The Food We Eat

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.

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 →

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

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

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 →

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.

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

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,

Most certainly, I tell you, he who believes in me has eternal life. — read the full passage →

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

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

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, “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.

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

Therefore whoever eats this bread or drinks the Lord’s cup in a way unworthy of the Lord will be guilty of the body and the blood of the Lord. — read the full passage →

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.

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 →

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?

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

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

For it seemed good to the Holy Spirit, and to us, to lay no greater burden on you than these necessary things: — read the full passage →

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

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 he answered, “It is written, ‘Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds out of the mouth of God.’”

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 →

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 →

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

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

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

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;

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,

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.

Go your way—eat your bread with joy, and drink your wine with a merry heart; for God has already accepted your works.

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

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

Pleasant words are a honeycomb, sweet to the soul, and health to the bones.

It was so, when the days of their feasting had run their course, that Job sent and sanctified them, and rose up early in the morning, and offered burnt offerings according to the number of them all. For Job said, “It may be that my sons have sinned, and renounced God in their hearts.” Job did so continually.

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

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 →

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

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

They wrote these things by their hand: “The apostles, the elders, and the brothers, to the brothers who are of the Gentiles in Antioch, Syria, and Cilicia: greetings. — read the full passage →

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

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

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

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

forbidding marriage and commanding to abstain from foods which God created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and know the truth.

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? — read the full passage →

He shall eat butter and honey when he knows to refuse the evil, and choose the 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.

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 →

God blessed Noah and his sons, and said to them, “Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth. — read the full passage →

for the Kingdom of God is not eating and drinking, but righteousness, peace, and joy in the Holy Spirit. — read the full passage →

Test your servants, I beg you, ten days; and let them give us vegetables to eat, and water to drink.

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.”

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

But flesh with its life, that is, its blood, you shall not eat.

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

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

But woe to you Pharisees! For you tithe mint and rue and every herb, but you bypass justice and the love of God. You ought to have done these, and not to have left the other undone.

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.

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

Better is a dinner of herbs, where love is, than a fattened calf with hatred.

Then he said to them, “Go your way. Eat the fat, drink the sweet, and send portions to him for whom nothing is prepared; for this day is holy to our Lord. Don’t be grieved; for the joy of Yahweh is your strength.”

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.

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;

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.

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

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 →

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.”

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 →

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

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

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.

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.”

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

For we brought nothing into the world, and we certainly can’t carry anything out. — read the full passage →

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

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

“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.

He took the five loaves and the two fish, and looking up to the sky, he blessed them, and broke them, and gave them to the disciples to set before the multitude. — 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.

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 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.

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 →

The daughter of Zion is left like a shelter in a vineyard, like a hut in a field of melons, like a besieged city.

Strengthen me with raisins, refresh me with apples; For I am faint with love.

There will be plenty of goats’ milk for your food, for your family’s food, and for the nourishment of your servant girls.

It is vain for you to rise up early, to stay up late, eating the bread of toil; for he gives sleep to his loved ones.

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

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.

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;

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.

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

I speak as to wise men. Judge what I say. — read the full passage →

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

The liberal soul shall be made fat. He who waters shall be watered also himself.