker of water only, but use a little wine for your stomach’s sake and your frequent infirmities.
because it doesn’t go into his heart, but into his stomach, then into the latrine, thus purifying all foods?”
Don’t be wise in your own eyes. Fear Yahweh, and depart from evil. — read the full passage →
but whoever drinks of the water that I will give him will never thirst again; but the water that I will give him will become in him a well of water springing up to eternal life.”
and Yahweh will guide you continually, and satisfy your soul in dry places, and make strong your bones; and you shall be like a watered garden, and like a spring of water, whose waters don’t fail.
Therefore I beg you to take some food, for this is for your safety; for not a hair will perish from any of your heads.”
A voice came to him again the second time, “What God has cleansed, you must not call unclean.”
Yahweh is my strength and my shield. My heart has trusted in him, and I am helped. Therefore my heart greatly rejoices. With my song I will thank him.
Don’t be drunken with wine, in which is dissipation, but be filled with the Spirit,
Behold, I will bring it health and cure, and I will cure them; and I will reveal to them abundance of peace and truth.
in which were all kinds of four-footed animals of the earth, wild animals, reptiles, and birds of the sky. — read the full passage →
Don’t you know that those who run in a race all run, but one receives the prize? Run like that, that you may win. — read the full passage →
Woe to you, land, when your king is a child, and your princes eat in the morning! — read the full passage →
The life of the body is a heart at peace, but envy rots the bones.
The fear of you and the dread of you will be on every animal of the earth, and on every bird of the sky. Everything that moves along the ground, and all the fish of the sea, are delivered into your hand. — read the full passage →
“‘Nevertheless these you shall not eat of those that chew the cud, or of those who part the hoof: the camel, because he chews the cud but doesn’t have a parted hoof, he is unclean to you. — read the full passage →
It will yield thorns and thistles to you; and you will eat the herb of the field.
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.
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. — read the full passage →
Looking at them, Jesus said, “With men this is impossible, but with God all things are possible.”
Test your servants, I beg you, ten days; and let them give us vegetables to eat, and water to drink.
Who gives food to every creature; for his loving kindness endures forever.
for you were bought with a price. Therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God’s.
One man has faith to eat all things, but he who is weak eats only vegetables. — read the full passage →
they will take up serpents; and if they drink any deadly thing, it will in no way hurt them; they will lay hands on the sick, and they will recover.”
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.
In the third year of the reign of Jehoiakim king of Judah came Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon to Jerusalem, and besieged it. — read the full passage →
Yahweh is my shepherd: I shall lack nothing. — read the full passage →
“Foods for the belly, and the belly for foods,” but God will bring to nothing both it and them. But the body is not for sexual immorality, but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body.
Therefore if food causes my brother to stumble, I will eat no meat forever more, that I don’t cause my brother to stumble.
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.
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,
Into whatever city you enter, and they receive you, eat the things that are set before you.
Let your gentleness be known to all men. The Lord is at hand.
Flee sexual immorality! “Every sin that a man does is outside the body,” but he who commits sexual immorality sins against his own body.
For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared before that we would walk in them.
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.”
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?
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