Spiritual Food

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

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

For my flesh is food indeed, and my blood is drink indeed. — 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.’”

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

They continued steadfastly in the apostles’ teaching and fellowship, in the breaking of bread, and prayer.

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

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

It is the spirit who gives life. The flesh profits nothing. The words that I speak to you are spirit, and are life.

Jesus said therefore to the twelve, “You don’t also want to go away, do you?” — read the full passage →

and all ate the same spiritual food;

For which of you, desiring to build a tower, doesn’t first sit down and count the cost, to see if he has enough to complete it?

Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you travel around by sea and land to make one proselyte; and when he becomes one, you make him twice as much of a son of Gehennaas yourselves.

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 →

All things therefore whatever they tell you to observe, observe and do, but don’t do their works; for they say, and don’t do.

Put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil.

Then Jesus spoke to the multitudes and to his disciples, — read the full passage →

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.

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.

This was because of the false brothers secretly brought in, who stole in to spy out our liberty which we have in Christ Jesus, that they might bring us into bondage;

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.”

Jesus said to them, “Take heed and beware of the yeast of the Pharisees and Sadducees.”

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

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.

I am the vine. You are the branches. He who remains in me, and I in him, the same bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing.

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.”

I am the bread of life.

Jesus said to them, “My food is to do the will of him who sent me, and to accomplish his work.

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

Now in the assembly that was at Antioch there were some prophets and teachers: Barnabas, Simeon who was called Niger, Lucius of Cyrene, Manaen the foster brother of Herod the tetrarch, and Saul. — read the full passage →

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

So faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.

Sanctify them in your truth. Your word is truth.

Jesus therefore said to them, “Most certainly, I tell you, it wasn’t Moses who gave you the bread out of heaven, but my Father gives you the true bread out of heaven. — read the full passage →

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 →

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

Jesus answered them, “Most certainly I tell you, you seek me, not because you saw signs, but because you ate of the loaves, and were filled. — read the full passage →

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,

But not so with you. But one who is the greater among you, let him become as the younger, and one who is governing, as one who serves.

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?

Putting away therefore all wickedness, all deceit, hypocrisies, envies, and all evil speaking,

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

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.

If therefore you have not been faithful in the unrighteous mammon, who will commit to your trust the true riches?

Then Jesus spoke to the multitudes and to his disciples, — read the full passage →

Then they understood that he didn’t tell them to beware of the yeast of bread, but of the teaching of the Pharisees and Sadducees.

I saw a mighty angel coming down out of the sky, clothed with a cloud. A rainbow was on his head. His face was like the sun, and his feet like pillars of fire. — read the full passage →

Therefore we ought to pay greater attention to the things that were heard, lest perhaps we drift away. — read the full passage →

You offspring of vipers, how can you, being evil, speak good things? For out of the abundance of the heart, the mouth speaks. — read the full passage →

“No one can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other; or else he will be devoted to one and despise the other. You can’t serve both God and Mammon.

The voice which I heard from heaven, again speaking with me, said, “Go, take the book which is open in the hand of the angel who stands on the sea and on the land.” — read the full passage →

He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the assemblies. To him who overcomes, to him I will give of the hidden manna, and I will give him a white stone, and on the stone a new name written, which no one knows but he who receives it.

casting all your worries on him, because he cares for you.

Seeing you have purified your souls in your obedience to the truth through the Spirit in sincere brotherly affection, love one another from the heart fervently: — read the full passage →

that you won’t be sluggish, but imitators of those who through faith and patience inherited the promises.

Brothers, I couldn’t speak to you as to spiritual, but as to fleshly, as to babies in Christ. — read the full passage →

What then? That which Israel seeks for, that he didn’t obtain, but the chosen ones obtained it, and the rest were hardened. — read the full passage →

The brothers immediately sent Paul and Silas away by night to Beroea. When they arrived, they went into the Jewish synagogue. — read the full passage →

Now before the feast of the Passover, Jesus, knowing that his time had come that he would depart from this world to the Father, having loved his own who were in the world, he loved them to the end. — read the full passage →

Therefore many of his disciples, when they heard this, said, “This is a hard saying! Who can listen to it?” — read the full passage →

Now when Jesus heard this, he withdrew from there in a boat, to a deserted place apart. When the multitudes heard it, they followed him on foot from the cities. — read the full passage →

Give us today our daily bread.

The voice which I heard from heaven, again speaking with me, said, “Go, take the book which is open in the hand of the angel who stands on the sea and on the land.” — read the full passage →

The voice which I heard from heaven, again speaking with me, said, “Go, take the book which is open in the hand of the angel who stands on the sea and on the land.”

Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, then I will come in to him, and will dine with him, and he with me.

You also, as living stones, are built up as a spiritual house, to be a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.

Be free from the love of money, content with such things as you have, for he has said, “I will in no way leave you, neither will I in any way forsake you.”

If anyone teaches a different doctrine, and doesn’t consent to sound words, the words of our Lord Jesus Christ, and to the doctrine which is according to godliness, — read the full passage →

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.

As many as desire to look good in the flesh, they compel you to be circumcised; only that they may not be persecuted for the cross of Christ. — read the full passage →

For you bear with a man, if he brings you into bondage, if he devours you, if he takes you captive, if he exalts himself, if he strikes you on the face.

You will know the truth, and the truth will make you free.”

“Then the Kingdom of Heaven will be like ten virgins, who took their lamps, and went out to meet the bridegroom. — read the full passage →

“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you tithe mint, dill, and cumin, and have left undone the weightier matters of the law: justice, mercy, and faith. But you ought to have done these, and not to have left the other undone. — read the full passage →

He who doesn’t love doesn’t know God, for God is love.

Count it all joy, my brothers, when you fall into various temptations,