19 Bible Verses about Eating Meat

wherefore if my eating makes my brother offend, I will never eat flesh rather than make my brother offend.

it is better to abstain from flesh, and wine, and every thing whereby your brother is in danger of falling off.

meat does not recommend us to God: if we eat, we are not the better men; if we don't eat, we are not the worse.

whatever is sold in the shambles, that eat, without making any scrupulous enquiry.

for one makes no difficulty of eating all sorts of food: another is so scrupulous, he lives upon herbs.

let not him that eateth, despise him that does not; and let not him that refrains, pass censure on him that eateth: for God hath received him.

he that observes a day, and he that obobserves it not, act both from a sense of duty. he that eats, consisiders it as the bounty of his Lord, for he giveth God thanks; and he that forbeareth to eat, considers his forbearance as enjoined by his Lord, and giveth God thanks for the rest.

do not for such a thing as meat, pull down what God has been raising. all things indeed are pure; but they become evil to him who by eating giveth offence.

but if any man say to you, this is offered in sacrifice to an idol, don't eat, for his sake that mentioned it, and for conscience sake.

Let no man therefore condemn you for meats or drinks, or in respect of feasts, or new moons, or sabbaths:

for if any man see you who have a just notion of idols, sitting at table in their temple, will not the person who is wrong in his notions be incouraged to eat what is offered to idols, tho' contrary to his own opinion?

As to the eating therefore of what is offered in sacrifice to idols, we know that the heathen deities have no real existence, and that there is but one God.

but he answered them, I have meat to eat that ye know not of:

but Peter said, not so, Lord; for I have never eaten any thing that is common or unclean.

for he that makes a difference, is self-condemn'd, if he eats against his own persuasion: for every action of that kind is sin .

that they abstain from the pollutions of idols, from fornication, from animals that are strangled, and from their blood.

for though by this time you ought to be capable of teaching others, you want to be instructed anew in the first principles of the divine oracles; and are in such a state as to stand in need of milk, rather than of solid nourishment.

interdicting marriage; and the use of animal food; which God created for the repast of the faithful, who embrace the truth with thankfulness.

for the gospel dispensation does not consist in meats and drinks, but in piety and peace, and spiritual joy.