Topic

What We Should Not Eat

80 verses · ranked by helpfulness

Leviticus 11:1–47

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

Leviticus 11:7

The pig, because he has a split hoof, and is cloven-footed, but doesn’t chew the cud, he is unclean to you.

Genesis 9:3

Every moving thing that lives will be food for you. As I gave you the green herb, I have given everything to you.

Romans 14:1–23

Now accept one who is weak in faith, but not for disputes over opinions. — read the full passage →

1 Timothy 4:1–5

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 →

Genesis 1:29

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.

Acts 15:28–29

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 →

Romans 12:1–2

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 →

Deuteronomy 14:1–29

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 →

Acts 2:1–47

Now when the day of Pentecost had come, they were all with one accord in one place. — read the full passage →

Genesis 3:2–6

The woman said to the serpent, “We may eat fruit from the trees of the garden, — read the full passage →

Romans 14:21

It is good to not eat meat, drink wine, nor do anything by which your brother stumbles, is offended, or is made weak.

Romans 14:2

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

Galatians 6:7

Don’t be deceived. God is not mocked, for whatever a man sows, that he will also reap.

Isaiah 66:15–17

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 →

3 John 1:2

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

Colossians 2:16–17

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 →

Mark 7:19

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

Daniel 1:15

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.

Daniel 1:11–15

Then Daniel said to the steward whom the prince of the eunuchs had appointed over Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah: — read the full passage →

1 Timothy 4:3

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

Luke 12:22

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.

Leviticus 11:9

“‘These you may eat of all that are in the waters: whatever has fins and scales in the waters, in the seas, and in the rivers, that you may eat.

Genesis 9:3–4

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 →

Proverbs 11:28

He who trusts in his riches will fall, but the righteous shall flourish as the green leaf.

Acts 10:1–48

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

Mark 7:18–19

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 →

Matthew 6:25

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?

Acts 10:15

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

2 Timothy 3:16

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

John 6:35

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.

Matthew 15:32

Jesus summoned his disciples and said, “I have compassion on the multitude, because they continue with me now three days and have nothing to eat. I don’t want to send them away fasting, or they might faint on the way.”

1 Corinthians 10:25

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

Mark 7:1–37

Then the Pharisees, and some of the scribes gathered together to him, having come from Jerusalem. — read the full passage →

Matthew 6:27

“Which of you, by being anxious, can add one momentto his lifespan?

Matthew 5:1–48

Seeing the multitudes, he went up onto the mountain. When he had sat down, his disciples came to him. — read the full passage →

Ecclesiastes 9:10

Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with your might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in Sheol, where you are going.

Genesis 8:20

Noah built an altar to Yahweh, and took of every clean animal, and of every clean bird, and offered burnt offerings on the altar.

Acts 10:9–16

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 →

Matthew 4:4

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.’”

Leviticus 11:44

For I am Yahweh your God. Sanctify yourselves therefore, and be holy; for I am holy: neither shall you defile yourselves with any kind of creeping thing that moves on the earth.

Leviticus 7:26–27

You shall not eat any blood, whether it is of bird or of animal, in any of your dwellings. — read the full passage →

Revelation 1:1

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,

1 Timothy 4:4

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

1 Timothy 4:1

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,

Acts 10:28

He said to them, “You yourselves know how it is an unlawful thing for a man who is a Jew to join himself or come to one of another nation, but God has shown me that I shouldn’t call any man unholy or unclean.

Luke 15:23

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

Ecclesiastes 3:13

Also that every man should eat and drink, and enjoy good in all his labor, is the gift of God.

Genesis 9:3–5

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 →

Revelation 1:1–22:21

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, — read the full passage →

Colossians 2:16

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,

1 Corinthians 10:31

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

1 Corinthians 8:1–13

Now concerning things sacrificed to idols: We know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffs up, but love builds up. — read the full passage →

1 Corinthians 6:19–20

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 →

Romans 10:4

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

John 21:13

Then Jesus came and took the bread, gave it to them, and the fish likewise.

John 3:16

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.

Malachi 3:6

“For I, Yahweh, don’t change; therefore you, sons of Jacob, are not consumed.

Song of Solomon 1:1–8:14

The Song of songs, which is Solomon’s. Beloved — read the full passage →

Proverbs 23:2

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

Proverbs 14:23

In all hard work there is profit, but the talk of the lips leads only to poverty.

Psalms 145:15

The eyes of all wait for you. You give them their food in due season.

Judges 6:19

Gideon went in, and prepared a young goat, and unleavened cakes of an ephah of meal. He put the meat in a basket and he put the broth in a pot, and brought it out to him under the oak, and presented it.

Deuteronomy 8:3

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.

Leviticus 17:10

“‘Any man of the house of Israel, or of the strangers who live as foreigners among them, who eats any kind of blood, I will set my face against that soul who eats blood, and will cut him off from among his people.

Leviticus 3:17

“‘It shall be a perpetual statute throughout your generations in all your dwellings, that you shall eat neither fat nor blood.’”

1 John 3:4

Everyone who sins also commits lawlessness. Sin is lawlessness.

2 Peter 1:3

seeing that his divine power has granted to us all things that pertain to life and godliness, through the knowledge of him who called us by his own glory and virtue;

1 Timothy 6:8

But having food and clothing, we will be content with that.

Colossians 2:20

If you died with Christ from the elements of the world, why, as though living in the world, do you subject yourselves to ordinances,

Romans 14:3–23

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 →

Acts 10:11–28

He saw heaven opened and a certain container descending to him, like a great sheet let down by four corners on the earth, — read the full passage →

John 6:27

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.”

Mark 7:2

Now when they saw some of his disciples eating bread with defiled, that is, unwashed, hands, they found fault.

Matthew 7:1–29

“Don’t judge, so that you won’t be judged. — read the full passage →

Matthew 6:33

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

Matthew 6:31–33

“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 →

Matthew 6:26

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?

Proverbs 23:20–21

Don’t be among ones drinking too much wine, or those who gorge themselves on meat: — read the full passage →

Genesis 18:6–8

Abraham hurried into the tent to Sarah, and said, “Quickly prepare three measures of fine meal, knead it, and make cakes.” — read the full passage →

Topical index adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0). Verse text: WEB.