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What To Eat
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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.
Yahweh spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying to them, — 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?
Whether therefore you eat, or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.
“Therefore don’t be anxious, saying, ‘What will we eat?’, ‘What will we drink?’ or, ‘With what will we be clothed?’ — 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.”
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.’”
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.
Who gives food to every creature; for his loving kindness endures forever.
For every creature of God is good, and nothing is to be rejected, if it is received with thanksgiving.
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.
Now accept one who is weak in faith, but not for disputes over opinions. — 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.
because it doesn’t go into his heart, but into his stomach, then into the latrine, thus purifying all foods?”
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 seek first God’s Kingdom, and his righteousness; and all these things will be given to you as well.
Blessed are those who hunger and thirst after righteousness, for they shall be filled.
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 →
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 →
One man has faith to eat all things, but he who is weak eats only vegetables.
It is not good to eat much honey; nor is it honorable to seek one’s own honor.
Whatever is sold in the butcher shop, eat, asking no question for the sake of conscience,
“Which of you, by being anxious, can add one momentto his lifespan?
The eyes of all wait for you. You give them their food in due season.
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 →
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,
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.
put a knife to your throat, if you are a man given to appetite.
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.
“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.
For Christ is the fulfillment of the law for righteousness to everyone who believes.
A voice came to him again the second time, “What God has cleansed, you must not call unclean.”
Then Jesus came and took the bread, gave it to them, and the fish likewise.
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.”
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 →
When they bring you before the synagogues, the rulers, and the authorities, don’t be anxious how or what you will answer, or what you will say;
Jesus answered her, “Martha, Martha, you are anxious and troubled about many things,
Into whatever city you enter, and they receive you, eat the things that are set before you.
For everything spoken by God is possible.”
“Therefore don’t be anxious, saying, ‘What will we eat?’, ‘What will we drink?’ or, ‘With what will we be clothed?’
See the birds of the sky, that they don’t sow, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns. Your heavenly Father feeds them. Aren’t you of much more value than they?
But when you do merciful deeds, don’t let your left hand know what your right hand does,
He opened his mouth and taught them, saying,
Have you found honey? Eat as much as is sufficient for you, lest you eat too much, and vomit it.
Oh taste and see that Yahweh is good. Blessed is the man who takes refuge in him. — read the full passage →
“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.’”
Beloved, I pray that you may prosper in all things and be healthy, even as your soul prospers.
But having food and clothing, we will be content with that.
forbidding marriage and commanding to abstain from foods which God created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and know the truth.
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 →
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.
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. — 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.
Then Daniel said to the steward whom the prince of the eunuchs had appointed over Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah: — read the full passage →
Also that every man should eat and drink, and enjoy good in all his labor, is the gift of God.
Don’t be among ones drinking too much wine, or those who gorge themselves on meat: — read the full passage →
“‘It shall be a perpetual statute throughout your generations in all your dwellings, that you shall eat neither fat nor blood.’”
But be doers of the word, and not only hearers, deluding your own selves. — 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. — read the full passage →
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.
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.
Therefore if food causes my brother to stumble, I will eat no meat forever more, that I don’t cause my brother to stumble.
So then each one of us will give account of himself to God.
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.
At about the ninth hour of the day, he clearly saw in a vision an angel of God coming to him, and saying to him, “Cornelius!”
Don’t seek what you will eat or what you will drink; neither be anxious.
(For the Pharisees, and all the Jews, don’t eat unless they wash their hands and forearms, holding to the tradition of the elders.
The disciples said to him, “Where should we get so many loaves in a deserted place as to satisfy so great a multitude?”
That which enters into the mouth doesn’t defile the man; but that which proceeds out of the mouth, this defiles the man.”
yet I tell you that even Solomon in all his glory was not dressed like one of these.
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.
as newborn babies, long for the pure milk of the Word, that with it you may grow,
Putting away therefore all wickedness, all deceit, hypocrisies, envies, and all evil speaking, — read the full passage →
For we brought nothing into the world, and we certainly can’t carry anything out. — read the full passage →
Those who have believing masters, let them not despise them, because they are brothers, but rather let them serve them, because those who partake of the benefit are believing and beloved. Teach and exhort these things.
I know how to be humbled, and I know also how to abound. In everything and in all things I have learned the secret both to be filled and to be hungry, both to abound and to be in need.
Now may he who supplies seed to the sower and bread for food, supply and multiply your seed for sowing, and increase the fruits of your righteousness;
“All things are lawful for me,” but not all things are profitable. “All things are lawful for me,” but not all things build up.
and all ate the same spiritual food;
for the Kingdom of God is not eating and drinking, but righteousness, peace, and joy in the Holy Spirit.
Who are you who judge another’s servant? To his own lord he stands or falls. Yes, he will be made to stand, for God has power to make him stand.
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.”
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 →
Suddenly there came from the sky a sound like the rushing of a mighty wind, and it filled all the house where they were sitting.
Now on the last and greatest day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried out, “If anyone is thirsty, let him come to me and drink!
As the living Father sent me, and I live because of the Father; so he who feeds on me, he will also live because of me.
Jesus went up into the mountain, and he sat there with his disciples.
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 →
But there is nothing covered up, that will not be revealed, nor hidden, that will not be known.
Meanwhile, when a multitude of many thousands had gathered together, so much so that they trampled on each other, he began to tell his disciples first of all, “Beware of the yeast of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy. — read the full passage →
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 →
Therefore when you do merciful deeds, don’t sound a trumpet before yourself, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may get glory from men. Most certainly I tell you, they have received their reward.
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.
Happy are you, land, when your king is the son of nobles, and your princes eat in due season, for strength, and not for drunkenness!
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 →
Better is a dinner of herbs, where love is, than a fattened calf with hatred.
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.
A great multitude followed him, because they saw his signs which he did on those who were sick.
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