Meat

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

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

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

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 →

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

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,

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

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.”

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,

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 →

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life. — read the full passage →

Now John himself wore clothing made of camel’s hair, with a leather belt around his waist. His food was locusts and wild honey.

If you died with Christ from the elements of the world, why, as though living in the world, do you subject yourselves to ordinances, — read the full passage →

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.

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

For everyone who lives on milk is not experienced in the word of righteousness, for he is a baby.

For although by this time you should be teachers, you again need to have someone teach you the rudiments of the first principles of the oracles of God. You have come to need milk, and not solid food.

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,

I fed you with milk, not with meat; for you weren’t yet ready. Indeed, not even now are you ready,

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 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 →

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 →

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?

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

But solid food is for those who are full grown, who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern good and evil.

For although by this time you should be teachers, you again need to have someone teach you the rudiments of the first principles of the oracles of God. You have come to need milk, and not solid food. — read the full passage →

About him we have many words to say, and hard to interpret, seeing you have become dull of hearing. — read the full passage →

About him we have many words to say, and hard to interpret, seeing you have become dull of hearing. — read the full passage →

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.

For when one says, “I follow Paul,” and another, “I follow Apollos,” aren’t you fleshly?

Brothers, I couldn’t speak to you as to spiritual, but as to fleshly, as to babies in Christ.

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.

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.”

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

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 →

“I have yet many things to tell you, but you can’t bear them now.

This is the bread which comes down out of heaven, that anyone may eat of it and not die. — 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,

and all drank the same spiritual drink. For they drank of a spiritual rock that followed them, and the rock was Christ.

Day by day, continuing steadfastly with one accord in the temple, and breaking bread at home, they took their food with gladness and singleness of heart, — read the full passage →

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. — read the full passage →

He answered them, “He who has two coats, let him give to him who has none. He who has food, let him do likewise.”

Now in the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Caesar, Pontius Pilate being governor of Judea, and Herod being tetrarch of Galilee, and his brother Philip tetrarch of the region of Ituraea and Trachonitis, and Lysanias tetrarch of Abilene, — read the full passage →

Every Scripture is God-breathed and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for instruction in righteousness,

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 →

but shun foolish questionings, genealogies, strife, and disputes about the law; for they are unprofitable and vain.

John, to the seven assemblies that are in Asia: Grace to you and peace, from God, who is and who was and who is to come; and from the seven Spirits who are before his throne;

If we confess our sins, he is faithful and righteous to forgive us the sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

Putting away therefore all wickedness, all deceit, hypocrisies, envies, and all evil speaking, — read the full passage →

For concerning those who were once enlightened and tasted of the heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the Holy Spirit,

Therefore leaving the teaching of the first principles of Christ, let us press on to perfection—not laying again a foundation of repentance from dead works, of faith toward God, — read the full passage →

Because of this, he must offer sacrifices for sins for the people, as well as for himself.

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