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Food

 

1 Corinthians 10:31 ESV / 1,187 helpful votes

 

So, whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.

Genesis 1:29 ESV / 911 helpful votes

 

And God said, “Behold, I have given you every plant yielding seed that is on the face of all the earth, and every tree with seed in its fruit. You shall have them for food.

John 6:35 ESV / 836 helpful votes

 

Jesus said to them, “I am the bread of life; whoever comes to me shall not hunger, and whoever believes in me shall never thirst.

Genesis 9:3 ESV / 724 helpful votes

 

Every moving thing that lives shall be food for you. And as I gave you the green plants, I give you everything.

1 Corinthians 8:8 ESV / 594 helpful votes

 

Food will not commend us to God. We are no worse off if we do not eat, and no better off if we do.

Romans 14:1-23 ESV / 522 helpful votes

 

As for the one who is weak in faith, welcome him, but not to quarrel over opinions. One person believes he may eat anything, while the weak person eats only vegetables. Let not the one who eats despise the one who abstains, and let not the one who abstains pass judgment on the one who eats, for God has welcomed him. Who are you to pass judgment on the servant of another? It is before his own master that he stands or falls. And he will be upheld, for the Lord is able to make him stand. One person esteems one day as better than another, while another esteems all days alike. Each one should be fully convinced in his own mind. ...

Matthew 4:4 ESV / 491 helpful votes

 

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

1 Timothy 4:4-5 ESV / 456 helpful votes

 

For everything created by God is good, and nothing is to be rejected if it is received with thanksgiving, for it is made holy by the word of God and prayer.

Ecclesiastes 9:7 ESV / 438 helpful votes

 

Go, eat your bread with joy, and drink your wine with a merry heart, for God has already approved what you do.

John 6:27 ESV / 408 helpful votes

 

Do not labor for the food that perishes, but for the food that endures to eternal life, which the Son of Man will give to you. For on him God the Father has set his seal.”

Mark 7:14-23 ESV / 381 helpful votes

 

And he called the people to him again and said to them, “Hear me, all of you, and understand: There is nothing outside a person that by going into him can defile him, but the things that come out of a person are what defile him.” And when he had entered the house and left the people, his disciples asked him about the parable. And he said to them, “Then are you also without understanding? Do you not see that whatever goes into a person from outside cannot defile him, since it enters not his heart but his stomach, and is expelled?” (Thus he declared all foods clean.) ...

Proverbs 15:17 ESV / 356 helpful votes

 

Better is a dinner of herbs where love is than a fattened ox and hatred with it.

Matthew 6:25 ESV / 354 helpful votes

 

“Therefore I tell you, do not be anxious about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink, nor about your body, what you will put on. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothing?

Isaiah 1:19 ESV / 340 helpful votes

 

If you are willing and obedient, you shall eat the good of the land;

John 4:34 ESV / 314 helpful votes

 

Jesus said to them, “My food is to do the will of him who sent me and to accomplish his work.

Matthew 5:6 ESV / 308 helpful votes

 

“Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they shall be satisfied.

Psalm 104:15 ESV / 308 helpful votes

 

And wine to gladden the heart of man, oil to make his face shine and bread to strengthen man's heart.

Leviticus 11:1-47 ESV / 308 helpful votes

 

And the Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying to them, “Speak to the people of Israel, saying, These are the living things that you may eat among all the animals that are on the earth. Whatever parts the hoof and is cloven-footed and chews the cud, among the animals, you may eat. Nevertheless, among those that chew the cud or part the hoof, you shall not eat these: The camel, because it chews the cud but does not part the hoof, is unclean to you. And the rock badger, because it chews the cud but does not part the hoof, is unclean to you. ...

Psalm 136:25 ESV / 262 helpful votes

 

He who gives food to all flesh, for his steadfast love endures forever.

Proverbs 25:27 ESV / 258 helpful votes

 

It is not good to eat much honey, nor is it glorious to seek one's own glory.

Psalm 107:9 ESV / 234 helpful votes

 

For he satisfies the longing soul, and the hungry soul he fills with good things.

Genesis 1:30 ESV / 222 helpful votes

 

And to every beast of the earth and to every bird of the heavens and to everything that creeps on the earth, everything that has the breath of life, I have given every green plant for food.” And it was so.

2 Corinthians 9:10 ESV / 218 helpful votes

 

He who supplies seed to the sower and bread for food will supply and multiply your seed for sowing and increase the harvest of your righteousness.

Colossians 2:16-17 ESV / 212 helpful votes

 

Therefore let no one pass judgment on you in questions of food and drink, or with regard to a festival or a new moon or a Sabbath. These are a shadow of the things to come, but the substance belongs to Christ.

Proverbs 16:24 ESV / 208 helpful votes

 

Gracious words are like a honeycomb, sweetness to the soul and health to the body.

Malachi 3:10 ESV / 206 helpful votes

 

Bring the full tithe into the storehouse, that there may be food in my house. And thereby put me to the test, says the Lord of hosts, if I will not open the windows of heaven for you and pour down for you a blessing until there is no more need.

1 Peter 2:2 ESV / 204 helpful votes

 

Like newborn infants, long for the pure spiritual milk, that by it you may grow up into salvation—

Exodus 16:12 ESV / 194 helpful votes

 

“I have heard the grumbling of the people of Israel. Say to them, ‘At twilight you shall eat meat, and in the morning you shall be filled with bread. Then you shall know that I am the Lord your God.’”

Revelation 3:20 ESV / 188 helpful votes

 

Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and eat with him, and he with me.

Genesis 9:3-4 ESV / 188 helpful votes

 

Every moving thing that lives shall be food for you. And as I gave you the green plants, I give you everything. But you shall not eat flesh with its life, that is, its blood.

1 Corinthians 6:13 ESV / 182 helpful votes

 

“Food is meant for the stomach and the stomach for food”—and God will destroy both one and the other. The body is not meant for sexual immorality, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body.

Proverbs 27:7 ESV / 178 helpful votes

 

One who is full loathes honey, but to one who is hungry everything bitter is sweet.

1 Corinthians 6:19-20 ESV / 174 helpful votes

 

Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, whom you have from God? You are not your own, for you were bought with a price. So glorify God in your body.

John 6:51 ESV / 166 helpful votes

 

I am the living bread that came down from heaven. If anyone eats of this bread, he will live forever. And the bread that I will give for the life of the world is my flesh.”

Proverbs 25:16 ESV / 140 helpful votes

 

If you have found honey, eat only enough for you, lest you have your fill of it and vomit it.

Nehemiah 8:10 ESV / 140 helpful votes

 

Then he said to them, “Go your way. Eat the fat and drink sweet wine and send portions to anyone who has nothing ready, for this day is holy to our Lord. And do not be grieved, for the joy of the Lord is your strength.”

1 Timothy 6:7-8 ESV / 138 helpful votes

 

For we brought nothing into the world, and we cannot take anything out of the world. But if we have food and clothing, with these we will be content.

Acts 2:46-47 ESV / 138 helpful votes

 

And day by day, attending the temple together and breaking bread in their homes, they received their food with glad and generous hearts, praising God and having favor with all the people. And the Lord added to their number day by day those who were being saved.

Luke 9:16-17 ESV / 138 helpful votes

 

And taking the five loaves and the two fish, he looked up to heaven and said a blessing over them. Then he broke the loaves and gave them to the disciples to set before the crowd. And they all ate and were satisfied. And what was left over was picked up, twelve baskets of broken pieces.

Proverbs 23:2 ESV / 138 helpful votes

 

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

Proverbs 11:25 ESV / 138 helpful votes

 

Whoever brings blessing will be enriched, and one who waters will himself be watered.

Genesis 43:11 ESV / 132 helpful votes

 

Then their father Israel said to them, “If it must be so, then do this: take some of the choice fruits of the land in your bags, and carry a present down to the man, a little balm and a little honey, gum, myrrh, pistachio nuts, and almonds.

3 John 1:2 ESV / 128 helpful votes

 

Beloved, I pray that all may go well with you and that you may be in good health, as it goes well with your soul.

Ezekiel 4:9 ESV / 116 helpful votes

 

“And you, take wheat and barley, beans and lentils, millet and emmer, and put them into a single vessel and make your bread from them. During the number of days that you lie on your side, 390 days, you shall eat it.

Proverbs 23:20-21 ESV / 116 helpful votes

 

Be not among drunkards or among gluttonous eaters of meat, for the drunkard and the glutton will come to poverty, and slumber will clothe them with rags.

1 Corinthians 6:12 ESV / 111 helpful votes

 

“All things are lawful for me,” but not all things are helpful. “All things are lawful for me,” but I will not be enslaved by anything.

2 Samuel 17:27-29 ESV / 111 helpful votes

 

When David came to Mahanaim, Shobi the son of Nahash from Rabbah of the Ammonites, and Machir the son of Ammiel from Lo-debar, and Barzillai the Gileadite from Rogelim, brought beds, basins, and earthen vessels, wheat, barley, flour, parched grain, beans and lentils, honey and curds and sheep and cheese from the herd, for David and the people with him to eat, for they said, “The people are hungry and weary and thirsty in the wilderness.”

Exodus 16:31 ESV / 111 helpful votes

 

Now the house of Israel called its name manna. It was like coriander seed, white, and the taste of it was like wafers made with honey.

Genesis 3:19 ESV / 111 helpful votes

 

By the sweat of your face you shall eat bread, till you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken; for you are dust, and to dust you shall return.”

Judges 14:8-9 ESV / 101 helpful votes

 

After some days he returned to take her. And he turned aside to see the carcass of the lion, and behold, there was a swarm of bees in the body of the lion, and honey. He scraped it out into his hands and went on, eating as he went. And he came to his father and mother and gave some to them, and they ate. But he did not tell them that he had scraped the honey from the carcass of the lion.

Deuteronomy 14:1-29 ESV / 99 helpful votes

 

“You are the sons of the Lord your God. You shall not cut yourselves or make any baldness on your foreheads for the dead. For you are a people holy to the Lord your God, and the Lord has chosen you to be a people for his treasured possession, out of all the peoples who are on the face of the earth. “You shall not eat any abomination. These are the animals you may eat: the ox, the sheep, the goat, the deer, the gazelle, the roebuck, the wild goat, the ibex, the antelope, and the mountain sheep. ...

Job 10:10 ESV / 94 helpful votes

 

Did you not pour me out like milk and curdle me like cheese?

Job 6:6 ESV / 94 helpful votes

 

Can that which is tasteless be eaten without salt, or is there any taste in the juice of the mallow?

Luke 15:23 ESV / 91 helpful votes

 

And bring the fattened calf and kill it, and let us eat and celebrate.

Genesis 19:3 ESV / 91 helpful votes

 

But he pressed them strongly; so they turned aside to him and entered his house. And he made them a feast and baked unleavened bread, and they ate.

Matthew 14:19 ESV / 86 helpful votes

 

Then he ordered the crowds to sit down on the grass, and taking the five loaves and the two fish, he looked up to heaven and said a blessing. Then he broke the loaves and gave them to the disciples, and the disciples gave them to the crowds.

Daniel 1:1-21 ESV / 86 helpful votes

 

In the third year of the reign of Jehoiakim king of Judah, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came to Jerusalem and besieged it. And the Lord gave Jehoiakim king of Judah into his hand, with some of the vessels of the house of God. And he brought them to the land of Shinar, to the house of his god, and placed the vessels in the treasury of his god. Then the king commanded Ashpenaz, his chief eunuch, to bring some of the people of Israel, both of the royal family and of the nobility, youths without blemish, of good appearance and skillful in all wisdom, endowed with knowledge, understanding learning, and competent to stand in the king's palace, and to teach them the literature and language of the Chaldeans. The king assigned them a daily portion of the food that the king ate, and of the wine that he drank. They were to be educated for three years, and at the end of that time they were to stand before the king. ...

Ezra 6:9 ESV / 86 helpful votes

 

And whatever is needed—bulls, rams, or sheep for burnt offerings to the God of heaven, wheat, salt, wine, or oil, as the priests at Jerusalem require—let that be given to them day by day without fail,

Revelation 11:1-19 ESV / 81 helpful votes

 

Then I was given a measuring rod like a staff, and I was told, “Rise and measure the temple of God and the altar and those who worship there, but do not measure the court outside the temple; leave that out, for it is given over to the nations, and they will trample the holy city for forty-two months. And I will grant authority to my two witnesses, and they will prophesy for 1,260 days, clothed in sackcloth.” These are the two olive trees and the two lampstands that stand before the Lord of the earth. And if anyone would harm them, fire pours from their mouth and consumes their foes. If anyone would harm them, this is how he is doomed to be killed. ...

Numbers 17:8 ESV / 81 helpful votes

 

On the next day Moses went into the tent of the testimony, and behold, the staff of Aaron for the house of Levi had sprouted and put forth buds and produced blossoms, and it bore ripe almonds.

Acts 14:17 ESV / 78 helpful votes

 

Yet he did not leave himself without witness, for he did good by giving you rains from heaven and fruitful seasons, satisfying your hearts with food and gladness.”

Matthew 3:4 ESV / 78 helpful votes

 

Now John wore a garment of camel's hair and a leather belt around his waist, and his food was locusts and wild honey.

Isaiah 65:3-6 ESV / 78 helpful votes

 

A people who provoke me to my face continually, sacrificing in gardens and making offerings on bricks; who sit in tombs, and spend the night in secret places; who eat pig's flesh, and broth of tainted meat is in their vessels; who say, “Keep to yourself, do not come near me, for I am too holy for you.” These are a smoke in my nostrils, a fire that burns all the day. Behold, it is written before me: “I will not keep silent, but I will repay; I will indeed repay into their bosom

Luke 11:12 ESV / 74 helpful votes

 

Or if he asks for an egg, will give him a scorpion?

Job 23:12 ESV / 74 helpful votes

 

I have not departed from the commandment of his lips; I have treasured the words of his mouth more than my portion of food.

Nehemiah 13:15 ESV / 74 helpful votes

 

In those days I saw in Judah people treading winepresses on the Sabbath, and bringing in heaps of grain and loading them on donkeys, and also wine, grapes, figs, and all kinds of loads, which they brought into Jerusalem on the Sabbath day. And I warned them on the day when they sold food.

Revelation 6:2-6 ESV / 64 helpful votes

 

And I looked, and behold, a white horse! And its rider had a bow, and a crown was given to him, and he came out conquering, and to conquer. When he opened the second seal, I heard the second living creature say, “Come!” And out came another horse, bright red. Its rider was permitted to take peace from the earth, so that people should slay one another, and he was given a great sword. When he opened the third seal, I heard the third living creature say, “Come!” And I looked, and behold, a black horse! And its rider had a pair of scales in his hand. And I heard what seemed to be a voice in the midst of the four living creatures, saying, “A quart of wheat for a denarius, and three quarts of barley for a denarius, and do not harm the oil and wine!”

1 Corinthians 10:20-21 ESV / 64 helpful votes

 

No, I imply that what pagans sacrifice they offer to demons and not to God. I do not want you to be participants with demons. You cannot drink the cup of the Lord and the cup of demons. You cannot partake of the table of the Lord and the table of demons.