What We Should Eat

And Jehovah speaketh unto Moses and unto Aaron, saying unto them, — read the full passage →

Every creeping thing that is alive, to you it is for food; as the green herb I have given to you the whole;

let not him who is eating despise him who is not eating: and let not him who is not eating judge him who is eating, for God did receive him. — read the full passage →

therefore ye may not be anxious, saying, What may we eat? or, What may we drink? or, What may we put round? — read the full passage →

And Daniel saith unto the Meltzar, whom the chief of the eunuchs hath appointed over Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah, — read the full passage →

Jesus, therefore, doth come and take the bread and give to them, and the fish in like manner;

because it doth not enter into his heart, but into the belly, and into the drain it doth go out, purifying all the meats.'

not that which is coming into the mouth doth defile the man, but that which is coming forth from the mouth, this defileth the man.'

For, lo, Jehovah in fire cometh, And as a hurricane His chariots, To refresh in fury His anger, And His rebuke in flames of fire. — read the full passage →

And him who is weak in the faith receive ye--not to determinations of reasonings; — read the full passage →

and <FI>there is<Fi> a voice again a second time unto him: `What God did cleanse, thou, declare not thou common;'

And God saith, `Lo, I have given to you every herb sowing seed, which <FI>is<Fi> upon the face of all the earth, and every tree in which <FI>is<Fi> the fruit of a tree sowing seed, to you it is for food;

Whether, then, ye eat, or drink, or do anything, do all to the glory of God;

I call upon you, therefore, brethren, through the compassions of God, to present your bodies a sacrifice--living, sanctified, acceptable to God--your intelligent service;

work not for the food that is perishing, but for the food that is remaining to life age-during, which the Son of Man will give to you, for him did the Father seal--<FI> even<Fi> God.'

because every creature of God <FI>is<Fi> good, and nothing <FI>is<Fi> to be rejected, with thanksgiving being received,

And the Spirit expressly speaketh, that in latter times shall certain fall away from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits and teachings of demons, — read the full passage →

Let no one, then, judge you in eating or in drinking, or in respect of a feast, or of a new moon, or of sabbaths, — read the full passage →

But victuals do not commend us to God, for neither if we may eat are we in advance; nor if we may not eat, are we behind;

Jesus, therefore, said to them, `Verily, verily, I say to you, If ye may not eat the flesh of the Son of Man, and may not drink his blood, ye have no life in yourselves; — read the full passage →

The eating of much honey is not good, Nor a searching out of one's own honour--honour.

Taste ye and see that Jehovah <FI>is<Fi> good, O the happiness of the man who trusteth in Him. — read the full passage →

And the Spirit expressly speaketh, that in latter times shall certain fall away from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits and teachings of demons, — read the full passage →

Let no one, then, judge you in eating or in drinking, or in respect of a feast, or of a new moon, or of sabbaths,

And in the day of the Pentecost being fulfilled, they were all with one accord at the same place, — read the full passage →

And on the morrow, as these are proceeding on the way, and are drawing nigh to the city, Peter went up upon the house-top to pray, about the sixth hour, — read the full passage →

Giving food to all flesh, For to the age <FI>is<Fi> His kindness.

`A statute age-during to your generations in all your dwellings: any fat or any blood ye do not eat.'

whose end <FI>is<Fi> destruction, whose god <FI>is<Fi> the belly, and whose glory <FI>is<Fi> in their shame, who the things on earth are minding.

Whatever in the meat-market is sold eat ye, not inquiring, because of the conscience,

Have ye not known that your body is a sanctuary of the Holy Spirit in you, which ye have from God? and ye are not your own, — read the full passage →

I call upon you, therefore, brethren, through the compassions of God, to present your bodies a sacrifice--living, sanctified, acceptable to God--your intelligent service; — read the full passage →

And Jesus said to them, `I am the bread of the life; he who is coming unto me may not hunger, and he who is believing in me may not thirst--at any time;

But he answering said, `It hath been written, Not upon bread alone doth man live, but upon every word coming forth from the mouth of God.'

Those sanctifying and cleansing themselves at the gardens, After Ahad in the midst, Eating flesh of the sow, And of the abomination, and of the mouse, Together are consumed, An affirmation of Jehovah.

Better <FI>is<Fi> an allowance of green herbs and love there, Than a fatted ox, and hatred with it.

All things are lawful to me, but all things are not profitable; all things are lawful to me, but I--I will not be under authority by any;

Right <FI>it is<Fi> not to eat flesh, nor to drink wine, nor to <FI>do anything<Fi> in which thy brother doth stumble, or is made to fall, or is weak.

so, then, each of us concerning himself shall give reckoning to God;

and into whatever city ye enter, and they may receive you, eat the things set before you,

`Judge not, that ye may not be judged, — read the full passage →

`Because of this I say to you, be not anxious for your life, what ye may eat, and what ye may drink, nor for your body, what ye may put on. Is not the life more than the nourishment, and the body than the clothing?

Hear ye the word, O house of Israel, That Jehovah hath spoken for you. — read the full passage →

Why do ye weigh money for that which is not bread? And your labour for that which is not for satiety? Hearken diligently unto me, and eat good, And your soul doth delight itself in fatness.

And thou hast put a knife to thy throat, If thou <FI>art<Fi> a man of appetite.

`Any clean bird ye do eat; — read the full passage →

and the sow, for it is dividing the hoof, and not <FI>bringing<Fi> up the cud, unclean it <FI>is<Fi> to you; of their flesh ye do not eat, and against their carcase ye do not come.

`This ye do eat of all which <FI>are<Fi> in the waters; any one that hath fins and scales in the waters, in the seas, and in the brooks, them ye do eat;

and to every beast of the earth, and to every fowl of the heavens, and to every creeping thing on the earth, in which <FI>is<Fi> breath of life, every green herb <FI>is<Fi> for food:' and it is so.

A revelation of Jesus Christ, that God gave to him, to shew to his servants what things it behoveth to come to pass quickly; and he did signify <FI>it<Fi> , having sent through his messenger to his servant John,

beloved, concerning all things I desire thee to prosper, and to be in health, even as thy soul doth prosper,

but having food and raiment--with these we shall suffice ourselves;

wherefore, if victuals cause my brother to stumble, I may eat no flesh--to the age--that my brother I may not cause to stumble.

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

For Christ is an end of law for righteousness to every one who is believing,

`For it seemed good to the Holy Spirit, and to us, no more burden to lay upon you, except these necessary things: — read the full passage →

`I am the living bread that came down out of the heaven; if any one may eat of this bread he shall live--to the age; and the bread also that I will give is my flesh, that I will give for the life of the world.'

`The salt <FI>is<Fi> good, but if the salt doth become tasteless, with what shall it be seasoned?

because nothing shall be impossible with God.'

And as they are eating, Jesus having taken bread, having blessed, brake, and gave to them, and said, `Take, eat; this is my body.'

And gathered together unto him are the Pharisees, and certain of the scribes, having come from Jerusalem, — read the full passage →

And having seen the multitudes, he went up to the mount, and he having sat down, his disciples came to him, — read the full passage →

yea, even every man who eateth and hath drunk and seen good by all his labour, it <FI>is<Fi> a gift of God.

`And ye have sanctified yourselves, and ye have been holy, for I <FI>am<Fi> Jehovah your God;

And there was a certain man in Caesarea, by name Cornelius, a centurion from a band called Italian, — read the full passage →

that which hath been born of the flesh is flesh, and that which hath been born of the Spirit is spirit. — read the full passage →

And he said unto his disciples, `Because of this, to you I say, Be not anxious for your life, what ye may eat; nor for the body, what ye may put on;

and I say to you, that not even Solomon in all his glory was arrayed as one of these.

`And who of you, being anxious, is able to add to his age one cubit?

look to the fowls of the heaven, for they do not sow, nor reap, nor gather into storehouses, and your heavenly Father doth nourish them; are not ye much better than they?

`Try, I pray thee, thy servants, ten days; and they give to us of the vegetables, and we eat, and water, and we drink;

Be not thou among quaffers of wine, Among gluttonous ones of flesh, — read the full passage →

`this <FI>is<Fi> the beast which ye do eat: ox, lamb of the sheep, or kid of the goats,

`For I <FI>am<Fi> Jehovah your God, and ye have sanctified yourselves, and ye have been holy, for I <FI>am<Fi> holy; and ye do not defile your persons with any teeming thing which is creeping on the earth;

and the sow, though it is dividing the hoof, and cleaving the cleft of the hoof, yet the cud it bringeth not up--unclean it <FI>is<Fi> to you.

And the woman saith unto the serpent, `Of the fruit of the trees of the garden we do eat, — read the full passage →

And the Spirit expressly speaketh, that in latter times shall certain fall away from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits and teachings of demons,

for even when we were with you, this we did command you, that if any one is not willing to work, neither let him eat,

and all the same spiritual food did eat,

and he doth behold the heaven opened, and descending unto him a certain vessel, as a great sheet, bound at the four corners, and let down upon the earth, — read the full passage →

And in the meanwhile his disciples were asking him, saying, `Rabbi, eat;'

for God did so love the world, that His Son--the only begotten--He gave, that every one who is believing in him may not perish, but may have life age-during. — read the full passage →

and having brought the fatted calf, kill <FI>it<Fi> , and having eaten, we may be merry,

`And when they bring you before the synagogues, and the rulers, and the authorities, be not anxious how or what ye may reply, or what ye may say,

And Jesus answering said to her, `Martha, Martha, thou art anxious and disquieted about many things,

and he saith to them, `So also ye are without understanding! Do ye not perceive that nothing from without entering into the man is able to defile him? — read the full passage →

And John was clothed with camel's hair, and a girdle of skin around his loins, and eating locusts and honey of the field,

but seek ye first the reign of God and His righteousness, and all these shall be added to you.

and at the end of ten days their appearance hath appeared better and fatter in flesh then any of the lads who are eating the king's portion of food.

`And thou, take to thee wheat, and barley, and beans, and lentiles, and millet, and spelt, and thou hast put them in one vessel, and made them to thee for bread; the number of the days that thou art lying on thy side--three hundred and ninety days--thou dost eat it.

Butter and honey he doth eat, When he knoweth to refuse evil, and to fix on good.

Honey thou hast found--eat thy sufficiency, Lest thou be satiated <FI>with<Fi> it, and hast vomited it.

And Boaz saith to her, `At meal-time come nigh hither, and thou hast eaten of the bread, and dipped thy morsel in the vinegar.' And she sitteth at the side of the reapers, and he reacheth to her roasted corn, and she eateth, and is satisfied, and leaveth.

`When thou comest in unto the vineyard of thy neighbour, then thou hast eaten grapes, according to thy desire, thy sufficiency; but into thy vessel thou dost not put <FI>any<Fi> .

a land of wheat, and barley, and vine, and fig, and pomegranate; a land of oil olive and honey;

`Speak unto the sons of Israel, saying, This <FI>is<Fi> the beast which ye do eat out of all the beasts which <FI>are<Fi> on the earth:

and I say, I bring you up out of the affliction of Egypt, unto the land of the Canaanite, and the Hittite, and the Amorite, and the Perizzite, and the Hivite, and the Jebusite, unto a land flowing <FI>with<Fi> milk and honey.

one doth believe that he may eat all things--and he who is weak doth eat herbs;

`Happy those hungering and thirsting for righteousness--because they shall be filled.

The eyes of all unto Thee do look, And Thou art giving to them their food in its season,