21 Bible Verses about Eating

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Therefore you coming together, it is not to eat the Lord's supper: for each one takes his own supper in eating; and one is hungry, and another is drunken. For have you not houses in which to eat and to drink? or do you cast contempt on the church of God, and shame those not having? What do I say to you? Shall I praise you in this? I do not praise you.

For you yourselves know how it behooves you to imitate us; because we were not disorderly among you; neither did we eat bread with any one gratuitously, but with labor and toil, night and day working, that we might not burden any one of you: not because we have not the right, but in order that we may give ourselves an example to you, that you may imitate us.read more.
For indeed when we were with you, we proclaimed this to you, that if any one does not wish to work, let him not eat.

Therefore let no one judge you in meat, or in drink, or in the participation of a feast, or of the new moon, or of the sabbath: which things are a shadow of the things to come; but the body is of Christ.

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Eating » Admonitions concerning eating

Luke 12:22

And He spoke to His disciples, Therefore I say unto you, Be not solicitous for your soul, what you may eat; nor for your body, what you may put on.

1 Corinthians 10:25

Eat everything which is sold in market, asking no questions on account of conscience;

Eating » Reclining on couches

Luke 7:37-38

Behold, a woman who was a sinner, in the city, also having learned that He is dining in the house of the Pharisee, breaking an alabaster box of myrrh, and standing behind by His feet, weeping, began to moisten His feel with tears, and she wiped them with the hairs of her head, and she continued to copiously kiss His feet, and to anoint them with the myrrh.

John 13:25

And that one, falling toward the bosom of Jesus says to Him, Lord, who is he?

Eating » Favored guests served a double portion

Eating » The host acting as waiter

Eating » Ablutions before

Matthew 15:2

Wherefore do thy disciples transgress the traditions of the elders? for they do not wash their hands when they eat bread.

Eating » Sitting at table

Eating » Table used in

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Animals Eating

Matthew 13:4

And while he was sowing, some seeds fell by the wayside, and the fowls came and ate them up.

Animals Eating People

Revelation 19:17-18

And I saw one angel standing on the sun; and he cried with a great voice, saying to all the birds which fly in the midst of heaven, Come, gather yourselves to the great banquet of God;

Birds Eating

Matthew 13:4

And while he was sowing, some seeds fell by the wayside, and the fowls came and ate them up.

Eating Christ's Body

Mark 14:22

And they eating, Jesus having taken the bread, blessing it, broke, and gave it to them, and said, Take it: this is my body.

Eating Corpses

Revelation 19:17-18

And I saw one angel standing on the sun; and he cried with a great voice, saying to all the birds which fly in the midst of heaven, Come, gather yourselves to the great banquet of God;

Eating Disorders

1 Corinthians 6:19-20

Do you not know that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God? and you are not your own;

Eating Meat

1 Corinthians 8:13

If indeed meat causes my brother to stumble, I never eat any more meat, in order that I may not lay a stumblingblock in the way of my brother.

People Eating

John 4:31

Meanwhile His disciples were asking Him, saying, Master eat.

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