49 Bible Verses about Eating Meat

Wherefore if meat be a fall-trap to my brother, I will eat no flesh for ever, that I may not be a fall-trap to my brother.

It is right not to eat meat, nor drink wine, nor do anything in which thy brother stumbles, or is offended, or is weak.

And ye shall eat the flesh of your sons, and the flesh of your daughters shall ye eat.

But meat does not commend us to God; neither if we should not eat do we come short; nor if we should eat have we an advantage.

Everything sold in the shambles eat, making no inquiry for conscience sake.

One man is assured that he may eat all things; but the weak eats herbs.

Let not him that eats make little of him that eats not; and let not him that eats not judge him that eats: for God has received him.

And if it be eaten at all on the third day, it is an unclean thing: it shall not be accepted.

He that regards the day, regards it to the Lord. And he that eats, eats to the Lord, for he gives God thanks; and he that does not eat, it is to the Lord he does not eat, and gives God thanks.

Every moving thing that liveth shall be food for you: as the green herb I give you everything.

For the sake of meat do not destroy the work of God. All things indeed are pure; but it is evil to that man who eats while stumbling in doing so.

Prove thy servants, I beseech thee, ten days; and let them give us pulse to eat, and water to drink;

But if any one say to you, This is offered to holy purposes, do not eat, for his sake that pointed it out, and conscience sake;

Only, the flesh with its life, its blood, ye shall not eat.

Of a dead carcase and what is torn shall he not eat, to make himself unclean therewith: I am Jehovah.

Let none therefore judge you in meat or in drink, or in matter of feast, or new moon, or sabbaths,

They that sanctify themselves, and purify themselves in the gardens behind one in the midst; that eat swine's flesh, and the abomination, and the mouse, shall perish together, saith Jehovah.

Only, be sure that thou eat not the blood; for the blood is the life, and thou mayest not eat the life with the flesh;

Only, ye shall not eat the blood; ye shall pour it upon the earth as water.

For if any one see thee, who hast knowledge, sitting at table in an idol-house, shall not his conscience, he being weak, be emboldened to eat the things sacrificed to the idol?

Of their flesh shall ye not eat, and their carcase shall ye not touch: they shall be unclean unto you.

Thus saith Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel: Add your burnt-offerings to your sacrifices, and eat the flesh.

Whatever goeth on the belly, and whatever goeth on all four, and all that have a great many feet, of every manner of crawling thing which crawleth on the earth these ye shall not eat; for they are an abomination.

Whence should I have flesh to give unto all this people? for they weep unto me, saying, Give us flesh that we may eat!

When Jehovah thy God shall enlarge thy border, as he promised thee, and thou say, I will eat flesh, because thy soul longeth to eat flesh, thou mayest eat flesh, according to all the desire of thy soul.

concerning then the eating of things sacrificed to idols, we know that an idol is nothing in the world, and that there is no other God save one.

But he said to them, I have food to eat which ye do not know.

And they shall eat the flesh in that night, roast with fire, and unleavened bread; with bitter herbs shall they eat it.

And at the end of ten days their countenances appeared fairer and were fatter in flesh than all the youths that ate of the king's delicate food.

Nevertheless, according to all the desire of thy soul thou mayest slay and eat flesh in all thy gates, according to the blessing of Jehovah thy God which he hath given thee: the unclean and the clean may eat thereof, as of the gazelle, and the hart.

Therefore say unto them, Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Ye eat with the blood, and lift up your eyes toward your idols, and shed blood; and shall ye possess the land?

And Peter said, In no wise, Lord; for I have never eaten anything common or unclean.

I ate no pleasant bread, neither came flesh nor wine into my mouth, neither did I anoint myself at all, till three full weeks were fulfilled.

These are the beasts which ye shall eat: the ox, the sheep, and the goat;

But he that doubts, if he eat, is condemned; because it is not of faith; but whatever is not of faith is sin.

And unto the people shalt thou say, Hallow yourselves for to-morrow, and ye shall eat flesh; for ye have wept in the ears of Jehovah, saying, Who will give us flesh to eat? for it was well with us in Egypt; and Jehovah will give you flesh, and ye shall eat.

and thou shalt offer thy burnt-offerings, the flesh and the blood, upon the altar of Jehovah thy God; and the blood of thy sacrifices shall be poured out upon the altar of Jehovah thy God, and the flesh shalt thou eat.

but to write to them to abstain from pollutions of idols, and from fornication, and from what is strangled, and from blood.

And David hid himself in the field; and it was the new moon, and the king sat at table to eat.

For when for the time ye ought to be teachers, ye have again need that one should teach you what are the elements of the beginning of the oracles of God, and are become such as have need of milk, and not of solid food.

forbidding to marry, bidding to abstain from meats, which God has created for receiving with thanksgiving for them who are faithful and know the truth.

And they told Saul, saying, Behold, the people sin against Jehovah, in that they eat with the blood. And he said, Ye have acted perversely: roll me now a great stone.

and for the beasts that are in thy land: all the produce thereof shall be for food.

These shall ye eat of all that are in the waters: whatever hath fins and scales in waters, in seas and in rivers, these shall ye eat;

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

Ye shall eat nothing with the blood. Ye shall not practise enchantment, nor use auguries.

Ye shall eat none of it raw, nor boiled at all with water, but roast with fire; its head with its legs and with its in-wards.

who sit down among the graves, and lodge in the secret places; who eat swine's flesh, and broth of abominable things is in their vessels;

And Daniel purposed in his heart that he would not pollute himself with the king's delicate food, nor with the wine which he drank; and he requested of the prince of the eunuchs that he might not have to pollute himself.