60 Bible Verses about After Eating

Romans 14:1-23 ESV / 7 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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. ...

Leviticus 11:1-47 ESV / 7 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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. ...

Genesis 1:29 ESV / 6 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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.

1 Corinthians 6:19-20 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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.

Proverbs 23:2 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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

Philippians 4:13 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

I can do all things through him who strengthens me.

Galatians 5:22-23 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law.

1 Corinthians 10:31 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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

Acts 10:15 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And the voice came to him again a second time, “What God has made clean, do not call common.”

Proverbs 23:21 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

For the drunkard and the glutton will come to poverty, and slumber will clothe them with rags.

Deuteronomy 21:20 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And they shall say to the elders of his city, ‘This our son is stubborn and rebellious; he will not obey our voice; he is a glutton and a drunkard.’

Genesis 9:3 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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

2 Peter 1:5-7 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

For this very reason, make every effort to supplement your faith with virtue, and virtue with knowledge, and knowledge with self-control, and self-control with steadfastness, and steadfastness with godliness, and godliness with brotherly affection, and brotherly affection with love.

2 Timothy 3:1-9 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

But understand this, that in the last days there will come times of difficulty. For people will be lovers of self, lovers of money, proud, arrogant, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, heartless, unappeasable, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not loving good, treacherous, reckless, swollen with conceit, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, having the appearance of godliness, but denying its power. Avoid such people. ...

Ephesians 2:15 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

By abolishing the law of commandments expressed in ordinances, that he might create in himself one new man in place of the two, so making peace,

Galatians 3:24-26 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

So then, the law was our guardian until Christ came, in order that we might be justified by faith. But now that faith has come, we are no longer under a guardian, for in Christ Jesus you are all sons of God, through faith.

2 Corinthians 10:5 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

We destroy arguments and every lofty opinion raised against the knowledge of God, and take every thought captive to obey Christ,

1 Corinthians 8:8 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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 14:14 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

I know and am persuaded in the Lord Jesus that nothing is unclean in itself, but it is unclean for anyone who thinks it unclean.

Romans 10:4 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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

John 3:16-17 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.

Mark 7:19 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Since it enters not his heart but his stomach, and is expelled?” (Thus he declared all foods clean.)

Ecclesiastes 9:7 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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

Proverbs 23:20-21 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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.

Genesis 9:3-4 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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.

Genesis 1:29-30 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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. 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.

3 John 1:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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.

1 Timothy 4:8 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

For while bodily training is of some value, godliness is of value in every way, as it holds promise for the present life and also for the life to come.

1 Timothy 4:1-5 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Now the Spirit expressly says that in later times some will depart from the faith by devoting themselves to deceitful spirits and teachings of demons, through the insincerity of liars whose consciences are seared, who forbid marriage and require abstinence from foods that God created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and know the truth. 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.

1 Thessalonians 4:13-18 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

But we do not want you to be uninformed, brothers, about those who are asleep, that you may not grieve as others do who have no hope. For since we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so, through Jesus, God will bring with him those who have fallen asleep. For this we declare to you by a word from the Lord, that we who are alive, who are left until the coming of the Lord, will not precede those who have fallen asleep. For the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a cry of command, with the voice of an archangel, and with the sound of the trumpet of God. And the dead in Christ will rise first. Then we who are alive, who are left, will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air, and so we will always be with the Lord. ...

Philippians 3:19 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Their end is destruction, their god is their belly, and they glory in their shame, with minds set on earthly things.

Ephesians 5:18 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And do not get drunk with wine, for that is debauchery, but be filled with the Spirit,

1 Corinthians 15:26 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

The last enemy to be destroyed is death.

1 Corinthians 10:25 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Eat whatever is sold in the meat market without raising any question on the ground of conscience.

1 Corinthians 10:23 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

“All things are lawful,” but not all things are helpful. “All things are lawful,” but not all things build up.

1 Corinthians 9:27 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

But I discipline my body and keep it under control, lest after preaching to others I myself should be disqualified.

1 Corinthians 8:13 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Therefore, if food makes my brother stumble, I will never eat meat, lest I make my brother stumble.

1 Corinthians 3:16-17 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Do you not know that you are God's temple and that God's Spirit dwells in you? If anyone destroys God's temple, God will destroy him. For God's temple is holy, and you are that temple.

Romans 12:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.

Acts 10:9-16 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

The next day, as they were on their journey and approaching the city, Peter went up on the housetop about the sixth hour to pray. And he became hungry and wanted something to eat, but while they were preparing it, he fell into a trance and saw the heavens opened and something like a great sheet descending, being let down by its four corners upon the earth. In it were all kinds of animals and reptiles and birds of the air. And there came a voice to him: “Rise, Peter; kill and eat.” ...

Acts 10:1-48 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

At Caesarea there was a man named Cornelius, a centurion of what was known as the Italian Cohort, a devout man who feared God with all his household, gave alms generously to the people, and prayed continually to God. About the ninth hour of the day he saw clearly in a vision an angel of God come in and say to him, “Cornelius.” And he stared at him in terror and said, “What is it, Lord?” And he said to him, “Your prayers and your alms have ascended as a memorial before God. And now send men to Joppa and bring one Simon who is called Peter. ...

John 6:35 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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.

Luke 16:19-31 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

“There was a rich man who was clothed in purple and fine linen and who feasted sumptuously every day. And at his gate was laid a poor man named Lazarus, covered with sores, who desired to be fed with what fell from the rich man's table. Moreover, even the dogs came and licked his sores. The poor man died and was carried by the angels to Abraham's side. The rich man also died and was buried, and in Hades, being in torment, he lifted up his eyes and saw Abraham far off and Lazarus at his side. ...

Mark 7:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Matthew 25:31-46 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

“When the Son of Man comes in his glory, and all the angels with him, then he will sit on his glorious throne. Before him will be gathered all the nations, and he will separate people one from another as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats. And he will place the sheep on his right, but the goats on the left. Then the King will say to those on his right, ‘Come, you who are blessed by my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world. For I was hungry and you gave me food, I was thirsty and you gave me drink, I was a stranger and you welcomed me, ...

Matthew 15:11 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

It is not what goes into the mouth that defiles a person, but what comes out of the mouth; this defiles a person.”

Matthew 4:4 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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

Daniel 1:1-21 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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. ...

Ecclesiastes 10:17 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Happy are you, O land, when your king is the son of the nobility, and your princes feast at the proper time, for strength, and not for drunkenness!

Proverbs 25:27 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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

Proverbs 23:34 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

You will be like one who lies down in the midst of the sea, like one who lies on the top of a mast.

Proverbs 23:33 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Your eyes will see strange things, and your heart utter perverse things.

Proverbs 15:17 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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

Deuteronomy 14:1-29 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

“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. ...

Deuteronomy 8:8 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

A land of wheat and barley, of vines and fig trees and pomegranates, a land of olive trees and honey,

Leviticus 17:14 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

For the life of every creature is its blood: its blood is its life. Therefore I have said to the people of Israel, You shall not eat the blood of any creature, for the life of every creature is its blood. Whoever eats it shall be cut off.

Exodus 20:13 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

“You shall not murder.

Genesis 9:4 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

But you shall not eat flesh with its life, that is, its blood.

Genesis 3:21 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And the Lord God made for Adam and for his wife garments of skins and clothed them.

Genesis 1:30 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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.