19 Bible Verses about Eating Meat
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Wherefore, if food causes my brother to stumble, I will in no wise eat flesh forevermore; that I cause not my brother to stumble.
It is good, neither to eat flesh, nor to drink wine, nor to do anything whereby your brother stumbles.
But food will not commend us to God; neither, if we eat not, are we lacking; nor, if we eat, do we abound.
Whatsoever is sold in the market eat, asking no question because of conscience;
Let not him that eats despise him that eats not; and let not him that does not eat despise him that eats; for God received him.
He that regards the day regards it to the Lord; and he that eats eats to the Lord, for he gives thanks to God; and he that eats not, to the Lord he eats not, and gives thanks to God.
Do not, for the sake of food, overthrow the work of God. All things, indeed, are clean; but it is evil to him who eats with offense.
But, if anyone says to you, "This is the remains of an idol-sacrifice." eat it not, for his sake that showed it, and because of conscience:
Let no one, therefore, judge you in food, or in drink, or in respect of a feast, or a new moon, or sabbaths,
For, if anyone sees you, who have knowledge, reclining at table in an idol's temple, will not his conscience, if he is weak, be emboldened to eat the idol-sacrifices?
concerning, therefore, the eating of things sacrificed to idols, we know that an idol is nothing in the world, and that there is no God but One.
But Peter said, "By no means, Lord! because never at any time did I eat anything common or unclean."
And he who doubts is condemned, if he eat, because he eats not of faith; and all that is not of faith is sin.
but that we write to them to abstain from the pollutions of idols, and from fornication, and from anything strangled, and from blood;
For even when, on account of the time, ye ought to be teachers, ye again have need that some one teach you the first elements of the oracles of God, and have become such as have need of milk, and not of solid food;
forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain from foods, which God created for reception with thanksgiving by those who believe and have full knowledge of the truth.
for the Kingdom of God is not food and drink, but righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit.