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Vegetarianism
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It is good to not eat meat, drink wine, nor do anything by which your brother stumbles, is offended, or is made weak.
Every moving thing that lives will be food for you. As I gave you the green herb, I have given everything to you.
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.
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 →
The wolf will live with the lamb, and the leopard will lie down with the young goat; The calf, the young lion, and the fattened calf together; and a little child will lead them. — 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.
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 →
Now accept one who is weak in faith, but not for disputes over opinions. — read the full passage →
One man has faith to eat all things, but he who is weak eats only vegetables. — read the full passage →
The wolf and the lamb shall feed together, and the lion shall eat straw like the ox; and dust shall be the serpent’s food. They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain,” says Yahweh.
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 →
Yahweh spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying to them, — 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,
Better is a dinner of herbs, where love is, than a fattened calf with hatred.
for the Kingdom of God is not eating and drinking, but righteousness, peace, and joy in the Holy Spirit.
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 flesh with its life, that is, its blood, you shall not eat.
Test your servants, I beg you, ten days; and let them give us vegetables to eat, and water to drink. — read the full passage →
Now accept one who is weak in faith, but not for disputes over opinions. — 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.
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 →
That which enters into the mouth doesn’t defile the man; but that which proceeds out of the mouth, this defiles the man.”
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.
You shall not eat any abominable thing. — read the full passage →
Then I said, Ah Lord Yahweh! behold, my soul has not been polluted; for from my youth up even until now have I not eaten of that which dies of itself, or is torn of animals; neither came there abominable flesh into my mouth.
Whatever is sold in the butcher shop, eat, asking no question for the sake of conscience, — read the full passage →
The cow and the bear will graze. Their young ones will lie down together. The lion will eat straw like the ox.
Whether therefore you eat, or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.
in the middle of its street. On this side of the river and on that was the tree of life, bearing twelve kinds of fruits, yielding its fruit every month. The leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations.
One man has faith to eat all things, but he who is weak eats only vegetables.
They gave him a piece of a broiled fish and some honeycomb. — read the full passage →
A righteous man respects the life of his animal, but the tender mercies of the wicked are cruel.
Listen, my son, and be wise, and keep your heart on the right path! — read the full passage →
“Speak to the children of Israel, saying, ‘You shall eat no fat, of bull, or sheep, or goat. — 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 →
A voice came to him, “Rise, Peter, kill and eat!” — read the full passage →
He shall eat butter and honey when he knows to refuse the evil, and choose the good.
For every creature of God is good, and nothing is to be rejected, if it is received with thanksgiving.
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.
When I had looked intently at it, I considered, and saw the four-footed animals of the earth, wild animals, creeping things, and birds of the sky. — read the full passage →
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 →
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.
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. — read the full passage →
After these things, Jesus revealed himself again to the disciples at the sea of Tiberias. He revealed himself this way. — 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.
“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.
He who kills an ox is as he who kills a man; he who sacrifices a lamb, as he who breaks a dog’s neck; he who offers an offering, as he who offers pig’s blood; he who burns frankincense, as he who blesses an idol. Yes, they have chosen their own ways, and their soul delights in their abominations:
“‘It shall be a perpetual statute throughout your generations in all your dwellings, that you shall eat neither fat nor blood.’”
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 →
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 →
Test your servants, I beg you, ten days; and let them give us vegetables to eat, and water to drink.
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.
You are the children of Yahweh your God. You shall not cut yourselves, nor make any baldness between your eyes for the dead. — read the full passage →
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 →
He became hungry and desired to eat, but while they were preparing, he fell into a trance. — read the full passage →
But on the first day of the week, at early dawn, they and some others came to the tomb, bringing the spices which they had prepared. — read the full passage →
The animals of the field shall honor me, the jackals and the ostriches; because I give water in the wilderness and rivers in the desert, to give drink to my people, my chosen,
“But ask the animals, now, and they shall teach you; the birds of the sky, and they shall tell you. — read the full passage →
The children of Israel traveled, and encamped in the plains of Moab beyond the Jordan at Jericho. — 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 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.
Now accept one who is weak in faith, but not for disputes over opinions. — read the full passage →
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 →
God blessed Noah and his sons, and said to them, “Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth. — read the full passage →
It will yield thorns and thistles to you; and you will eat the herb of the field.
God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the sky, and over the livestock, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.” — read the full passage →
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.”
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 →
While they still didn’t believe for joy, and wondered, he said to them, “Do you have anything here to eat?” — 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.
Praise Yahweh from the earth, you great sea creatures, and all depths! — read the full passage →
Your righteousness is like the mountains of God. Your judgments are like a great deep. Yahweh, you preserve man and animal. — read the full passage →
Elijah said to the prophets of Baal, “Choose one bull for yourselves, and dress it first; for you are many; and call on the name of your god, but put no fire under it.” — 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 →
I desire therefore that the men in every place pray, lifting up holy hands without anger and doubting.
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 →
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.
I am the good shepherd. I know my own, and I’m known by my own;
because it doesn’t go into his heart, but into his stomach, then into the latrine, thus purifying all foods?”
In those days, Jesus came from Nazareth of Galilee, and was baptized by John in the Jordan. — read the full passage →
They told him, “We only have here five loaves and two fish.” — read the full passage →
Blessed are the merciful, for they shall obtain mercy.
Then Daniel said to the steward whom the prince of the eunuchs had appointed over Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah: — read the full passage →
They took fortified cities, and a rich land, and possessed houses full of all good things, cisterns dug out, vineyards, and olive groves, and fruit trees in abundance. So they ate, were filled, became fat, and delighted themselves in your great goodness.
You shall not eat any abominable thing. — read the full passage →
Yahweh spoke to Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt, saying, — read the full passage →
Peter opened his mouth and said, “Truly I perceive that God doesn’t show favoritism; — read the full passage →
“Jerusalem, Jerusalem, who kills the prophets, and stones those who are sent to her! How often I would have gathered your children together, even as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, and you would not!
“‘If any animal, of which you may eat, dies; he who touches its carcass shall be unclean until the evening. — 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 →
It shall happen, that fishermen shall stand by it: from En Gedi even to En Eglaim shall be a place for the spreading of nets; their fish shall be after their kinds, as the fish of the great sea, exceeding many. — read the full passage →
“What are the multitude of your sacrifices to me?”, says Yahweh. “I have had enough of the burnt offerings of rams, and the fat of fed animals. I don’t delight in the blood of bulls, or of lambs, or of male goats. — read the full passage →
It shall be, when Yahweh shall bring you into the land of the Canaanite, and the Hittite, and the Amorite, and the Hivite, and the Jebusite, which he swore to your fathers to give you, a land flowing with milk and honey, that you shall keep this service in this month.
For though I am absent in the flesh, yet am I with you in the spirit, rejoicing and seeing your order, and the steadfastness of your faith in Christ.
For I desire mercy, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings.
God called the light “day”, and the darkness he called “night”. There was evening and there was morning, the first day.
He showed me a river of water of life, clear as crystal, proceeding out of the throne of God and of the Lamb, — read the full passage →
But be careful that by no means does this liberty of yours become a stumbling block to the weak. — read the full passage →
One man esteems one day as more important. Another esteems every day alike. Let each man be fully assured in his own mind.
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